Arend van Beelen
@arendjr.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Author, philosopher, programmer, entrepreneur, father and husband.
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# Say no to AI
"The intelligence of a computer is not grounded in experience or self-awareness."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/say-no-to-ai/
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#AI #philosophy #philosophymatters #philosophyofbalance
"The intelligence of a computer is not grounded in experience or self-awareness."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/say-no-to-ai/
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#AI #philosophy #philosophymatters #philosophyofbalance
Man vs. Machine
The intelligence of a computer is not grounded in experience or self-awareness.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:21 AM
# Say no to AI
"The intelligence of a computer is not grounded in experience or self-awareness."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/say-no-to-ai/
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#AI #philosophy #philosophymatters #philosophyofbalance
"The intelligence of a computer is not grounded in experience or self-awareness."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/say-no-to-ai/
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#AI #philosophy #philosophymatters #philosophyofbalance
You Don’t Always Need to Make the Right Choice
"Embracing a philosophy can feel like a dangerous thing..."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/you-dont-always-need-to-be-right/
#philosophy #ideology #acceptance #philosophyofbalance
"Embracing a philosophy can feel like a dangerous thing..."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/you-dont-always-need-to-be-right/
#philosophy #ideology #acceptance #philosophyofbalance
You Don’t Always Need to Make the Right Choice
Embracing a philosophy can feel like a dangerous thing.
philosophyofbalance.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
You Don’t Always Need to Make the Right Choice
"Embracing a philosophy can feel like a dangerous thing..."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/you-dont-always-need-to-be-right/
#philosophy #ideology #acceptance #philosophyofbalance
"Embracing a philosophy can feel like a dangerous thing..."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/you-dont-always-need-to-be-right/
#philosophy #ideology #acceptance #philosophyofbalance
It's time we finish the emancipation of men.
"Men are discovering that strength lies in the knowledge that we need to pair rationality with empathy to truly empower ourselves."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/the-emancipation-of-men/
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#empathy […]
"Men are discovering that strength lies in the knowledge that we need to pair rationality with empathy to truly empower ourselves."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/the-emancipation-of-men/
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#empathy […]
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November 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's time we finish the emancipation of men.
"Men are discovering that strength lies in the knowledge that we need to pair rationality with empathy to truly empower ourselves."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/the-emancipation-of-men/
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#empathy […]
"Men are discovering that strength lies in the knowledge that we need to pair rationality with empathy to truly empower ourselves."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/the-emancipation-of-men/
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#empathy […]
If you ever wanted to read a single blog post that gives insight into me, the human condition, and why those motivate me into writing the Philosophy of Balance, this is the one:
Teaching Empathy: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/teaching-empathy/
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Teaching Empathy: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/teaching-empathy/
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If you ever wanted to read a single blog post that gives insight into me, the human condition, and why those motivate me into writing the Philosophy of Balance, this is the one:
Teaching Empathy: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/teaching-empathy/
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Teaching Empathy: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/teaching-empathy/
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#materialism is an illusion.
"To remain intellectually honest, not just with ourselves, but with the universe at large, we must accept that materialism is a mere illusion, a projection of the mind."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/materialism-is-an-illusion/
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"To remain intellectually honest, not just with ourselves, but with the universe at large, we must accept that materialism is a mere illusion, a projection of the mind."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/materialism-is-an-illusion/
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November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#materialism is an illusion.
"To remain intellectually honest, not just with ourselves, but with the universe at large, we must accept that materialism is a mere illusion, a projection of the mind."
https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/materialism-is-an-illusion/
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"To remain intellectually honest, not just with ourselves, but with the universe at large, we must accept that materialism is a mere illusion, a projection of the mind."
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Free Will is real and you better believe it!
That's a bold statement, I know, and one that I cannot prove. Yet I do believe it is our most rational position to take.
Read on: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/free-will-you-better-believe-it/
#philosophy #philosophyofbalance #freewill
That's a bold statement, I know, and one that I cannot prove. Yet I do believe it is our most rational position to take.
Read on: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/free-will-you-better-believe-it/
#philosophy #philosophyofbalance #freewill
Free Will Is Real And You Better Believe It
Free Will exists. We may not be able to prove it, but believing in it is our most rational option by far.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Free Will is real and you better believe it!
That's a bold statement, I know, and one that I cannot prove. Yet I do believe it is our most rational position to take.
Read on: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/free-will-you-better-believe-it/
#philosophy #philosophyofbalance #freewill
That's a bold statement, I know, and one that I cannot prove. Yet I do believe it is our most rational position to take.
Read on: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/free-will-you-better-believe-it/
#philosophy #philosophyofbalance #freewill
Hot take: #Microsoft should’ve had the balls to just revive #clippy instead of introducing #MiCo.
Now everyone’s laughing that it’s Clippy 2.0 anyway, but if MS had been the ones calling it Clippy, they would’ve been able to preempt the fun making. And they could’ve spinned it by saying the […]
Now everyone’s laughing that it’s Clippy 2.0 anyway, but if MS had been the ones calling it Clippy, they would’ve been able to preempt the fun making. And they could’ve spinned it by saying the […]
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October 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Hot take: #Microsoft should’ve had the balls to just revive #clippy instead of introducing #MiCo.
Now everyone’s laughing that it’s Clippy 2.0 anyway, but if MS had been the ones calling it Clippy, they would’ve been able to preempt the fun making. And they could’ve spinned it by saying the […]
Now everyone’s laughing that it’s Clippy 2.0 anyway, but if MS had been the ones calling it Clippy, they would’ve been able to preempt the fun making. And they could’ve spinned it by saying the […]
I wrote a post on The Establishment of Self-Awareness on my blog about Philosophy of Balance: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/self-awareness
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#philosophy #philosophyofbalance #selfawareness #selfimprovement
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The Establishment of Self-Awareness
A short post on the importance of self-awareness and what we can do to reinforce it.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I wrote a post on The Establishment of Self-Awareness on my blog about Philosophy of Balance: https://philosophyofbalance.com/blog/self-awareness
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For the past few months I’ve been working on a new project, quite unlike any I did before. In an attempt to heal polarisation, to make people believe again, and to educate, I’ve embarked on a mission to create the #philosophy of Balance.
I’m writing a book on the topic, but for now I wish to […]
I’m writing a book on the topic, but for now I wish to […]
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October 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
For the past few months I’ve been working on a new project, quite unlike any I did before. In an attempt to heal polarisation, to make people believe again, and to educate, I’ve embarked on a mission to create the #philosophy of Balance.
I’m writing a book on the topic, but for now I wish to […]
I’m writing a book on the topic, but for now I wish to […]
Shower thought: `Cow` should really be named `Boo`.
Rust's `Cow` type was created for Copy-on-Write (CoW) use-cases, but more and more I find myself using it for random situations where I need a value that is either borrowed or owned. Boo.
#Rust/#Rustlang
Rust's `Cow` type was created for Copy-on-Write (CoW) use-cases, but more and more I find myself using it for random situations where I need a value that is either borrowed or owned. Boo.
#Rust/#Rustlang
September 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Shower thought: `Cow` should really be named `Boo`.
Rust's `Cow` type was created for Copy-on-Write (CoW) use-cases, but more and more I find myself using it for random situations where I need a value that is either borrowed or owned. Boo.
#Rust/#Rustlang
Rust's `Cow` type was created for Copy-on-Write (CoW) use-cases, but more and more I find myself using it for random situations where I need a value that is either borrowed or owned. Boo.
#Rust/#Rustlang
With this latest PR, inference for `noFloatingPromises` is pushed to over 80% success rate in Vercel's repositories: https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/6404
While I targeted specific patterns used by their own `swr` library, all the fixes are generically applicable, meaning other code […]
While I targeted specific patterns used by their own `swr` library, all the fixes are generically applicable, meaning other code […]
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June 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
With this latest PR, inference for `noFloatingPromises` is pushed to over 80% success rate in Vercel's repositories: https://github.com/biomejs/biome/pull/6404
While I targeted specific patterns used by their own `swr` library, all the fixes are generically applicable, meaning other code […]
While I targeted specific patterns used by their own `swr` library, all the fixes are generically applicable, meaning other code […]
With Biome v2 reaching ~75% accuracy for the `noFloatingPromises` rule, one might wonder, how?
* First of all keep in mind this is measured on a single (very large) repository. Yours might fare differently depending on libraries/patterns/etc..
* What you're seeing is a successful application of […]
* First of all keep in mind this is measured on a single (very large) repository. Yours might fare differently depending on libraries/patterns/etc..
* What you're seeing is a successful application of […]
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June 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
With Biome v2 reaching ~75% accuracy for the `noFloatingPromises` rule, one might wonder, how?
* First of all keep in mind this is measured on a single (very large) repository. Yours might fare differently depending on libraries/patterns/etc..
* What you're seeing is a successful application of […]
* First of all keep in mind this is measured on a single (very large) repository. Yours might fare differently depending on libraries/patterns/etc..
* What you're seeing is a successful application of […]
My Vercel contract is almost coming to an end, but I'm extremely happy that we managed to get to about 75% success rate for `noFloatingPromises` in our v2 release: https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v2/
The success rate is even slightly higher already in the `next` branch, and I still have 2 weeks […]
The success rate is even slightly higher already in the `next` branch, and I still have 2 weeks […]
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June 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My Vercel contract is almost coming to an end, but I'm extremely happy that we managed to get to about 75% success rate for `noFloatingPromises` in our v2 release: https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v2/
The success rate is even slightly higher already in the `next` branch, and I still have 2 weeks […]
The success rate is even slightly higher already in the `next` branch, and I still have 2 weeks […]
Asking the important questions: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/simplifying-iterator-method-implementations/130027
#Rust #rustlang #bikeshedding
#Rust #rustlang #bikeshedding
Simplifying iterator method implementations
On the chance of starting a bike shedding topic, I wanted to ask a simple, but serious question: Why are most methods of Iterator so complex? I mean, they're not hugely complex, but let's look at find_map() for example: fn find_map(&mut; self, f: F) -> Option**where Self: Sized, F: FnMut(Self::Item) -> Option**, { #[inline] fn check(mut f: impl FnMut(T) -> Option**) -> impl FnMut((), T) -> ControlFlow**{ move |(), x| match f(x) { Some(x) => ...
users.rust-lang.org
May 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Asking the important questions: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/simplifying-iterator-method-implementations/130027
#Rust #rustlang #bikeshedding
#Rust #rustlang #bikeshedding
Over the weekend, I wrote an overview of Biome's type architecture, including our motivation and a discussion of the constraints that led to this architecture: https://arendjr.nl/blog/2025/05/biome-type-architecture/
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#OpenSource #WebDev #tooling #JavaScript […]
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May 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Over the weekend, I wrote an overview of Biome's type architecture, including our motivation and a discussion of the constraints that led to this architecture: https://arendjr.nl/blog/2025/05/biome-type-architecture/
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Looks like your migration went well 😉
April 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Looks like your migration went well 😉
I'm now two weeks in on my work on @biomejs 's type inference and we can now resolve types in this code:
```ts
class DeepThought {
/* class members */
}
export const superComputer = new DeepThought();
```
It doesn't matter that `DeepThought` isn't being exported, or that the code is defined […]
```ts
class DeepThought {
/* class members */
}
export const superComputer = new DeepThought();
```
It doesn't matter that `DeepThought` isn't being exported, or that the code is defined […]
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mstdn.social
April 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I'm now two weeks in on my work on @biomejs 's type inference and we can now resolve types in this code:
```ts
class DeepThought {
/* class members */
}
export const superComputer = new DeepThought();
```
It doesn't matter that `DeepThought` isn't being exported, or that the code is defined […]
```ts
class DeepThought {
/* class members */
}
export const superComputer = new DeepThought();
```
It doesn't matter that `DeepThought` isn't being exported, or that the code is defined […]
Upgraded my #Email from GMail to the Dutch-based StartMail. I like that I can use a single account for my 3 domains at no extra cost.
Just be aware that it doesn’t offer calendar or contact sync, but given I have an iPhone too, I could easily move those to iCloud.
Just be aware that it doesn’t offer calendar or contact sync, but given I have an iPhone too, I could easily move those to iCloud.
March 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Upgraded my #Email from GMail to the Dutch-based StartMail. I like that I can use a single account for my 3 domains at no extra cost.
Just be aware that it doesn’t offer calendar or contact sync, but given I have an iPhone too, I could easily move those to iCloud.
Just be aware that it doesn’t offer calendar or contact sync, but given I have an iPhone too, I could easily move those to iCloud.
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I've just published a blog post that I'm looking for new challenges. Give it a read, click around to my blog for a while, and see what I might be able to do for you!
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/new-challenges-2025/
#rustlang #getfedihired
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/new-challenges-2025/
#rustlang #getfedihired
Looking for new challenges!
Once every while I use this blog to look for new challenges! Let me give a brief description of who I am, what I can do, and what I enjoy doing. …
blog.startifact.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I've just published a blog post that I'm looking for new challenges. Give it a read, click around to my blog for a while, and see what I might be able to do for you!
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/new-challenges-2025/
#rustlang #getfedihired
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/new-challenges-2025/
#rustlang #getfedihired
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🔥 eval-macro
- lets you write inline Rust code that gets evaluated at compile time to generate Rust code
- Combines the power of procedural macros with the ease of `macro_rules!`
Crate:
docs.rs/eval-macro/l...
Discussion:
www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/Wsa...
#rustlang
- lets you write inline Rust code that gets evaluated at compile time to generate Rust code
- Combines the power of procedural macros with the ease of `macro_rules!`
Crate:
docs.rs/eval-macro/l...
Discussion:
www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/Wsa...
#rustlang
March 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🔥 eval-macro
- lets you write inline Rust code that gets evaluated at compile time to generate Rust code
- Combines the power of procedural macros with the ease of `macro_rules!`
Crate:
docs.rs/eval-macro/l...
Discussion:
www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/Wsa...
#rustlang
- lets you write inline Rust code that gets evaluated at compile time to generate Rust code
- Combines the power of procedural macros with the ease of `macro_rules!`
Crate:
docs.rs/eval-macro/l...
Discussion:
www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/Wsa...
#rustlang
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Het is heel moeilijk te accepteren, maar we moeten ophouden onszelf te foppen met rare juridische argumenten, technische trucs & "hoop". Amerika & hun clouds zijn geen veilige plek meer meer om onze maatschappij en overheid op te laten draaien […]
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mastodon.nl
February 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Het is heel moeilijk te accepteren, maar we moeten ophouden onszelf te foppen met rare juridische argumenten, technische trucs & "hoop". Amerika & hun clouds zijn geen veilige plek meer meer om onze maatschappij en overheid op te laten draaien […]
Recent events in #Politics triggered me to write a manifesto on the values of #Democracy and what we can to do preserve them: https://arendjr.nl/blog/2025/02/new-monarchy/
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New Monarchy: A Rethinking of the Values of Democracy
New Monarchy is based on a union of districts, each governed by a monarchy. Monarchies are constrained by a constitution to guarantee citizen rights, including the right to depose unjust or unfit rulers, while districts are sworn to protect each other's constitution.
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February 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Recent events in #Politics triggered me to write a manifesto on the values of #Democracy and what we can to do preserve them: https://arendjr.nl/blog/2025/02/new-monarchy/
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Another exciting #biome development: I just opened a PR for our first **multi-file analysis rule: `noImportCycles`**
There is still some other tasks I need to do to complete the multi-file analysis, but hopefully this means we've also reached the point where contributors can chime in and […]
There is still some other tasks I need to do to complete the multi-file analysis, but hopefully this means we've also reached the point where contributors can chime in and […]
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mstdn.social
January 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Another exciting #biome development: I just opened a PR for our first **multi-file analysis rule: `noImportCycles`**
There is still some other tasks I need to do to complete the multi-file analysis, but hopefully this means we've also reached the point where contributors can chime in and […]
There is still some other tasks I need to do to complete the multi-file analysis, but hopefully this means we've also reached the point where contributors can chime in and […]
After watching #blackdoves , I can’t help but wonder how many women get falsely accused of cheating by their partners, while really, they are just spies instead 🤔
December 26, 2024 at 8:19 PM
After watching #blackdoves , I can’t help but wonder how many women get falsely accused of cheating by their partners, while really, they are just spies instead 🤔