iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

peterVG @vangarderen.net · 26/09/2026

curious how many fellow nerds love the Obsidian experience then hated its limitations and vibe-coded their own version? I think "personal knowledge management" or "digital gardening" is like an endless quest. I used to think we could design the one definitive system to rule them all.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 16/09/2026

Thanks AI. I guess I'm a Rust developer now. Stand back. ImageSquid on its way.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 13/09/2026

C'mon GPT-6 Astra, why are you being such a downer? "Key constraints: The project has no validated budget, staffing, launch dates, prices, market share, or paid conversion evidence."

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/09/2026

Okay sorry I’m old, I’m slow to catch on. ATProto *really* gives me the opportunity to hit reset on my own social / trust graph and control it going forward. Damn.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/09/2026

And @hadsie.com presenting Checkmate, a chess app built completely on protocol. All your moves are stores in your PDS, the game can be followed publicly.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/09/2026

And @djpardis.com presenting local-first cueport.app DJ app!

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/09/2026

Also some mindblowing projects from @byjp.me visiting from London, including PDS backup on RaspberryPi, ATFS, PassingReads..

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/09/2026

Some cool presentations at ATProto Vancouver meetup like @semble.so ‘s @wesleyfinck.org and @bmann.ca @jacobsayles.bsky.social @hadsie.com talking about @z-space.ca AI inference commons project (ZAI)

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c-base e.V. @c-base.org · 02/09/2026

Started a hackerspace starter-pack. Which ones are missing? go.bsky.app/KStPqiy

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 30/08/2026

Yes, sometimes the clothing does make the man.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 19/08/2026

The Archives and Technology Unconference (TAATU) Halifax 2010. T-shirt still makes great pajama top.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 13/08/2026

Love spreading good summertime footy vibes by running another SavaryFC beach scrimmage.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 10/08/2026

The only way to get employed as an AI engineer consultant/lead is to be unemployed long enough first, so you can catch up, keep up, prototype, evaluate and integrate 9-5. And then also tie it back to your previous tech life. Barely anyone can claim more than 12 months live experience.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 08/08/2026

So my heaven would be to be just be permanently inside extended Fred Again livestream videos on shuffle. Please find me there after MAID. youtu.be/6MAzUT1YhWE?...

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Fred again.. - Rooftop Live (Arun’s Roof, London)

YouTube video by Fred again . .

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 08/08/2026

Any other #VWFC fans finding Boro highlights in YouTube feeds? So great to see Seba keep getting better over course of last two seasons, then World Cup and now hitting ground running in the Championship. Espanyol earlier in the week, then a great header assist for Carabao Cup win against Wrexham.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 06/08/2026

Was just trimming down my DigitalOcean VPS farm in favour of EU sovereign OVH servers but then this..nicely played DO.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 31/07/2026

#Dwebcamp #Cascadia 2006 has convened. Talking distributed tech and solarpunk on a hot sunny Saltspring Island.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 29/07/2026

Psst. Doing an AT thing. Check out atpix.net

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 14/07/2026

Getting the audience “to make a little house above your head” to help with @spiralganglion.com nerves…actually just to mess with us before her Playbook talk @localfirstconf.com

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 14/07/2026

Peter Van Hardenberg introducing @inkandswitch.com and Lab Day at @localfirstconf.com

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 13/07/2026

Cost of European conferences and family trip: not cheap Cost of fresh #Dwebcamp and #LocalFirst stickers for notebook: priceless

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 13/07/2026

In case parenting wasn't all you thought it would be... (lost in translation, Berlin 2026)

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 13/07/2026

Arushi Bandi, CEO @habitat.network making the argument in @localfirstconf.com presentation for the missing (portable) Data Ownership layer in the TCP/IP stack. Get it out of the Application layer!

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 12/07/2026

Exact moment in hotel elevator when I had my next *great idea*

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 11/07/2026

Berlin July 11. McDonald's next to Checkpoint Charlie is creating some cognitive dissonance.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 08/07/2026

#Dwebcamp Berlin 2026 kicking off RN!

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Richard Barnes @ipv.sx · 02/07/2026

OK, I wrote up a whole blog post with some more detailed thoughts on this. Curious if anything here resonates with other folks. Thanks to @iame.li, @dholms.at, and @bnewbold.net for helpful pointers and discussions! pckt.blog/b/bits-of-en...

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All data should be permissioned data - Bits of Entropy

My post with vague complaints about the proposal that made for permissioned data got a bit of attention. Daniel was kind enough to take the time to chat with me...

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 04/07/2026

Amsterdam, summer 2026

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 02/07/2026

Amsterdam, July 2 nxtmuseum.com

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 02/07/2026

"A people that yields to tyrants will lose more than life and goods then the light goes out..." --Amsterdam, June 30

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 01/07/2026

Utrecht, late evening, 29 Juni

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 25/06/2026

Okay, NotebookLM generated slidedecks were magic a few months ago. Now you can spot one a mile away and my brain simply wont engage with it. Just send me some bullet points you wrote yourself instead please.

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 22/06/2026

I’m in London this week for a BRIMES conference roundtable discussion with my Fighting Erasure project collaborators. Our work highlights the critical role that digital archiving and secure archival collections play in protecting cultures that are suffering violent, intentional erasure.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 03/06/2026

Did an afternoon / evening speedrun of setting up local AI on the @z-space.ca network with @jacob.cascadia.social @vangarderen.net @hadsie.com - proxmox node for openwebui, npm - ASUS GX10 node for inference - Old Macbook running LiteLLM for routing between machines

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peterVG @vangarderen.net · 21/05/2026

Have successfully slayed the sunk cost fallacy, again. Starting over, again #ai #dev

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Nature @nature.com · 17/05/2026

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/49KiNZJ

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Hallucinated citations highest in social sciences preprints site

Nature - More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone.

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NaNdi @nandi.uk · 15/05/2026

Elsevier's operating margin: 38%. Google's: ~25%. The most profitable information company on earth isn't a tech giant — it's a journal publisher that doesn't pay its authors or peer reviewers. The product is the community, extracted as rent. Scholarly publishing is a heist dressed up as public good.

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