The Archive

Blog of a nerdy designer

2024

Nov 6

Conference summary: Enterprise UX 2023

Sep 30

Alternatives to endless scrum

Sep 9

Another blog update

Aug 21

FIXED! NUC5pcyb hanging with Ubuntu Linux

May 24

The origin of Lorem ipsum

May 6

Blog maintenance

Apr 3

The AI-puzzlesolver: how many Easter puzzles can ChatGPT solve?

Mar 27

Easter puzzle of 2024

Mar 25

Using AI to create images for blog-posts

ai blogging programming

Feb 10

Hugo import Jekyll

Feb 8

Yearly Review 2023

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2023

Apr 22

Video did not kill the radio star (AI will not replace all human artists)

Apr 17

Sick of being a night owl? How I became a morning lark and adjusted my chronotype

Apr 6

Start working on my Easter Puzzle!

Jan 28

Apple versus Spotify and Netflix: who wins on quality?

Jan 27

Yearly review: 2022

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2022

Dec 18

New Rijswijk Talent Award: theme transition

Oct 11

Usability testing a mobile app remotely: 4 simple methods

design research

Sep 27

Make your research reusable: the information library for UX Research

design research

Apr 12

Enjoy a puzzle for Easter!

Mar 17

So you want to solar panel?

Jan 16

Year review 2021

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2018

Dec 31

Review of Apple Photos: the good, the bad and the ugly

photography review

Dec 30

Moving to Apple Photos

programming photography

Dec 25

Who will I trust to sync my photos: Apple, Google or Adobe?

review photography

Dec 17

How we created the best conversational UI ever

Dec 17

Dutch Designer: What do you do?

Dec 17

Designing Intelligence

Dec 17

Behind the scenes of “Dutch Designer: What do you do?”

Dec 13

Prototyping with Axure • Part 5 - Padding a number!

Oct 8

If the answer is UX designer, what was the question?

Sep 19

.Beat – Internet Time

Sep 17

Update on my survey (Digital design in the Netherlands)

Sep 16

Hosting my site on Gitlab

blogging programming

Sep 14

Stitching 4 photos in 1

programming photography

Aug 20

Prototyping with Axure • Part 4 - Creating a game!

Aug 13

Creating Magic: Design and AI

programming ai design

May 26

Phone heavily to the described dancers 💃 — my privacy policy by a Neural Network

Mar 30

Prototyping with Axure • Part 3 - Lightboxes

Mar 24

Prototyping with Axure • Part 2 - Documentation

Mar 14

Recommendations have categories

Mar 13

All content licensed under Creative Commons

Mar 12

Games • Part 3: Getting to know eachother

Mar 8

Games • Part 2: Some more mystery-games!

Mar 5

Git and dropbox

Mar 2

Comparing photo-services • Part 2

review photography

Feb 25

Book Summary • The Power of Habits

Feb 11

Jan 23

Old style cat-movie

photography programming

Jan 17

Creating movies and GIFs from a series of photos

programming photography

Jan 10

Comparing photo-services • Part 1

review photography

Jan 3

Prototyping with Axure • Part 1 - Optimal images

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2017

Dec 13

Nov 22

Spotify Scannables

programming music

Sep 24

Bitcoin and Monero

Sep 22

Blog now in Git

blogging programming

Sep 5

Matth-ijs.nl recommends...

programming review

Sep 4

Now running my own VPN and PiHole

Apr 12

Fully customisable slider in Axure. Error messages, auto-interpolation, etc.

Jan 25

How to manually back up Whatsapp from Android

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2016

Dec 7

Installing Jekyll on Mac, Ubuntu and Bash on Windows

Nov 22

programming jokes

Jul 28

Schadenfreude beach

programming jokes

Jun 18

32juan - One picture per hour

programming jokes

May 24

Blog got a visual update

May 16

Encrypting Dropbox

Apr 13

Installing ZENDServer in Vagrant

Mar 6

programming jokes

Mar 2

Scribble - easy note writing

Feb 6

Send Cookie - creating a shop in Etsy

Feb 1

Streaming services compared

Jan 11

Jan 2

Blog now processed by Jekyll

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2014

Jul 30

Yay! A new tracking record

Jul 30

Google Play Quality Sucks

complaining review music

Jul 29

Interest (rente) at Rabobank

Jul 14

Jun 26

Darling Violetta, you awesome

Jun 19

Don't see the autologin option in Ubuntu?

programming complaining

Jun 5

F*ck it! I'm rooting for Cersei from now on

complaining jokes

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2013

Dec 27

Disruptive Innovation: Kenya vs the Netherlands

Jan 21

Een Eigen Dierentuin voor Tim - Tim Wants a Zoo

Jan 8

Four-in-a-rowbot

ai games programming robotics

Jan 3

Bieberfree Youtube (2011)

Jan 1

1804 words

2012

Dec 27

AI - Master Project (2009)

ai programming robotics

Dec 25

Dec 20

Gold'n Raand Hike (2009)

Dec 18

The Game (2008)

Dec 13

AI - Zeppy (2007 - 2008)

Dec 11

AI - The Da Vinci Code game (2007)

games ai programming

Dec 6

AI - Coevolution and speciation (2006)

Dec 3

Welcome to my new 'home'!

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2011

Jun 8

Silly bike parking things

Jun 5

Coffee Machine at TUE

Jun 1

Confusing streetnames

May 30

Slideshare.net and Squirrel

Mar 2

Opening windows (again!)

Feb 28

Another trainstation oddity

Feb 25

The USI-waterboiler and Dishwasher

Feb 23

Ironing device from Hema

Feb 21

24 hour information machine

Feb 18

Feb 16

Elevator at V&D

Feb 14

Feb 11

Feb 9

Parking machine at the zoo in Emmen

Feb 7

Building design

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