Text repository on programming and art
June 06, 2026
In high school we had maatschappijleer, where we learned about our Dutch constitution and democracy and the role of media in it. I clearly remember lessons on the value of pluralism in your media consumption. The importance of informing yourself through variable sources, through different lenses, was key in these lessons.
June 01, 2026
LLMs are very strong tools but also have their weaknesses. One of these is drawing SVGs, Scalable Vector Graphics, vector drawings made via code.
May 27, 2026
In the last minutes of a Q&A during a session at AWS Summit Amsterdam 2026 with someone from Anthropic, I took the “stage” via the microphone to announce the upcoming fourth Claude meetup in Amsterdam. A bit of a bold move to draw some attention to my meetup, that’s true, but it led me to meet two very kind people working on a startup who were having a problem.
April 14, 2026
Always good to see mobile phones rise during your talk: it usually means your slide contains valuable, practical information. I noticed this whenever I showed my Claude Code configuration slide.
Claude Code offers many options; my setup strips away the ones I don’t need. Here I cover each setting, what it does, and why I changed it.
February 15, 2026
Have we reached the age of personal software? Have we come to the moment that writing code is democratized, similar to how photography became available for everyone with the introduction of the smart phone? Currently I build what I (think) I need, or just what I like to build.
December 30, 2025
The power of large language models is of course the ability to generate text. Text can be converted to speech. Why not make an app to practice spelling? In the Netherlands there’s the annual “Groot Dictee der Nederlandse Taal”, a recurring dictation contest happening since 1990. This post is about making a web app with Claude Code using Claude to generate the sentences of the dictation and a text-to-speech service (TTS) to have them spoken aloud. Afterwards, one can review their written result with the actual text used.
December 26, 2025
Yes! I organized the first Claude Code meetup in Amsterdam ever! Around fifty Claude Code enthusiasts came to an evening all about Claude Code and vibe coding: what can AI do for you when coding? We kicked off with a solid base for future meetups and I’m planning on the next one already!
September 02, 2025
By accident I came up with a pretty good resonance prompt today. A resonance prompt can be used as a get-to-know-the-model-quickly-prompt: a way to get a quick glance of its capabilities, not only formally but also creatively.