gijsnijholt1980

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Comment · 1 month ago
It’s truly a great museum! A trip down memory lane and they do their best to keep most machines operational. That’s no small feat. Enjoy!
Comment · 4 months ago
Agreed. Unrelated pro-tip: wearing them while riding a motorcycle. Reduces fatigue and transforms a rough experience into almost luxurious. Highly recommended.
Comment · 2 years ago
I developed an iOS app which detects your sleeping position and starts buzzing if you’re on your back. Similar to the tennis-ball-sewn-into-pyjama’s hack. Apple kept refusing to approve stating medical reasons. Still use it myself though, works great.
Comment · 2 years ago
If you go there, and there’s a long queue, do not blindly join it but look for alternate entrances.
Comment · 2 years ago
There must be something good about Drupal, but I was unable to discover it during the 6 months I had to work with it in 2008. The code was messy and the UI unnecessarily complicated. The most unsettling observation though, was that all the people who seemed to believe in it had no idea what they were talking about. I learnt Python, Django and PostgreSQL and never looked back.
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Comment · 3 years ago
Sorry, I didnt see it listed
Comment · 3 years ago
ASML for one is doing a lot of innovating. And enabling others to innovate too.

Edit: yes sorry, I noticed ASML after replying. Good piece btw

Comment · 4 years ago
Can confirm that this saved our old Samsung lcd television.

It took longer and longer to turn on. Some guy on YouTube used this hair dryer trick. So I did just that, blow the air inside the TV from below through the panels, and like magic it works again. Life hack!

Curious why it works though

Comment · 5 years ago
Indeed. The best thing you can do is to teach them how to think for themselves, how to think freely, what is really important in life etc. Takes a lot of time and effort but it gives them the best defense against peer pressure and ‘social media’
Comment · 5 years ago
Blender3D for video editing is really cool.

iMovie crashed bad on me and I never got it working again. Almost paid 300 bucks for Final Cut Pro.

Then remembered that Blender had this built in. And its really good. No need to import videos into a bin or nonsense like that. Just drag them into the timeline, add filters, drag to reorder, render to mp4/aac and its done.

Best discovery of the year sofar

Comment · 6 years ago
I’m working on a WhatsApp-but-using-email app. Prototype on https://nyholt.gitlab.io/whatsmail/

It has not been validated by Google yet so you get a big red warning box, but its all client side code. Basically you get the interface of WhatsApp, but the messages are plain old e-mails. No support for attachments yet, but works perfectly otherwise.

I’m using it myself, its really pleasant to use. It makes e-mail into a less formal communication method.

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