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Rijk van Zanten

@rijk.nyc
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🐰 building @directus.io 🎓 teaching at parsons 🎸 playing bass in heavenly faded 📍 brooklyn, ny

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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 28/09/2026
I wonder if there's ever a way to evaluate and convert/execute the existing mountain of Wordpress themes and plugins out there. A big part of why folks keep using Wordpress is because there's already a vast ecosystem of themes and plugins available 🤔
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 19/08/2026
OK I need to stop overthinking it and just hit “post” a bit more liberally. With that in mind, here's a new little brain dump on applying “proper” vertical rhythm in CSS :) rijks.website/blog/260818...
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 13/08/2026
Finally did it: revamped my personal website and started blogging again. This is attempt 5 in 15 years, lets see if I can make it last this time 😇 rijks.website
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 06/08/2026
🔥 New blog post: Dark mode toggles that expose three states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option. Until you think about user goals, that is. Before rushing to disagree, hear me out. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da... PS: As a data point, @jakearchibald.com was converted after reading this 😅
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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea Verou
Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards...
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 05/08/2026
OK it's going to happen. Fifth time's the charm. Time to start blogging, for real this time.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/08/2026
Terrible news, especially for their workers. Just a deeply disappointing ending for such a promising company. I hate this.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 05/08/2026
I wish there was such a thing as an ad blocker for within native apps.. pictured: Apple's App Store showing Facebook as the first result for the exact search "Bluesky"
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 04/08/2026
Ozlo just launched the sequel to my most love/hate gadget of the last couple years: Sleepbuds. When they work, they're a game changer. Sleeping with white noise and having alarms just for me is amazing. However..
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 04/08/2026
I've admittedly spent an unhealthy amount on social media recently, and have to admit that X (fka Twitter) is wickedly more addictive than Bluesky. The constant barrage of (weird) hot takes and combativeness is pure nicotine. (Which don't get me wrong, is a bad thing)
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 13/07/2026
Had a little /goal Codex experiment running over the weekend and am.. a bit underwhelmed. I gave it a relatively simple rename refactoring project, but it didn't get anywhere close to completion without blowing through my limits multiple times (on the Pro plan no less)
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 10/07/2026
This year @directus.io has gotten 6× as many security reports as we did over the whole of 2025. This spike started in February, which is when Opus 4.6 launched (surprised? no) AI is great for improving security research, but the value has to be quality over quantity of reports.
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AI is straining vulnerability disclosure for maintainers. | Directus
Security reports to Directus jumped 6x in 2026, but only 5% were valid vulnerabilities.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 03/06/2026
Sleeper Mac app that I've been loving recently: Mole. Utility for cleanup, software uninstall, etc
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Lars Hanisch @flensrocker.de · 02/06/2026
Watched the "Rust inspired TS" talk by @rijk.nyc I haven't looked at #Rust yet but I do use these patterns in #TS and #CSharp (for some years), so I can confirm that they are really helpful. youtu.be/WDCVGaF4IGo
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Rijk van Zanten - Rust-Inspired Typescript
YouTube video by Devworld Conference
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 20/05/2026
Another conf keynote in the books. Come say hi if you're in ATL! ( 📷 by Chris D on X x.com/saltnburnem/...)
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 15/05/2026
Making my terminal behave like regular text editing (eg use ⌥+delete to delete a whole word, ⇧+arrow to select etc) has been such a tiny but meaningful productivity unlock 👀
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 13/05/2026
Recently, I've been experimenting with a "rolling wave engineering" setup in codex. Instead of speccing out the whole project up front, I only spec out the broad strokes of the project, and then only go into detail one slice at a time.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 25/03/2026
Tough watch, but a must listen. It's so telling how he switches from "our" and "grammerly" to "them" and the "product team" when the questions get tough.. you're the boss, you're responsible, that's the deal youtu.be/Y5eC5wdQPZs
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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me | Decoder
Our guest today is Shishir Mehrotra, the CEO of Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Back in August, Gra...
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 24/03/2026
Dear Spotlight, if I type "1Pass" I'd like to open 1Password, not the calculator to learn that 1Pa equals 0.0003 inHg. Thanks
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 10/03/2026
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 20/03/2026
We need a term for repackaging existing models as your own. Dropshipping but for AI: Slopshipping?
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 20/03/2026
Google keeps reinforcing that the decision to switch to Kagi was the right one www.theverge.com/tech/896490...
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Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Let us know if you see more.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 17/03/2026
Who do we have to bribe to get light mode in Spotify?
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Matteo Gabriele @matteogabriele.npmx.social · 12/03/2026
AI agents flooding PRs should be opt-in, not something users struggle to disable.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 12/03/2026
This is great news! Very glad to have a built in reliable way to deal with time
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 02/03/2026
Strange side-effect of Wispr flow / superwhisper: not entirely sure if the other person on this pair-work video call is trying to talk to me on mute or dictating to the machine :')
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Directus @directus.io · 27/02/2026
500 people decided to build something together. Every commit. Every fix. Every feature. None of them were asked. They just showed up from every corner of the world and made Directus better. Thank you to every single contributor. You're the reason this exists. 💜
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 17/02/2026
I've been trying Wispr Flow for a few weeks and learned something strange about myself: while it's undoubtedly faster than typing, I found myself going back to typing most of the time A) so it remains in my actual tone of voice, and B) because I hate murmuring to myself.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 13/02/2026
Three weeks ago we started a little channel to share each others social media posts and a friendly competition to increase engagement. Today, we more-than-doubled the number of unique visitors to our website. Coincidence? I think not.
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🐴 Alex Trost @trost.codes · 13/02/2026
The npmx folks are running a masterclass on community building.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 11/02/2026
Nothing like an early evening of Rust programming to soothe the soul
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 11/02/2026
It seems to be a toss up in quality between codex-5.3 and opus-4.6, but for this little GUI-guy Codex is undeniably better than Claude's “native” app.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 06/02/2026
Have you thought about changing to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support yet? www.heroku.com/blog/an-upd...
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An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, …
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 05/02/2026
Nothing like the relaxing sounds of a jackhammer drilling away right outside my window to allow me to focus on watching Claude do my work for me
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 30/01/2026
Excited! Weirdly never been to Atlanta, what should I go see / do when I'm there?
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 28/01/2026
🤩
Screenshot of a terminal window saying "Migrate this project to Vite+? Yes"
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 28/01/2026
Very excited to be back at this blast of a conference. See you there? 😃
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Directus @directus.io · 14/11/2025
We're hosting a live showcase of the native Directus MCP on November 20th at 10am EST! Register @ directus.io/mcp#event Here's what we've got planned 🧵
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Directus MCP - AI-Powered Collaborative CMS
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
"Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO" one of the more cursed @miasato.bsky.social posts in a while www.theverge.com/news/820165/...
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Here’s Jeffrey Epstein complaining about SEO.
In the trove of documents released this week, Epstein at times seems preoccupied with Google results related to him. In an email dated December 10th, 2010, Epstein complains that “the google page is n...
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Anthony Fu @antfu.me · 10/11/2025
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 09/11/2025
I’ve been trying to use an iPad as a laptop and… it’s getting surprisingly close to being useful. That being said, when using a mouse everything is too large, but then when tapping around with my finger things are too small. Can’t win! 🫠
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 24/10/2025
If you'd told me a year ago I'd be daily driving a browser from Atlassian I'd laugh in your face
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 17/10/2025
Dear Santa, for Christmas this year I would like syntax highlighting in code blocks in Slack. Love, Rijk.
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 17/10/2025
Apple Music's AutoMix™ is crazy good for progressive house focus mode programming
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 17/10/2025
Making this opt-out rather than opt-in is bad faith www.theverge.com/news/801539...
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OpenAI halts MLK deepfakes on Sora
Bernice King asked for people to stop sending her AI-generated clips.
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 14/10/2025
some of you got no idea what it truly means to join one’s professional network on linkedin. the sheer weight of such an undertaking, such a solemn vow. linkedin taught me the true meaning of honor, taught fearlessness, taught me deep, blood-bound loyalty. here’s what it taught me about b2b saas
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 14/10/2025
Should we make a standard for what emojis are called when used in the `::` syntax? :raised_hands:
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 07/10/2025
My Discord experience summarized in one screenshot
Screenshot of the Discord app "Downloading update" screen
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 06/10/2025
So ehh what's the deal with all these inconsistent border radii in macOS 26? 🫠
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Rijk van Zanten @rijk.nyc · 04/10/2025
What better way to combat jet lag than with a weekend of Ghost of Yōtei
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