Flat Earth

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Japan is good at inventing things, but in these five cases it was actually just good at adopting things.

Best practices for software engineering teams, derived from writings and speeches of Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping.

A survival guide for older people who can’t make heads or tails of the messages that their new Gen Z co-workers are writing in Slack.

Easter is long gone, but that doesn’t mean everyone has found all the easter eggs on this website. Here’s a cheat sheet!

I spend a lot of time reading papers. I spend even more time summarising them. Now I made oversimplified summaries of those summaries.

This month’s side project takes passive-aggressiveness against life’s daily obstacles to a whole new level.

Imagine a world in which all buses are cube-shaped for absolutely no reason.

Is it just me or do all Chinese restaurant names look the same?

This is a brief public service announcement for anyone who occasionally uses apostrophes or single quotes (or both).

Some old and current logos of well-known brands and organisations in the Netherlands (but not quite how you remember them).

There are decent, battle-tested ways to write asynchronous PHP, but that’s not what this article is about.

You’ll never look at Wikipedia the same way ever again.

I spent three years building a web app that translates Dutch to bad English and the results are even worse than I expected.

Today we’re dragging LAMP into the 21st century in the worst possible way.

Finally, an article that provides answers to assorted questions that nobody ever asks.

COPTCHA is a proof of concept for an online tool that your app can use to deny service to morally corrupt police officers.

This game is an absolute best-celler.

Most will agree that Apple still makes good products – but they are not as innovative as they used to be.

English is hard, even for the world’s seventh-largest passenger airline.