Fun/weird weekend project: I had an old blog at webxy.nl. Web 2.0 was a thing, and I thought why not make it a version number. Anyway: I added all the articles I could recover to this website, so if you want to read about old tech that you can no longer use: raymond.frl/tag/webxy
Blog starts in 2006…
De afgelopen week heb ik een groot aantal experimenten gedaan met AI coding. Als ik nu terugkijk, is er een duidelijk thema te zien: de-shittification. Grote bedrijven hebben de neiging om je geheel op te sluiten in hun ecosysteem. Ik probeer me daar »
Hamaki supports macOS Shortcuts. You can query your schedule, retrieve visitor information, and create spots from any Shortcut, Focus automation, or Siri command. Here is what is currently available: Appointments for Day Returns all appointments for »
Because Hamaki lives on your Mac, it can connect directly to local AI tools, without routing anything through the internet. One way to do this is via MCP. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude talk to local »
After switching to e/os I started playing with making my own apps for e/os and Android. My experiments can now be installed (I think..). See my store at droid.raymond.frl I did a couple of experiments: MusicRoom, I started using navidrome to host »
It’s gonna take a revolution now To get through to you (Pocket revolution, by dEUS) In the beginning of the year I started replacing rethinking my tech use to make it more inline with my own values. Basis thought: give money to people who (try to »
I remember hearing an interview with the songwriter Richard Thompson(*). He confessed that he sometimes writes new songs on top of pop hits. Taking the hit “Hit me baby one more time” by Britney Spears and writing a new lyric. Then replacing the melody »