This is the best photo ever taken of Terry Pratchett, and indeed one of the best photos ever taken of anybody pic.twitter.com/p1JCQtfX05 — Mitch Edgeworth (@mitchedgeworth) March 12, 2015 Though I didn’t read him for very long, Terry Pratchett’s books in the local library translated to Dutch were my introduction to both fantasy and a … Continue reading Terry Pratchett
I have followed the Turkish elections on the night from Sunday to Monday which turned into a gripping account of prime minister Erdogan trying to steal the elections while most of the people were sleeping. Orchestrated blackouts had drawn out the count. The twitter block didn’t prevent activism from spreading but did reduce the reach … Continue reading Turkey’s stolen elections
We just switched over to Slack and we are quite happy with the tool as a replacement for our previous Hipchat setup. It all feels a bit fresher, it’s easier to integrate with the rest of the web and has more functionality and niceties built in. I did have this frustrating twitter conversation with them … Continue reading We don’t need saddles nor do we need faster horses
I’m currently at a German MVNO called Congstar. Partially because somebody told me that they have LTE (which is not true) and partially because I had gotten rather fed up with my Vodafone prepaid plan (branded CallYa). Like any service in Germany this one too is terrible and since then I have come to call … Continue reading Cuntstar né Congstar
This week started with Pentecost. Trying to get stuff done in Germany during the bank holiday flurry that is May is always a challenge. I spent more time working on Cuppings. In all likelihood this app will never make any serious money, but there are other advantages to building apps which may become apparent in … Continue reading Week 323
So it turns out I’ve fallen immensely behind with the weeknotes over here, but we did start writing them at the new office now, which should make up for something. Those live at http://kantberlin.tumblr.com/ currently. What happened that week was a bunch of work and getting a desk from IKEA to work on at the new … Continue reading Week 322
The Hybrid Talk I gave the week before is up on Soundcloud. You can listen to it here and see if you agree with our ideas about how a client driven organization can operate without being rubbish. The rest of the week was spent preparing the presentation for NEXT Berlin about Love in Times of … Continue reading Week 269: Talks given and posted
This week was marked by a massive sprint on saba which made me miss this year’s Myfest in Kreuzberg, which is annoying but survivable. I did manage to see Ryoji Ikeda’s Data Anatomy on its last day in Tresor. A visually spectacular but thematically flat affair. The next day Stefan Wehrmeyer and I went to … Continue reading Week 268: presenting on transit and work, talking with Neelie Kroes
This is an English rewording of a post in Dutch earlier this week just in time for this Reboot session. I’ve recently been involved with several government initiatives to make government data more accessible and to show what’s possible if that data is publicly available. The premise is that if government data is open, developers … Continue reading Friendlier and more open government data
Ik ben pas bezig geweest met verschillende overheidsinitiatieven om overheidsgegevens makkelijker toegankelijk te maken en te laten zien wat er mogelijk is als die gegevens toegankelijk zijn. Het idee is dat als de gegevens van de overheid open zijn, ontwikkelaars en andere partijen die kunnen hergebruiken en dingen kunnen maken waar andere mensen behoefte aan … Continue reading Overheidsgegevens opener en vriendelijker