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May 4

  • Book Club: Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition

    Join me in an async, email-based book club reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition. Inspired by Phil Eaton, we'll regularly discuss asynchronously via email and not have no video calls. Every level of experience and participation is welcome :).

  • Learnings From Crawling Technical Documentation

    Small gotchas and learnings from crawling technical documentation. Saving documentation locally is helpful in your software engineering projects - for example, for local AI to offer your coding agents to use the documentation of software you use, or just to do further processing on it.

  • Hosting an Open Alternative to Google Docs for Digital Sovereignty

    We are self-hosting LaSuite, an open-source Google Docs alternative, for our small agency - and opening it up for others to try.

  • Make Technical Documentation Available for Local AI Use

    For our recent work, we looked into how to consistently crawl technical documentation and make it available for further processing by LLMs or agents. Doing so would either allow you to use the documentation for downstream processing, or you could vendor the documentation locally - in your repository, for example - and build a more easily searchable database of it.

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  • Where to Stay when Visiting Paris

    Occasionally friends and family visit me in Paris. So far, I still have not found a solid list of places to stay but this is my current list in the hopes to be able to update and just link it in the future.

  • You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account

    New immigration rules for the UK are being enforced starting February 2026. This means citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit, even for tourism. Luckily, you can apply (and pay) digitally. Unfortunately, the government very much would prefer you to do so using the official app.

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  • AI Adventures

    A ChatGPT wrapper to generate TTRPG adventure ideas.

  • TinyPets

    They are pets. They are tiny.

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  • Frozzen - a turn-based RPG

    Frozzen - a turn-based RPG, coming soon to browsers and mobile devices near you. Serious gaming with depth and a thrilling story in a dark fantasy world.