Life & thoughts
Docblock.dev is magical
I started working on Docblock. Which is a notes app + MCP, so a place where you and your agents work together without being forced to think in a…
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Thinking out loud.
Experiments, opinions, useful discoveries, and the occasional detour. All the things I thought were worth writing down.
Life & thoughts
Everyone is an analyst*
*= They feel like one. No in the day and age of AI everyone that is using one feels like they need access to data to "analyse" the data. Why not have…
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AI
Grok Bot for Home Assistant with their MCP
A week ago I started using Grok Bot for some hobby projects and found out that there's a Home Assistant MCP from the Open Source community. And wow:…
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AI
Watermarking AI output helps AI Companies
I fully understand why AI companies comply with the EU to watermark AI-generated content. This makes it a lot easier for them to train on human-made…
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Life & thoughts
Avoid LuxFlat in Luxembourg
Their apartments are not cleaned properly, contain bed bugs and their service is basically non-existent. We tried reaching out for service, but that's…
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AI
Code was carved in stone, it now is clay but will become water.
The title says it all. Before the era of agentic-programming software had to be designed so it could be not touched for a very long time. It was carved…
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Life & thoughts
Passion in the Age of AI
A quick note before we start. I wrote this by hand, based on a voice note I recorded while driving home from a colleague. I used AI — Opus 4.8 on…
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AI
Claude's voice mode is awesome!
Since the release of GPT's proper voice mode, where it sighs and such, I've been using voice agents for ideating and learning more. Recently, Anthropic…
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Hardware
Properly* setting up Immich on an Arm-Based UGREEN NAS which can use the NPU!
A note in advance: This is tested on the ARM variants of the UGREEN Nas. I currently have the UGREEN DH4300 Plus and I assume this works on the two bay…
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Life & thoughts
OpenClaw doesn't feel like it's for me yet
For the past few days, I've been playing with OpenClaw (Formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) and it's kinda been a bummer. The UI of the admin is one…
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AI
MiniMax M2.1 still beats Kimi K2.5
Even if Kimi is better on BenchMarks, MiniMax seems to be a lot better in backend code in the wild. Our codebase is well over 500k lines of code and…
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AI
Backend Git Bisect with an Agent
Today I committed a few "wip" commits and during one of those commits I broke some code and caused tests to fail. I got curious and wanted to see if an…
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AI
Qwen's response to Grok Code 1 Fast?
Grok Code 1 Fast has been a smash hit since it's launch, mainly because it was a free model with a peak of 240B tokens on one day: This is the only…
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AI
Kilo's new CLI is here!
A week ago, I was setting up the Kilo CLI on one of the laptops of a colleague and we saw something surprisingly happen: the new version of Kilo's CLI…
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Life & thoughts
How I trained for my HYROX
The time I got was in duo's open ~1:11 and I hope you can get that too by following this workout regime. For the cardio I ran one time per week, 6km/s…
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Health
My Arm Workout Routine
Here's the breakdown of my upper body session that I'm loving these days. I've been tweaking this workout for the past 3 years and the final iterations…
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AI
My favorite model: Gemini 3 Flash
It's a fairly affordable model but it has a lot of power. It's capable of generating wonderful UI like this in one shot: The model is in the top of…
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Hardware
The Ricoh GR IV is awesome
the quality of the pictures that roll out of the machine. I'm no photographer nor an expert on "what is a good image" -> this is my first real camera…
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Life & thoughts
Now available in more languages
Thanks to the work of Gerard Kanters with his AI Translate plugin, the website is now available in a few more languages. It's currently set to…
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AI
The migration to OpenRouter
A few months ago we opted to use OpenRouter at the company I work for. And moving to it was one of the best decisions we've made for our AI…
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AI
Kimi K2.5 is out!
And I'm absolutely loving it's behaviour! Currently using it in Kilo and it's a good model. It's not that fast yet, but that's mainly a provider issue…
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Giving back
My donation plan for 2026
Last year, I donated about €770. My goal this year is: donate one thousand euro's to good causes which translates roughly 83,33 per month. I originally…
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AI
You don't need the best model
When people work with AI, they always opt for "the best model" hen people work with AI, they always opt for "the best model" without having thought…
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AI
Thinking Backwards: How to Write Better AI Prompts
I've discovered something fundamental that applies far beyond just one domain: the way you interact with AI mirrors the way you should approach…
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AI
GPT-OSS-120B is a wonderful model
Lately, I've been experimenting more and more with open-weight models and I think GPT-OSS-120B just nails it: it's fast, powerful and it listens quite…
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Self-hosting
Saving on subscription costs by using OpenWebUI
For the past few years, I've paid for Perplexity Pro and ChatGPT (and sometimes even Claude) at the same time. (And for those already typing furiously:…
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Software
Kilo's Cloud Agent is awesome
A few weeks ago it was buggy and rarely finished the job. Now, it actually implements what you want and works nice. I personally like to work with the…
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Giving back
In 2025 I donated at least €769,99 to good causes
In 2024 I started with donating regularly with the mindset: "If I see an ad for a good cause that speaks to me, I donate". I told this to my nephew who…
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AI
So, Ministral tried to generate SQL
cross some some strange model behaviour. In one of the applications that I work on we have title generation for the chats, just like all AI apps that…
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Life & thoughts
Using Tidal or YouTube Music? Get Music Presence!
Music Presence is a simple app for Tidal users that allows them to share the song they are listening in realtime on Discord (and soon Scrobble to…
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Life & thoughts
OpenAI Codex is kinda awesome
But not the CLI... I really don't like that one. For the past few weeks I've been using the web version of GPT Codex. It's kinda awesome! It does…
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Health
1000 days of Whoop
It’s now been 1000 days since I first strapped a Whoop onto my wrist, and what a journey it’s been. In that time, I’ve learned to push myself far…
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Food
My rolled oat breakfast that lowered my cholesterol
It's a simple recipe with a lot of great ingredients for your body. It doesn't spike my blood sugar (yes, I tested this recipe thoroughly with an…
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Companies
I wish the NEO robot was real
The first time I watched the video, it felt so magical. It felt like the future was here and we're finally seeing AI mixing into "real life". But…
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Software
Cursor 2.0 is a step in the right direction
For the past few years, I've been thinking about the future of IDE's when combined with Agentic AI and I think Cursor made a great step in the right…
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Health
My supplement stack for sleep
Before we start a disclaimer: I'm not a doctor nor am I advising you to copy what I say in this article without: firstly doing your own research and/or…
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