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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
The Disinformation Age They say this is the Information Age, but it may as well be called the Disinformation Age given the state of current affairs. This week, an angry mob stormed the US Capitol, whipped up for months, if not years, by...
Homepage update: from Hugo to Zola At the start of 2019, I launched a new incarnaton of homepage (yes, I still call it "homepage", it has a nice nostalgic touch to it of a time where people still bothered to create their own little...
SVKBD: Simple Virtual Keyboard This is a simple virtual keyboard, intended to be used in environments where no physical keyboard is available. This is a suckless tool and is not my original work, I simply extended this software with a...
Sxmo: Simple X Mobile Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the Pinephone. You control the UI...
SXMO: Simple X mobile - demo video on a pinephone Details shown in this video: Hardware: Pinephone 1.2 Environment: Sxmo Distribution: PostmarketOS Window Manager: dwm Terminal: st Virtual Keyboard: svkbd Browser: surf The above are...
Vocage Vocage is a minimalistic terminal-based vocabulary-learning tool. It presents flashcards using a spaced-repetition algorithm (e.g. Leitner); words you know well will be presented less and less frequently and words you have...
Sesdiff This is a small and fast command line tool and Rust library that reads a two-column tab separated input from standard input and computes the shortest edit script (Myers' diff algorithm) to go from the string in column A to the...
Break Free! Don't be a prisoner of your software platform! "An opinion piece on software, social media, and ethics", by Maarten van Gompel (proycon) I don't use Windows or macOS, I don't use Facebook or Instagram, I won't use WhatsApp,...
My PhD thesis Context as Linguistic Bridges has been released and is to be defended soon: Context as Linguistic Bridges is a study that focusses on the role of context information in machine translation, i.e. automated translation by...
Hanzigrid & Learning chinese characters based on visual similarity 大家好！ I've been trying to learn Mandarin Chinese for quite a while, following the vocabulary compiled for the HSK (汉语水平考试) tests. As every Chinese learner will surely...
GPS tracker integreren in home automation Ik heb de GPS tracker die o.a. verkocht wordt als Reptrek Minitrek aangeschaft om onze hond te kunnen tracken. In plaats van de standaard beschreven SeTracker2 software (Chinese closed-source app...
Labirinto Labirinto is a virtual laboratory portal, it makes a collection of software browseable and searchable for the end-user. Labirinto presents the software's metadata following the CodeMeta specification in an intuitive way and...
CodeMetaPy The goal of CodeMetaPy is to generate the JSON-LD file, codemeta.json containing software metadata describing a Python package. For more general information about the CodeMeta Project for defining software metadata, see...
I recently switched to the gruvbox colours and polybar. Distribution: Arch Linux WM: bspwm Bar: polybar Launcher: rofi Multiplexer: tmux Editor: neovim + gruvbox theme Browser: Firefox Terminal: urxvt + gruvbox theme Music player: mpd +...
The Shape of Things to Come From Battlestar Galactica, Composed by Bear McCreary. My performance is a bit sloppy here and there but I didn't want to do it over again ;)