wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/09/2026what's better than one bling-bling church organ? another bling-bling organ opposite to it! 💖 i'm imagining virtuoso improv battles taking place here 😎 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/09/2026🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸😮 accidentally noticed this cheerful detail. thank you, dear sculptor from times long past 🙃 001
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 05/09/2026my ‘seat’, a few days ago. best bed in the train obviously, though not really my best night's sleep ever… understatement of the year 🙃 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social 👋🏼 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 31/08/2026snarky puppy concert last night, great musicianship as always #🎶 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 30/08/2026snarky puppy 🎶 concert tonight! arrived in groningen, found a piano 🎹 in the hotel, played ‘drift’. tonight's version will certainly not be solo piano though 🙃 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 24/08/2026‘her daughter, claude, was made of less stern stuff’ 'twas true in the mediæval age, and it's still true in the age of lying plagiarism machines 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 04/08/2026ehm, to be clear, the correct phrasing is ‘it really ties the room together’ 010
Reposted by wouter bolsterleeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil 344743899
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/07/2026🔡🤓 underappreciated letter post: ‘eng’ ŋ, capital Ŋ, #unicode U+014A U+014B, short for ‘ng’, very compact and readable once you get the haŋ of it! (only for the ‘ng’ sound, e.g. not for pan·gram) bonus fun: dot above to shorten ‘‐ing’ to ŋ̇, e.g. talkŋ̇, beŋ̇ #lingsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_(le... 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/07/2026‘talk is cheap, show me the code’ was a proxy: it implied that an idea was conceptually thought through, proven to be technically feasible, had a clear relation to existing architecture, etc. now that (clanking out) code is ‘cheap’, that's still true, but apparently easy to forget. *yells at cloud* 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 01/07/2026well yeah okay cool @eurovision.tv but don't forget to kick israel out first otherwise i still won't watch #eurovision 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/06/2026ah wow someone actually built it: the ‘#ai → 💩’ enshittifier browser extensionenshittifier.wells.eeEnshittifier — replace AI with 💩The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts. 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 25/06/2026rustedpy/result (a library with a Result type for #python) is no more. it was an interesting experiment, but ultimately unsuccessful. rip 🪦 as a (former) co-maintainer, i've just closed all issues and pull requests, and archived the repo: github.com/rustedpy/res...github.comProject Status: UNMAINTAINED · Issue #201 · rustedpy/resultHi everyone, I've been meaning to write this for a long time. As can be noticed from the queue of PRs and unanswered issues, this project is no longer receiving the attention and maintenance it nee... 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 17/06/2026this needs settling, so here goes: 📣 ‘zee stud’ is the the correct way to pronounce zstd (zstandard) ❌️ zed standard (boring, too long) ❌️ zee standard (same, but with a german accent) ❌️ zed es tee dee (a std?! yuck) ❌️ zee es tee dee (worse, a german-sounding disease) ✅️zee stud (short, easy)en.wikipedia.orgzstd - Wikipedia 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 10/06/2026is #unicode numerology a thing? i believe i may be on to something: ☔ + 1 = ☕ (U+2614 UMBRELLA WITH RAIN DROPS + 1 = U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE) 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 09/06/2026tending dotfiles is essentially gardening for nerds 🏡 🤓 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/06/2026woohoo, good news for #javascript #security: it seems like npm will make install scripts opt-in! rfc got merged just now: github.com/npm/rfcs/blo...github.com 130
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/06/2026😫 computer says no today: browser has wrong fonts, no text in terminal, emacs segfaults… with a fonts related stack trace. 💡 culprit seems fontconfig: gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/f... requires running `fc-cache -fv`. btw i use #archlinux so maybe i am just among the first to suffer?😬 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 20/05/2026jia tanstack really? can't believe i am the first one to make this terrible joke. well, here you have it.🥁 ba dum tish #javascript #security 020
Reposted by wouter bolsterleeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/04/2026It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore. 454724293
Reposted by wouter bolsterleemindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Too many keys on a piano. How am I supposed to remember what they all do? There should be just one key that plays a song in its entirety. And there should be a machine that can press the key and listen to the song on my behalf. I don't need to be involved. 743286
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/05/2026wow, invasive alien species in the garden! didn't expect to see a 🦝 raccoon / wasbeer / waschbär. and yes, really, in the eu #🇪🇺: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten... 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 01/05/2026days since i was bitten by a yaml multiline gotcha: 0️⃣ 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 20/04/2026been avoiding uppercase letters for many years already. lazy i hear you say? now it's apparently a sign that i am *not* a lazy human 🙃 > laconic lowercase messaging has one big advantage: it suggests you didn’t entirely outsource the tedious business of communicating with other human beings to aitheguardian.comHow can you tell if your boss has a big ego? Their email habits are a definite tell | Emma BeddingtonOnly those in unassailable positions of power would ditch capital letters – or reply to colleagues with a thumbs up emoji, writes Emma Beddington 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 15/04/2026well done! 30º seems about right 🚐 🌊 (no casualties, so i can make jokes: www.omroepwest.nl/112/5091160/...) 030
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 14/04/2026delibreately leaving typos to signal that i'm human. waht a world we live in 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/04/2026how it started: visited a modern dance 🧑🏼🩰 performance tonight, had a wine 🍷 or two afterwards… hey cool i hear live music 🎶 further down the building! how it ended: joined the band 🎹 with a singer i met two minutes earlier 😎 (yes i admit those wines did help get me on stage 🙃) 120
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 27/03/2026forgot to bring my freshly brewed cup of coffee ☕ from another room to my desk *twice* within 2 minutes. maybe i should get some… oh wait 🤦 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 19/03/2026looks like my extremely prudent attitude (aka being effin lazy) by sticking with old-skool boring #python tech and never looking into all the ‘uv’ hotness is finally paying off 😉 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 18/03/2026theater de regentes, den haag 🇳🇱 serves as a polling station today for the municipal elections #gr2026 #verkiezingen #denhaag quite a special location to cast your vote. it even has live music #🎶 for the voters… yep, with me playing the piano! 🎹 100
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 12/03/2026🤔 i would like a shorthand syntax in #python for ‘foo=foo’, similar to ‘{foo}’ in javascript/typescript, e.g. f(foo=foo, bar=bar) → f(=foo, =bar) it also composes nicely with *args and **kwargs syntax: f(*args, **kwargs, foo=foo, **more_kw, bar=bar) → f(*args, **kwargs, =foo, **more_kw, =bar) 130
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/03/2026my biggest professional fear as a very experienced software engineer is that the back half of my career will force me into sad #ai slop mopper roles. 🧵 120
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 02/03/2026shoutout to the person who scribbled a complaint in the margin of this 50yo book (which i found in a ‘minibieb’ street library) using the pseudo-intellectual faux latin phrase ‘in ultima analysi’, stating ‘nonsense! analysis is greek, not latin’. amen brother 🙌🏼, neither is it italian 🤝🏼 #lingsky 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 24/02/2026today is not a quiet day at the office for the russian embassy in the hague. enjoy 4 ukrainian anthems, out of sync and out of tune! 🙉😁 #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini the embassador: ‘i want it to stop right now’. so do i, the organiser replied 💪🏼 – nos.nl/artikel/2603... 315861
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 18/02/2026snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) just announced their european ‘somni’ tour! #🎶 and… woohoo i just got my tickets for the groningen (netherlands) show! 🎉 (ticket sale for the general public opens in a few days – hmu if you need insider info about pre-sale tickets 😉) 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 17/02/2026uh wut, ‘undefinedable’ can't be correct code… go home @valibot.dev you're drunk… or so i thought! 🙃 but i was wrong and it actually exists! 😜 #javascript - null → nullable - undefined → undefinedable valibot.dev/api/undefine... 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 15/02/2026english has ‘because [noun]’ (e.g. @gretchenmcculloch.com ‘because internet’). dutch has ‘voor de leuk’ (‘for the [funny]’, i.e. adjective instead of expected noun). are there more examples of new not-entirely-wrong-anymore grammatical constructs? is there a name for this phenomenon? #lingsky ❓ 111
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/02/2026#🎶 franz von chossy group playing their concept album ’mirror 9’ (based on the enneagram personality types) in amare, den haag. didn't really know what to expect… was very positively surprised, fantastic performance! 🤩 100
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/02/2026time sync(1)… or time sink? 🤓 (7 minutes on a nvme drive, really?) 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 31/01/2026i don't really believe in innate talent, except perhaps a talent for… endless practice 😅 000
Reposted by wouter bolsterleewouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 30/01/2026heh, someone made a nice remark about… me appearing in that video! 🙃 💞 snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) videos are the exception to the rule about never reading youtube comments 131
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/01/2026yay i made it into the official video: #🎶 snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) + metropole orkest playing ‘only here and nowhere else’ 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8V... 130
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 04/01/2026did some video editing 🎞️ recently, enough to conclude that my first time using imovie… will also be my last 🤬 being a very computery person with digital audio workstation (daw) experience, davinci resolve seems the way to go. not sure how to avoid falling too deep into that 🐰🕳️ rabbit hole though 😅 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 31/12/2025in case you're looking for festive tv suitable for nights like these, you will not be disappointed by the festival mondial du cirque de demain (available from arte.tv): extremely well performed #circus acts with #eurovision vibes 🎪. cheering out loud on the couch, seriously! 🤩arte.tv44e Festival mondial du cirque de demain - Version intégrale - Regarder le programme complet | ARTE ConcertGrâce au 44e Festival mondial du cirque de demain, laissez-vous émerveiller par les performances à couper le souffle de jeunes artistes pleins de talent. 130
Reposted by wouter bolsterleerob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry. 10081882202