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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

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.

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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.
①

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 03/05/2025

I didn’t realize I had this power on that message. Used it now ☺️

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 28/04/2025

[WARNING! HTML Abuse. Not for the faint-hearted.] I 100% love this and felt inspired. The bunny has enough selectors that it's all you need: jsfiddle.net/840paxmq/11/

Using CSS to show the bunny in the rendered output as well, eliminating all the extra classes that were part of the original bunny CSS. The ASCII bunny is rendered in hotpink on a dark gray card.

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 02/02/2025

Being able to get certs for IP addresses from Let’s Encrypt is going to be pretty cool!

A slide at Fosdem showing:

IP Address Support
Right now you can only get certificates from Let's Encrypt for domain names.
Later this year you will be able to get certificates for IP addresses.
Will allow making authenticated TLS connections to IP addresses.

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/01/2025

Took me a while but here we are 🥳

A screenshot of Twitter showing “This account doesn’t exist” for the handle “Kingdutch”

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 05/01/2025

We can fix this!

XKCD Comic titled “How standards proliferate”. The first panel is text only “Situation: There are 14 competing standards”. The second panel character 1 says to character 2: “14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone’s use cases.” Character two replies: “Yeah!”. Panel three titles “Soon”: “Situation: there are 15 competing standards.”

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 04/01/2025

That’s immaculate

The Merriam Webster GIF of the quoted tweet stopped at “Immaculate”

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 24/12/2024

My @cortexbrand.com order just came in. I’ve been hearing @myke.social and CGP Grey talk about it for years but never bought. Those shirts feel so high quality though! The subtle embroidery is top notch. These are great subtle tees 🤩

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 12/12/2024

Toggl clearly gets confused by the fact that I have a timer running at every moment of the day (including tracking hours in bed).

Toggl’s version of Spotify wrapped called “Toggl Tracked”. Showing “You logged 3993 time entries this year!”, “You were most active on Tuesdays - clearly your favorite day to get things done.”, “Your go-to productivity window is 9PM-5AM. You're either a night owl, a vampire, or just really dedicated to making questionable late-night snack decisions.”, and finally “January was your peak productivity month - way to go!”.

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Alexander Varwijk @kingdut.ch · 28/11/2024

I wanted to make a starter pack with Drupal folks, I think @bsky.app thinks I should really add @xkcd.com . As much as I’m an xkcd fan, I’m not aware of Randall working with Drupal

The “Choose People” screen in the Bluesky app showing “Randal Munroe, @xkcd.com” in the search results 5 times before showing the account of BlueSky itself.

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