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Sticky PostWelcome to my website. Here‘s some info about me. I write books and software. If you would like to use any of my work, please include a source attribution and let me know. Thanks! My second novel Het verbetertraject has… Continue Reading →
After doing my talk about Libiry, it is now time to clean up after myself. Not only my house has exploded recently, digitally some rearranging is wise too. Here are some screenshots I collected in Nostr: Claude likes to parrot… Continue Reading →
My app Libiry is starting to take shape. At the PKM Summit 2026 I gave a talk, and I received some welcome feedback on it. To get even more feedback I opened a topic on Reddit: What should the Libiry… Continue Reading →
Below you find a few blog posts I wrote during the seven years I was the organizer of Girl Geek Dinner in Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Eindhoven. You can find more about Girl Geek Dinner Netherlands at www.girlgeekdinner.nl.
On May 29th 2014 we had our 17th Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinner in collaboration with Hack In The Box. Jenn Lesser and Christine Abernathy from Facebook talked about their career paths and what triggered their interest in programming (we got… Continue Reading →
On November 26th 2013, we had our 16th Amsterdam Girl Geek Dinner. Karina van Dalen-Oskam showed us the link between literary science and computation. This territory is for a large part unmined. Quality reading is still the leading method for… Continue Reading →
On the 5th of September 2012 Leora Rosner said that when she’d decided she was going to change the world, her first plan was to rob a bank. Plan B was to start locally by greening the rooftops of Amsterdam…. Continue Reading →
On the 18th of February of 2010 Karin Spaink was our guest. And we were very happy to have her! By the month our privacy becomes more endangered. So many things are happening right now that constrain or violate our… Continue Reading →
The Dutch word for enthousiastic is ‘bevlogen’. This word also has the word flying in it and it is the best word to describe Hester Bijl. On the 21st of April of 2009 she stood before us, flapping her arms,… Continue Reading →
