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Edwin Martin
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bitsoffreedom.bsky.social
Hoera! De rechter gaf ons vandaag gelijk en stelde dat Meta inderdaad handelt in strijd met de wet. Meta moet de keuze van de gebruiker respecteren!
https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/02/oordeel-rechter-meta-moet-keuze-gebruiker-respecteren/
Rechter in rechtszaak Bits of Freedom: Meta moet keuze gebruiker respecteren
Bits of Freedom komt op voor internetvrijheid door de online grondrechten op communicatievrijheid en privacy te beschermen.
www.bitsoffreedom.nl
October 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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fronteers.bsky.social
What if a frontend conference started at 4PM and kept going until midnight?

🍷 Drinks, vibes, and five great talks
💻 HTML, CSS, sustainability, accessibility & more
📍 Cinema De Witt, Dordrecht
🎟 fronteersconf.org
Banner for “Fronteers Dark Mode”. In the background is a photo of the outdoor terrace of Cinema De Witt in Dordrecht, with people sitting, chatting, and enjoying food and drinks in a cozy, well-lit evening setting. In the foreground, a large yellow speech bubble contains the event text: “Friday night. Frontend. Fronteers Dark Mode! Join us on Friday, October 3rd, 2025, at Cinema De Witt in Dordrecht for an intimate evening of frontend talks and community vibes – from 4PM to after midnight.
September 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
What people seem to forget is that democracy is fragile. People fought hard to achieve it. Now democracy seems obvious, and people don't notice when it slips away. It's horrifying.
July 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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parismarx.com
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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essenviews.bsky.social
New angle ...
July 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Today I saw an older woman, dressed entirely in pink, mowing her front yard. It looked surreal, and I had a flashback to Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" video 😄
July 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
22, 80, 443

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nanoraptor.danamania.com Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · Jul 7
What’s a number (or set of numbers) in your field or hobby that might seem unrelated but anyone else in that group would recognise in an instant?

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July 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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reschober.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
AI tip: easily generate mock data structures
Input: Create a json data structure of 50 items. Each item has 7 fields: 1. field id with the id of the transaction 2. field status with possible values completed, pending and cancelled 3. field payment_method with possible values bank or card 4. field payment_number with bank account number or card number, depending on field payment_method 5. field amount with the amount in euros 6. field date with the date of the transaction 7. field recipient with the (company) name of the receiver of the payment Output: [ { "id": "TXN001", "status": "completed", "payment_method": "card", "payment_number": "4532 1234 5678 9012", "amount": 125.50, "date": "2024-01-15", "recipient": "TechWorld Electronics" }, { "id": "TXN002", "status": "pending", "payment_method": "bank", "payment_number": "NL91 ABNA 0417 1643 00", "amount": 89.99, "date": "2024-01-16", "recipient": "Fashion Forward B.V." }, …
June 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Amsterdam celebrates its 750th anniversary. I still remember the 700th anniversary. My mother gave me an anniversary book with everyday photos of Amsterdam.
June 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Video I prompted using Midjourney 🤯
June 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
These video's generated by Midjourney are mind blowing
www.midjourney.com/explore?tab=...
June 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
You know you’re the oldest when your GitHub ID is two digits shorter than the rest 😄
June 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Did you know that Jesus said that you should take care of the poor and the strangers?

Jesus was woke.
June 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
@michaelrambeau.bsky.social gave a talk today at #JSNation. He maintains BestOfJS, where you can find open source web projects. Looks pretty good!
bestofjs.org
Best of JS
Check out the most popular open-source projects and the latest trends about the web platform: React, Vue.js, Node.js, Deno, Bun... The best of JavaScript, TypeScript and friends!
bestofjs.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Add weather forecast to your calendar:
weather-in-calendar.com
Weather in Calendar ⛅️ 20°
You can now (again) get the weather forecast directly into your calendar. This local weather calendar uses emoji icons ⛅️ 🌧️ 🌦 🌨️  to display a 14 days forecast from OpenWeatherMap. Enter you city, ad...
weather-in-calendar.com
June 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
I played a bit with Firebase Studio. It worked really well. I wrote down my experience.
bitstorm.org/weblog/2025-...
Vibe coding with Firebase Studio
Last April, Google introduced Firebase Studio. It is an AI tool that allows you to create (web) apps by giving prompts, just like with ChatGPT. There are more vibecoding tools, such as Bolt and Lovabl...
bitstorm.org
June 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Adobe released a camera app for (high end) iPhones. It looks very promising and it’s free.
research.adobe.com/articles/ind...
Project Indigo - a computational photography camera app
research.adobe.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
@infrequently talks at #JSNation about JavaScripts (bad) performance.
June 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Arjan slaat de plank vandaag flink mis met de hypotheekrenteaftrek. Dat die afgebouwd moet worden.

De hypotheekrenteaftrek wordt afgebouwd! Die was 52% en is inmiddels 37% en dat wordt elk jaar lager.

Zie www.eigenhuis.nl/huis-kopen/h...
June 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
You never hear stories of using AI to buy shares. I can only think of one reason: they’re making tons of money and want to keep this knowlegde for themselves.
May 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Jules, the async development agent from Google is very slow. It takes days to fix a bug. Is that what they mean with "async"? 🙂
May 24 00:28 fix the timeouts Alright, I'll continue with the plan to fix the test timeouts. The next step is to modify the package.json test script. May 24 00:40 do it Continuing with the plan to fix the timeouts. May 24 09:40 please go ahead and fix the timeouts. Understood. I am working on fixing the timeouts. I am currently modifying the package.json test script to use start-server-and-test. May 24 13:25 are you done? Not yet, I'm still working on fixing the timeouts. I'm currently working on modifying the package.json test script. I will inform you once I'm done with all the steps. May 25 18:03 I'm still waiting I apologize for the delay. I am actively working on modifying the package.json test script. I will provide an update as soon as this step is complete. Today 13:33 when are you finished? I'm currently working on modifying the package.json test script. After this, I need to adjust the Playwright config, run a simulated test, and potentially update CI. I can't give an exact completion time due to potential environment delays, but I'll keep you updated on progress.
May 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
Finally deleted my Instagram and Facebook accounts 😅
May 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
edwinm1.bsky.social
In a democracy, policy is made by first listening to experts and stakeholders, investigating the consequences and whether it is legal. In the US, I see this crumbling and worse: people who think it is okay.
May 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
edwinm1.bsky.social
When I was a kid (and my English was bad), I thought California Dreaming was a really sad song. Now I know it's about some guy who doesn't like winter 🙂
May 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM