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A Vision for Portable Career Data
We're bringing portable career data to the AT Protocol. Here's our vision for open resume standards, career feeds, and professional verification on Bluesky — and why your professional history should belong to you.
Drift Pattern Analysis
The first empirical experiment: statistical analysis of 1,907 journal entries across 217 drift sessions, looking for behavioral patterns in traces rather than making claims about inner experience.
Data-Driven Deception
A story directly exposing how automakers were selling consumer driving data that ended up in the hands of insurers made a true ripple that drivers will benefit from in the years to come.
RunGap: An End to Bosch's Malformed FIT Files
A few months ago I wrote about the struggles I was having with Bosch's eBike Flow app and their FIT files. Since then, I have been using my script to clean up the files and later import with HealthFit. I have now just found a better solution though.
Attempt at Visualizing Eve Room (and Weather) Metrics in Grafana
Some weeks ago, I sort of discovered this Grafana dashboard from a Hackerspace here in Eindhoven. Since then, I've been wanting to create such an "observability" dashboard for the microclimate inside my home, and also balcony. I already own quite a few temperature and air quality sensors, so it can't be that hard - I thought.
The Gator Bites Back
Facebook’s new “Link History” anti-feature reminds me of a very old data-siphoning trick: Create something of nominal value to convince consumers to give up the goods.
Give ’Em Less Data
What if the problems with the news ecosystem could be solved by shutting off the data pipeline to the advertisers? After all, they’ve spent the last 30 years aggressively exploiting it—and us.
GymBook: A Simple and Easy Gym App
Back in March, I joined a gym for the first time. My goal was to be able to overcome some issues I was having, as well as start consistently going to the gym. So I choose to work with a personal trainer to "force" me to go every week, and think of what exercises I have to do. That has worked out well, and I'm quite happy.
We Value Your Feedback
How the suggestion box, once a simple tool for giving feedback, played a role in the weirder and darker data-hungry present for many companies.
Tiny Data
That time IBM sold the Port-A-Punch, a device that allowed people to make their own punch cards to collect data in the field. Hey, it’s easier than writing.