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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
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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
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Video I prompted using Midjourney 🤯
June 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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@infrequently talks at #JSNation about JavaScripts (bad) performance.
June 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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You know the story of Franz Reichelt, who jumped off the Eiffel Tower? (He didn’t survive)
Image of Franz Reichelt Died February 4th 1912
June 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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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
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I'm impressed by Firebase Studio. With just a couple of prompts I created a webapp that is directly usable and can be published for others to use.

Besides making an app, this can also be very useful for performing small one-time tasks.
Interface of app with droppable region and photo details with exif metadata, scanned text which is also translated to English.
May 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Mailservers used by European municipalities. The Netherlands stands out for mostly using Microsoft.

Read jurgen.gaeremyn.be/2025/03/08/e...
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Ross Geller approves!
ross geller thumb up
February 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I just read that investment company Softbank had 5% shares in Nvidia and they sold it 5 years ago. Someone is pulling their hair out now. 😂
Shares rose 2400% in last five years
January 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Het is de Hitlergroet
(scene uit American History X)
January 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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When you're in a deep debugging session using Claude…
You are out of free messages until 3:00 AM
January 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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We have mice again for the first time in years. And apparently they like kiwis 😄
photo of nibbled kiwi
January 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Amsterdam in the year 2100. (made with Midjourney)
January 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Last week my espresso machine stopped grinding. I found out a screw was slipping. Roughened the screw and now we have freshly ground coffee again. And €700 saved 🎉
Photo of screw with smoothed head
January 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Amsterdam is often called the Venice of the North. I thought: why don't smart entrepreneurs tour with gondolas? But then it turned out that it had already been tried 😄
Gondola in Amsterdam canal
January 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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I wish everybody a happy and thoughtful
January 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Also interesting from Cloudflares Year in Review showing the use of IP4 address blocks. While there is a severe shortage of IP4 addresses, the United States Department of Defense appears to be sitting on a large number of unused addresses.
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
December 12, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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Cloudflare released their Year in review. Remarkable is that less rich countries like Hungary and Romania have the fastest internet 😲
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
Countries with fastest internet: Spain Hungary South Korea Romania Luxembourg Portugal Israel Jamaica Malaysia Denmark
December 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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So, for icons, it's recommended to go back to the dirty
`visually-hidden` hack 😬
December 8, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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Uitnodiging voor een presentatie hoe je fishingmail herkent die eruit ziet als een fishingmail 😭
December 7, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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The sad story of Jest, the JavaScript Testing Framework. While every developer and every tool is moving from CJS to ESM, ESM support in Jest is still experimental. Don't they wonder why developer positivity in the State of JavaScript is declining since 2021?
jestjs.io/docs/ecmascr...
Graph of developer positivity of JavaScript testing frameworks showing an increasing line for Jest from 2016-2019 and a decreasing line since 2021.
November 25, 2024 at 9:00 PM