The small city of Apeldoorn is home to one of the most successful Dutch insurance companies: Centraal Beheer. The company built a reputation creating tv advertisements that prove in 30 to 60-second the importance of being insured. In each ad, some kind of disaster looms (but is rarely shown) and the historical slogan reminds viewers …
Tag: macro
…and deep work
In the previous post I described my personal history of regular increments of RAM in my working computers with the notable exceptions of the transitions Desktop->Laptop and Laptop->Handheld and how those transitions allowed me to appreciate a brand new type of productivity. But what does it mean to use a very low memory device on a daily …
Shallow RAM…
The first computer I played with, in the late 80s, was a Commodore 64 that came with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. Early in the 90s, I was lucky enough to upgrade to a Commodore Amiga, which was a bounce in capabilities the likely of which I rarely saw ever since. The Amiga came with half …
Great quotes from Leonardo
From “A Treatise On Painting”, Leonardo dispenses wisdom applicable to all Makers out there. …
Working from a Nvidia Shield K1 Tablet
Even if the dream to have an Ubuntu phone fizzled out last April, my hopes to keep on miniaturizing my work machine are as lively as ever. After spending a decade working on Desktop computers and a decade spent on Laptops, I think the time is right for another paradigm shift. It is with these …
A French croissant recipe that will work
French croissants are tough to master. The other day I was at my favorite pizza place, discussing with the pizza man the science of dough preparation. I casually mentioned that I was finally satisfied with my croissant-dough and the guy looked at me in disbelief. “Making pizza dough is a walk in the park compared …
Suggestions for a better startup incubator application
Nine practical suggestions to improve your chances of being accepted at that fancy startup incubator. …
On Brutalist Design
A few days ago a journalist for net magazine asked me what I thought about Brutalism in web design, perhaps after finding my project site listed on BrutalistWebsites.com. He was kind enough to publish a portion of the interview on the magazine, but for the sake of completeness, I am publishing it here fully. …
Retro-gaming: not just nostalgia
In which I rant about the reasons that make retro-gaming (and especially Adventure Games) fascinating and relevant today. …
Fun with Delaunay
In which you too can Delaunize your picture with a simple editor and export it as vectors. …