Vasilis

Next week we’re hosting the second day of The Web You Want. A day about, indeed, the web. With talks by @npub1tsg…0qlp, @npub1rav…uh8a, @npub1a8j…2la2, @npub1jpy…yfwv, and @npub1uy4…kptm, and workshops by @npub13gc…pmsw and @npub1tc9…jjtx. We’ll also take a further look at our incredible students’ work, and there will be time to chat with each other after the event. There are still some — free! — tickets available. Looking forward to seeing you all next week!
☞ https://gath.io/2rLRGJ4g91uetPsV_yhkS

2026-04-20 05:52:45 UTC

Last Friday we hosted the first The Web You Want event. I wrote down some thoughts:
☞ https://vasilis.nl/nerd/2026/i-like-the-web-they-want/

2026-03-28 11:16:38 UTC

The lineup for the first The Web You Want conference is complete, and tickets can be grabbed. Very, very much looking forward to seeing ALL of you there. There will be talks by @npub1f2x…k75w, by @npub1fqn…7965, by @npub1vuf…0ef5 and more!
☞ https://gath.io/GfyzG5Jyet6vw0J5_eyKk

2026-02-11 21:17:24 UTC

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Zojuist heb ik toevallig een video van een haardvuur downgeload met yt-dlp
☞ https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

2025-12-06 10:18:38 UTC

More arguments against ai. And as a bonus, the term “decomputing”.
☞ https://www.danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html

2025-11-16 19:36:13 UTC

I need a new book. English or Dutch, preferably fiction. Any tips?

2025-11-04 10:25:47 UTC

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The e-ink screens I’ve worked with so far have a rather slow refresh rate, too slow for typing. But they must exist, very interesting!

2025-11-04 10:19:09 UTC

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Oooh, and you can make them yourself as well!

2025-11-02 16:34:31 UTC

My colleague Ju5tu5 created an extra theme for the The Web You Want website. A chance of one in three that you’ll see it.
☞ https://the-web-you-want.org/

2025-10-31 08:33:10 UTC

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Ja, dat snap ik. Maar dat kan ook met browsers die minder sketchy zijn.

2025-10-31 08:06:49 UTC

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Bij Tip nummer 2 adviseren jullie om Brave te gebruiken. Die snap ik niet helemaal. Dat is toch echt wel een browser met een big tech mentaliteit. Ik zou hem vervangen door Vivaldi, of in élk geval Vivaldi er bij zetten.

2025-10-14 08:59:45 UTC

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Okay, nesting hover and focus styles is nice as well.

2025-10-14 08:48:54 UTC

I don’t care too much about nesting selectors, but I heart nesting media queries.

2025-10-08 11:40:12 UTC

We’re organising an event.
☞ https://the-web-we-want.com/

2025-09-20 07:47:36 UTC

I want to buy a (new) linux laptop, max 13 inch. Should I buy a framework laptop? Or something else?
#linux

2025-09-14 07:32:38 UTC

What type of conference would be interested in nerdy talks about the digital clocks that I make? I think it is not *useful* enough for the web conferences I used to attend. But I think/hope there is a scene that appreciates this kind of nerdery. Any ideas?
☞ https://vimeo.com/1095857099

2025-07-11 08:51:13 UTC

Did I just fix my Mastodon? Please reply with a “yes” if you read this.

2025-07-01 13:44:32 UTC

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Alas, my train got cancelled. I will not listen to Meredith Whittaker tonight.

2025-06-30 20:01:13 UTC

Is anybody I know ging to listen to Meredith Whittaker tomorrow?
☞ https://dedependance.eu/events/meredith-whittaker/

2025-06-16 20:29:54 UTC

I’m looking for a simple, self hosted bookmarking system for saving links. Preferably one that archives pages as well. Any suggestions?

2025-05-15 18:38:39 UTC

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Ah, yes, it’s from the people of Naive Weekly: https://www.naiveweekly.com/about

2025-05-15 16:16:25 UTC

I bought the first edition of the Internet Phone Book.
☞ https://internetphonebook.net/

2025-05-04 14:58:39 UTC

I made a tattoo clock.
☞ https://lovenonsense.com/2025/one-life-one-change/

2025-04-15 10:53:58 UTC

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Oh, I see chromium considers this bug to be fixed. Sloppy work, dear chromium, it’s not fixed at all.

2025-04-15 09:57:09 UTC

Dear browser makers, please fix LCH. The promise of LCH was that the L could be trusted: no matter what the hue is, the lightness would always be the same perceived lightness. In your current implementations this is completely broken. It’s even worse than HSL
☞ https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40909194
☞ https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255939
☞ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847421
#browser #interop #css #chromium #webkit #gecko

2025-04-02 20:14:32 UTC

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Another group will work with an actor who wants to be able to add annotations to his scripts, while he’s travelling by train in his wheelchair. These tests will be on a train.
I want my students to experiment, and to come up with stuff we don’t know yet. Which is easier than it might seem, because there still is so little actual design for people with disabilities.

2025-04-02 20:03:35 UTC

Today we started our yearly Exclusive Design course, one of my favourite courses. Our students will make tailor made prototypes for, and with, real people, not personas. One group of students will work with someone who is deaf. They’ll be experimenting with expressive closed captions and podcast transcripts. Another group will work with a philosophy student with macular degeneration. He needs to be able to add annotations to his digital books, and to manage them, with a screen reader.

2025-03-30 11:37:32 UTC

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Wow, thanks! That works!

2025-03-30 11:01:21 UTC

Dearest math nerds. I want to round, or floor, numbers to even numbers. So 1 becomes 0, 2 stays 2, 3 becomes 2, etc. How do I do that? And to make it even worse: In JavaScript.

2025-03-24 07:10:42 UTC

Today my students start a four day hackathon. We made a database with women who had an impact on the web. They’re going to throw HTML and CSS to that database to make it impressive to use.
I suspect some of my students will ask “why women?”
Do you have any good articles we can use to inform them? And to start a discussion, if needed?

2025-03-17 07:11:04 UTC

I made a clock. People who have traveled by train in the Netherlands might recognise it. And you might want to wait until the red second hand points up.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/station-clock/01/
#clock

2024-10-18 17:02:47 UTC

96 days ago I told you about the advent/recovery calendar I was making for my father. According to his doctor he needed 100 days to recover from an accident. He loves this calendar, he clicks on it every day.
It turns out he needs more days. His doctor said that these kinds of injuries can take half a year. So I’m making a new calendar with a 10x8 grid. And I could use your help, again. If you have any fascinating, unexpected, artistic, historical, fantastic links, please send them to me.

2024-10-13 19:50:11 UTC

There’s just one minute in the Pix Clock that doesn’t have a picture yet, and that’s 17 minutes past 3, at night. All the other 1439 minutes have at least one photo of a clock.
☞ https://vasilis.nl/clocks/pix-clock/