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Maarten van Gompel
My name is Maarten van Gompel, also known as proycon on the internet. Welcome to my homepage where I share some of my work and interests. I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with my boyfriend Hans and our dog Jaiko. I have a great passion for languages and technology, and especially those areas where they meet! I work as a research software engineer (just a fancy word for computer programmer) in the field of Natural Language Processing. I'm a unix enthusiast committed to open-source software and an advocate for more security, simplicity, privacy and decentralisation. I love learning languages, coding, reading (mostly science fiction), working on my home automation system, playing the piano, and walking our dog.
Latest Posts
Fiducia Consolabile This is my own composition. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA). A pure audio-only version is available here.
Text processing on the command line - sharing my tools Introduction I'm quite fond of the command-line and spend a larger chunk of my life in a terminal emulator than I dare admit. I try to embrace the unix philosophy of using tools that...
Do not Restrict Me! How copy protection (DRM) on e-books harms our freedom and what to do about it Part I: DRM Hell Like many people, I like reading books. My favourite genre is science fiction, but I also like the occasional gay romance...
Canto Ostinato - Simeon Ten Holt This is my own interpretation of (small part of) Simeon Ten Holt's wonderful composition "Canto Ostinato", famous for its repetitive nature.
There seems to be a bit of a hype going currently amongst bloggers where people post what their so-called "default apps" or mostly used applications are, apparently prompted by this podcast and Robb Knight's list . I see most of the...
Rant against centralising e-mail in big-tech silos, and breaking the internet in the process Universities and research institutes used to be at the forefront when it comes to development of the fundamental technologies that power the...
STAM: Stand-off Text Annotation Model STAM is a data model for stand-off text annotation. The underlying premise is that any information on a text is represented as an annotation. We define an annotation as any kind of remark,...
Todo.txt More: Efficiently managing your todo list and your time Introduction I tend to get fairly enthusiastic when it comes to lists, even more so when there's a chance to optimise my productivity. The end of the year is a time for...
This is a set of complementary extensions for todo.txt . I wrote an extensive [/posts/todo/](blog post about it) which should give a good impression of what it can do. The following extensions are implemented: more - Main entry point,...
Codemeta Harvester This is a harvester for software metadata. It actively attempts to detect and convert software metadata in source code repositories and converts this to a unified codemeta representation. The tool is implemented as a...
Analiticcl Analiticcl is an approximate string matching or fuzzy-matching system that can be used for spelling correction or text normalisation (such as post-OCR correction or post-HTR correction). Texts can be checked against a...
wvkbd: On-screen keyboard for wl-roots This project aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C. It is not my original work. The project was started by John Sullivan. I and...
Sxmo: Simple X mobile - A minimalist environment for Linux smartphones We presented Sxmo at AlpineConf 2021: Details shown in this video: Hardware: Pinephone 1.2 Environment: Sxmo Distribution: PostmarketOS, on top of Alpine Linux Window...
Clickclack Clickclack is a simple haptic feedback and audio feedback tool. It does nothing more than emulate the clickclack sound and vibration when pressing keys. This tools reads from standard input and emits a vibration and/or a sound...
Een antwoord op corona-skepsis Inleiding We zitten midden in een pandemie met ongekende maatregelen die de meeste van ons in het westen nog nooit gezien hebben. Het coronavirus en alle maatregelen zorgen begrijpelijkerwijs wereldwijd...