Let's learn something new for the 勉強会ジャム2024 // Study Buddy Jam 2024!

This post is an edited and expanded version of a now-mangled Mastodon thread. ContentsPlatforms Are Competitions...and We're LosingWin ConditionYou Do It To Yourself, And That's What Really HurtsGroundhog DayReboot Some in the JavaScript community imagine that I harbour an irrational dislike of their tools when, in...

My first task is to model tans, be able to draw tans to the screen, and create hard-coded (as in: place tans with set coordinates on the screen) configurations. In this explorative phase, I am using the p5.js web editor and you can tinker with my code. I think we need the following information to properly describe a...

Now that we’re increasingly concerned about the dominance of ‘big tech’, Open Source is often mentioned as an alternative, especially since our governments are carrying out a Total Migration to Microsoft. This is the English version of this Dutch piece. In Dutch we say you can’t compare apples and pears, but that’s...

Exactly one year ago, I was in the midst of my biggest adventure so far. For the first time ever in my life, I was living on my own for a month, in a foreign place, in a foreign country: Seoul, in South Korea. These past few days, I’ve looked through photos from this time with a warming feeling of nostalgia. And It...

The forecast this Saturday looked encouraging, and Flighradar24 promised a rare visitor in our neck of the woods. So I took a bus to NUE after more than a month since my last visit there. The weather didn't disappoint: it was sunny and fairly warm. The rare visitor Boeing 737-800 from Mavi Gök Airlines arrived...