wouter bolsterlee
@wbolster.nl
software dev by day 🧑🏼💻, musician by night 🎶🎹🎷, human being throughout 🙃
music, tech, society, urbanism, future of the planet, ally 👗🏳️🌈✊🏿🇺🇦
🏠 the hague, netherlands 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍
🗣️ english, dutch
🤓 https://github.com/wbolster
music, tech, society, urbanism, future of the planet, ally 👗🏳️🌈✊🏿🇺🇦
🏠 the hague, netherlands 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍
🗣️ english, dutch
🤓 https://github.com/wbolster
l u x u r y 🎯
the luxury of not having a car
November 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
l u x u r y 🎯
ja, dit is deels een #nerdvote (nerdvote.nl), maar het gaat natuurlijk ook om het grotere plaatje, want de digitale wereld raakt ons allemaal 💚♥️
October 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ja, dit is deels een #nerdvote (nerdvote.nl), maar het gaat natuurlijk ook om het grotere plaatje, want de digitale wereld raakt ons allemaal 💚♥️
🎯 mijn voorkeurstem heb je en ik lobby bij familie en kennissen voor meer! ♥️💚
October 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🎯 mijn voorkeurstem heb je en ik lobby bij familie en kennissen voor meer! ♥️💚
emacs magit has completion for that while typing commit messages, using existing commit authors, which covers most use cases in practice. maybe other tools have sth similar?
October 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
emacs magit has completion for that while typing commit messages, using existing commit authors, which covers most use cases in practice. maybe other tools have sth similar?
fyi, stumbled upon this today:
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/a...
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/a...
After the AI boom: what might we be left with? | Rob Bowley
blog.robbowley.net
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
fyi, stumbled upon this today:
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/a...
blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/a...
painstakingly using (self-hosted) @gitlab.com's dependency proxy everywhere didn't help either. quite disappointing actually since it's supposed to work apparently? 🤷🏼 😠 see pic & gitlab.com/gitlab-org/g...
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
painstakingly using (self-hosted) @gitlab.com's dependency proxy everywhere didn't help either. quite disappointing actually since it's supposed to work apparently? 🤷🏼 😠 see pic & gitlab.com/gitlab-org/g...
yeah, same feelings here (no kids though 😌), and though i am a cynical person, i also consider optimism a moral imperative. bsky.app/profile/wbol...
sad and relieved to be a reasonable person 😔
‘Finally, there’s the doomerism that comes from political frustration, from believing that people who have power are just happy to burn the world down. [That's] the most reasonable kind of doomerism.’ – Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social #climate
‘Finally, there’s the doomerism that comes from political frustration, from believing that people who have power are just happy to burn the world down. [That's] the most reasonable kind of doomerism.’ – Genevieve Guenther @doctorvive.bsky.social #climate
‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
yeah, same feelings here (no kids though 😌), and though i am a cynical person, i also consider optimism a moral imperative. bsky.app/profile/wbol...
it's painful to read and i really hope it doesn't pan out like that, but tbh i fear the worst
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
it's painful to read and i really hope it doesn't pan out like that, but tbh i fear the worst
you may find this @tante.cc article interesting: tante.cc/2025/04/15/t...
> The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
> The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
These are not the same
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is ...
tante.cc
October 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
you may find this @tante.cc article interesting: tante.cc/2025/04/15/t...
> The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
> The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
but the good thing is that it forced you to write your code in a way that would also scale to multiple processes on multiple machines in multiple datacenters on multiple continents. better be prepared b/c every project will of course become the new amzn/goog/msft 😜
October 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
but the good thing is that it forced you to write your code in a way that would also scale to multiple processes on multiple machines in multiple datacenters on multiple continents. better be prepared b/c every project will of course become the new amzn/goog/msft 😜