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Alexander Varwijk

@kingdut.ch
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Technical Architect 🖥️ for community platforms at Open Social | PHP, 🦀 Rust, JS/TS, GraphQL | He/Him

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Follow the Money @ftm.nl · 17/07/2026
Wie maakt ons geld? Veel Nederlanders blijken daar nog altijd weinig zicht op te hebben. 88 procent weet niet dat private banken het grootste deel van ons geld creëren, blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek. Waarom dit kennisgebrek problematisch is, lees je in de eerste editie van ‘De politieke economie’.
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Hebben we dan niets geleerd? De kennis over geldschepping is nog even slecht als twaalf jaar geleden
Follow the Money - Platform voor onderzoeksjournalistiek
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 16/07/2026
Converting my existing stacked PRs into the new GitHub stacked PRs was seamless 🤩 A single GitHub CLI command and push and the new UI was available for navigation 🥳
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 11/07/2026
If only Windows 11 could just leave my desktop background alone, that would be great. I don't want the pictures they select, I want the picture I select.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 18/06/2026
I love my JetBrains IDEs, but what the heck? At first I thought it was an email about their LinkedIn page. But they want to monitor how I use my IDE so that they can have AI publish it on my LinkedIn profile? Heck no. I'm getting paid for results, not for how a machine judges that I achieve them.
A screenshot of Gmail showing an email from JetBrains news to me titled "Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn". 

The visible email shows a big call to action labeled "Conect your IDE" and the text reads:

Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn

Every developer has tools they rely on daily. The workflows they've built around them, the ways they've learned to move faster, debug smarter, and write better code – that kind of hands-on experience can be hard to put into words.

We're collaborating with LinkedIn to make it easier for you to showcase your expertise with JetBrains IDEs on the world's largest professional network. You can now connect your IDE to LinkedIn and let your real tool usage speak for itself.

IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, PhpStorm, Rider, GoLand, CLion, RustRover, and RubyMine are already supported via a free plugin, while support for DataGrip is coming soon.

In this blog post, we'll explain what LinkedIn connected apps are, what they mean for your profile, and how to get started.
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〽️ɪɢᴜᴇʟ 🔜 GodotFest @bitbra.in · 27/05/2026
Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.
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Mike Anello (ultimike) @mike-anello.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Regarding AI use in Drupal core and contrib development, this proposal from Théodore Biadala seems like a really good start: 🤖📋 tresbien.tech/blog/proposa... I would add that anything copy/pasted into a d.o. comment from AI should have a length limit as well. ✂️💬
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LLM harm reduction, policy proposal for Drupal Core contribution | Très Bien Tech
I've been following and participating in the conversation about applying AI tools to the Drupal core issue queue, and the broader community. I've been listening, reading, and experimenting quite a bit...
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 14/04/2026
@github.com Stacked PR private preview 🤩 github.github.com/gh-stack/ Our org never signed up for something so quickly, gone are the days of manually making a /note "merge in this order" 🙌 Can't wait to get in on this 🙏
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GitHub Stacked PRs
Break large changes into small, reviewable, stacked pull requests with first-class GitHub support.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 16/12/2025
GitHub is going to charge 0.002$ per minute for SELF HOSTED runners… what? 🤯 Guess Q1 of 2026 will be about figuring out what CI/CD platform we’re going to migrate to.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 05/12/2025
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
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SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
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Matt Glaman @mglaman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Preventing a `drush updb` from clearing your caches #drupal #drush mglaman.dev/blog/prevent...
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Preventing a `drush updb` from clearing your caches
By default, drush updb clears the cache after applying database updates. For deployments where you want to avoid an unnecessary performance hit, you can prevent this default behavior using a Drush pre...
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 17/11/2025
In the Dungeons & Dragons campaign that I DM, I kept forgetting about the passage of time. So I made a little thing to help me keep track of how much time has passed and record noteworthy events. It includes a link you can share with players that hides DM only notes.
dndlog.alexandervarwijk.com
dndlog
Track the passage of time in your campaign and keep track of what happened.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 06/11/2025
Technology changes rapidly. As a result, we’ll have to re-evaluate the markers that we use instinctively to determine whether something is trustworthy.
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Scams at scale
The first things humans invented, before fire, the wheel or baked brie, was trust. Trusting the others in the village. Trusting that you could get a good night’s sleep. Trusting that what you…
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Volt Nederland @voltnederland.org · 28/10/2025
Een strategische stem is een stem op Volt.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/10/2025
Learn how to think about asynchronous PHP, how to use the Revolt event loop and what AMPHP is! If you've missed my talk at DrupalCon Vienna then you can now watch my recorded presentation and view my slides with speaker notes at www.alexandervarwijk.com/talks/2025-1...
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Thinking Async | Alexander Varwijk
With the introduction of the Revolt event loop in Drupal Core, we're getting ready for Drupal to tackle an entirely new class of problems: asynchronous applications. In this session you'll find out ho...
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 02/10/2025
So I guess I solved this hard AI problem (/s)
A prompt in ChatGPT saying: “Can you draw me a left handed person reflected in a mirror?
Show only the reflection and not the source”

ChatGPT has generated an image of a right handed white man with black hair and a turquoise shirt, writing in a notebook resting on his left hand. Because the man is rendered as a reflection in a mirror, he’s actually drawing with his left hand. 
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/09/2025
Developers will reinvent whole battle tested libraries while saying it’s not a case of “not-invented-here” but then let AI do a half-baked copy paste job without batting an eye and trusting it blindly.
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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch proposes a bold redesign of #Drupal Core to support async processing, ReactPHP, and background tasks. His plan: decouple the kernel, adopt Symfony Runtime, and modernize bootstrapping across environments. Full deep-dive via TDT: 🔗 bit.ly/4nftKrj #PHP
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 08/09/2025
Imagine if we could use the Drupal framework for any type of application. In my new blog post I outline the work needed to bring us closer: www.alexandervarwijk.com/blog/2025-09...
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Proposal: restructuring Drupal's internals | Alexander Varwijk
Step-by-step restructuring of Drupal’s internals for better async support, clearer responsibilities, and compatibility with modern runtimes — making Drupal more flexible for modern application needs.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 07/09/2025
fuzzypost.com gave me a good chuckle #SnailMail
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FuzzyPost
Warm fuzzies by post.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 06/09/2025
Streaming services that aren’t Netflix are so incredibly bad at keeping watch progress synced across devices it’s infuriating that content is so spread out across services
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 05/08/2025
It’s either just my repository (or me) or I’m detecting a GitHub outage before their status page ☹️ Good luck to their engineering teams 🙏
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 14/07/2025
Chilling on the couch and playing Word Play on my iPad using a PS5 controller. Great game by @gamemakerstoolkit.com ❤️ (Playing using Steam Link 😉)
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The Drop Times @thedroptimes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🗳️ Meet Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch, candidate for the 2025 #Drupal Association Board Election. From grassroots dev to global platforms, he champions multiple pathways into Drupal, sustainable funding for key modules, and a bold dev advocacy program. Full interview: bit.ly/4elExfS
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Meet Alexander Varwijk — Candidate for the 2025 Drupal Association Board Election
Learn how Alexander Varwijk aims to enhance entry points for new contributors and promote community-led sustainability within the Drupal ecosystem.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 09/06/2025
Did BlueSky remove the “quick follow” button that were on posts or did I hallucinate that that was a thing?
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 09/06/2025
“AI can replace CEOs” does not indicate a danger of AI. It indicates the capitalist problem of people going through the motions rather than using creativity to serve their communities. The danger that AI might pose is a symptom of a different problem we should solve.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/05/2025
The new iconography of the silence coupes in NS trains just doesn’t work.. 🫩
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 21/05/2025
“We’re getting to a point where if you can’t make AI do that [some development task], then the problem is you” ~ Jamie Abrahams (www.linkedin.com/in/james-abr...)
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 21/05/2025
Today it’s time for #Drupaljam! Largest Drupal event in the Netherlands, now 100% in English 🥳 Fully sold out and many amazing sessions. Really excited!
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 16/05/2025
The new Firefox tab management is 🔥 Takes me a bit of getting used to that I now need to look to the right (that's a choice) rather than the top of my browser window, but it cleans up nicely and ties in well with Firefox' tab syncing and tab history features 🤩
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 15/05/2025
This would be huge. It’s been _the_ operator I’ve been missing in PHP for years
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 28/04/2025
Can’t wait for @gradyhillhouse.bsky.social to make a Practical Engineering video about the power outage in Spain/Portugal: www.bbc.com/news/live/c9... His black start video is likely very relevant at the moment: nebula.tv/videos/pract...
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What Is A Black Start Of The Power Grid?
Nebula image by Practical Engineering
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/04/2025
@patrickhwillems.bsky.social said “If you haven’t watched Jaws, go back and come back later I’m not going anywhere”. Today I finally watched Jaws and can continue watching Patrick. H Willems videos 🥳 didn’t realize it had been a year
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Wolfgang Ziegler // fago @wolfz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Drupal Dev Days 2025 in Leuven have started! #drupal #ddd
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 15/04/2025
Getting started with Cline today. First step is running my prompt through Claude Chat just to get some pointers on how to improve it 😁
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 07/04/2025
Imagine if we run out
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 06/04/2025
Played my first MTG pre-release today and I didn’t lose everything 🥳 Also got really good inspiration for my first constructed deck 🎉
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 03/04/2025
GitHub added a "Browse History" link for files that were moved and oh-my-god do I want to buy the person who built that a beer. That has been on my wishlist _for years_. No longer will I run into a dead-end in the GitHub UI and have to locally search for the previous file name and commit. 🎉
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/03/2025
2025, the year of breaking the habit of sending :) apparently (:
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 21/03/2025
If anyone is at the Dutch PHP Conference today, come say hi! 😄
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 21/03/2025
It's been a while since I looked at what GitHub has been building around issues and pull requests. They've really been hard at work to add a lot of project management tooling. Is GitHub a serious competitor for Jira yet? :o
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 20/03/2025
How did other people solve the watershed that is psr/http-message 2.0? I suddenly have a large group of dependencies that I _have_ to update in the same change since they all move from 1 to 2.
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 16/03/2025
Learning how to write a TraitExt in Rust feels like learning how to perform some black magic incantation that makes your code simpler. (In this case it was allowing anyhow's `context` on a future that returned a result so it could be `tokio::try_join!`ed) gist.github.com/Kingdutch/7b...
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Allow `.context` to be called on a future that returns result without awaiting.
Allow `.context` to be called on a future that returns result without awaiting. - trait.rs
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 14/03/2025
Same honestly
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 10/03/2025
Slack is an amazing tool. It allows me to write a full explanation of my problem to a colleague and then delete it without sending because I’ve solved the problem 🦆
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Volt Europa @volteuropa.org · 08/03/2025
This is what our female colleagues at Volt say.  What does gender equality mean to you? Tag a woman who has inspired you and share what she has helped change in your worldview. 💜 We read every comment!
A female member of Volt with an A4 saying: Equal Pay
A female member of Volt with an A4 saying: Stop interrupting me
A female member of Volt with an A4 saying: Self-determination and freedom through solidarityA female member of Volt with an A4 saying: Recognize period pains #justtakeaparacetomol
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 06/03/2025
Lets agree that in 2025 we no longer start talks about “You can do this cool thing with AI” by rehashing “The history or AI and there’s new tools every week so my slides are already outdated, haha” Everyone including my parents have seen that introduction right?
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/02/2025
Hostus Mostus is back on HBO Max 🥳 Just unfortunate that HBO Max is raising prices for 4k
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 07/02/2025
Congrats @veritasium.bsky.social ! Your video about light bulbs made it into the curriculum of the course on innovation management at my university. Guess I can now (re)watch YouTube and claim I’m studying 🥳
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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 05/02/2025
@myke.social I wanted to view the maps for Dangertown Beatdown but Dropshare has discontinued since 31-12-2024. Any chance those maps can be uploaded to a Relay or Cortex site so they’re available for future podcast listeners? (Loved the episode, excited for all the bonus content I still have to go)
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