📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Back home from #Fronteers "Dark Mode" evening conference, MC'd by @bram.us - taking a moment to share my sketch notes in this thread before tucking in!

Wrote a (Dutch) blogpost for Infi... 👀😁

📢 The State of HTML Survey is live survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... The #HTML and #CSS surveys are the only web surveys I don't want to miss. Thank you @sachagreif.com for making them, and @lea.verou.me for curating. Please take a few minutes to fill the survey if/when you can. ✨

Google's Gemini has given me answers to completely different and highly specific questions than what I asked about, twice in a short timespan now. I'd hazard a guess they have some threading / isolation / whatever bug, where we get answers to questions *other* users have asked. 🫠

Surprised that we don't see more supply chain attacks via vscode extensions. 🤔 I follow hackernews somewhat regularly and would've expected more incidents, especially given the "Auto Update" default for extensions + elevated level they run at. (knocks-on-wood)

Sharepoint's Folder/File server UX on the web is absolute nuts 🤯 Moving files into sub-folders is considered "advanced" and requires a separate screen, browser back/next navigation does *not* work, open-in-new-tab for files and folders doesn't work, etc. </rant> 😅

Looking back, I've written a total of 40 blogposts for @infi.nl's blog in the past 8 years, so roughly 5 posts per year. Enjoyed writing all of those! Archived all of them too, which was good because some old ones got cut/lost in a migration 😅

Onboarding in a new domain, made a glossary for myself. Asked for feedback from the team, giving me back-to-school vibes 😅... hoping I'll "pass the exam" 😂

Roughly 1 out of 10 projects I'll use Pen & Paper for notes. Didn't realize folks I only know through that project tend to think that I'm "fully analog" which tends to surprise people 😅 (When I use pen & paper I digitize -or throw away- notes shortly afterwards.)

Great session by @dedependance.eu where @evelynaustin.bsky.social and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social spoke about Signal, surveillance, AI, and more! Well organized! 💯🎉 Today I also tried to absorb insights through sketch noting, giving an impression of what was discussed:

Thread with my sketch notes for @joyofcoding.bsky.social's #JoyOfCoding 2025 conference incoming.... ⬇️😊

Looking forward to #JoyOfCoding 2025! Have missed a couple of editions, but was always happy and inspired when I did visit in the past 😊

Trying out Wiremock and MockServiceWorker and both in their own ways are equally magical and frustrating. The frustration part is driving me towards a bare-bones homebrew mock server with expressjs or dotnet. :/

Talking to 5th or 6th line support on a cloud provider issue we have. If "Seven Degrees of Separation" also holds for engineering support, then I must just about be talking to the actual engineers building this resource? Would've called it 'fun', were it not for the 12 hours invested so far :/

Have *not* enjoyed Ubuntu over these past months. Bricked the video drivers now too. Not fixing this, taking this as a sign to try another distro (Pop_OS) instead.

Paused to try the hype that is the new 4o-based image generation, and I must say: It's pretty darn good!! (For what it is.) 😁

Speaking at the #NimmaCodes cross-language user group this Tuesday 😊 - Decided to make some Sketch Notes of the talk beforehand and post it as a teaser, contains minor spoilers of course 😉

Rewatching a recording of my presentation to improve for the next iteration.... Dang, this never seems to get easy (watching yourself on stage)? Wonder what % of public speakers get "over" this feeling?

Enjoyd #DPC25 + AppDevCon + WebDevCon today! Posted my Sketch Notes over at Mastodon: mastodon.social/@jeroenheijm...

My recent work got described as "...and Jeroen is doing Jeroen-things.", and it seemed everyone felt informed and content with that. Best. Compliment. Ever! 😅

Got curious about [Matrix] at #FOSDEM so I created an account on my phone... but it's absolutely unusable in a mobile browser!? There was a dismissible notification that my browser was unsupported (whut!?) and no alternative in sight? Applaud the idea, but this UX won't drive adoption...

Taking a short #FOSDEM break with the glory of ANC headphones and my yearly Club-Mate... (While jealously eye-balling all those Belgian specialty beers around me 😅)

My #FOSDEM 2025 day 2 sketch notes thread is up on Mastodon if you're interested! mastodon.social/@jeroenheijm... Here's roughly how I work:

#FOSDEM brunch of champions 😅

Will post most of my #FOSDEM updates over on Mastodon, if you care I'm at mastodon.social/@jeroenheijm...

En route to Bruxelles for #FOSDEM this weekend, got a day of sightseeing and chilling first 🇧🇪 😊

I see a *lot* of value in estimations for backlog items, just not too much for "velocity" or estimating deliveries. The main reason: in *all* my projects past few years the metric "stories/week" was perfectly indicative and linearly correlated with the team size. Use that instead!

SSH'd into a server where 'nano' somehow redirected to 'vim', took me a second before I understood what was going on.

I (for now) persist in using DuckDuckGo by default, but lately 80% of all searches I have to throw "!g" at it and find that Google just has extremely more relevant results. I just hope that these "!g" queries helps the team fix quality issues.

The 2024 Unofficial #AdventOfCode Survey results have been published! 🎄⭐️⭐️🎉😊 Available at: jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-co... Some highlights: C++ taking 3rd place, JavaScript dropping behind Java, Neovim further chipping away at vim, and a ton of wholesomeness in the "Other..." answers! <3

Postponing my final #AdventOfCode stars so I can work on finalizing the Survey Results today or tomorrow. 😁 Preliminary results showing some interesting trends already! 🧐 Still some work to do though, including accessible descriptions of the graphs. Stay tuned!

We were blessed by @was.tl for the 10th (!!) year in a row with another awesome #AdventOfCode edition 😊 - and it's the 7th year I run the unofficial/community AoC Survey! Here's a reminder to fill it out before it closes (~Dec 22nd) 😉 Survey at: forms.gle/iX1mkrt17c6Z...

Cinematic trailer for The Witcher 4 looks awesome 😍 (although it tells us nearly nothing about the actual game, but that's fine I suppose...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=54da...

Was curious to check the public #Sora release but apparently "Not available in NL yet", or any other EU country it seems... help.openai.com/en/articles/... Makes you wonder if some EU privacy rules are by (side-)effect shielding me from something fishy? 😅

The difficulty curve for 2024 #AdventOfCode is *spot on* for me! No huge spikes so far but overall a gradual increase. <3 (Famous last words? 😅)

In case you've missed it, a reminder: My yearly (unofficial) #AdventOfCode Survey is up! Fill it out (only once, please) at forms.gle/iX1mkrt17c6Z... - and spread the word! <3

Sketch notes thread for today's @tweakers.net Developers Summit, kicking off with notes on Daniel Simu's "Robot Got Talent" presentation and demo! Sparse notes because the acrobatics demo with the robot was absolutely amazing! 🤩 #tweakers #devsumit

It's Dec 1st in UTC so time to unleash the Unofficial #AdventOfCode Participant Survey! 🎄 If you participate in AoC, consider filling out the survey (only once!) at forms.gle/iX1mkrt17c6Z... Feel free to reshare! 💛💛

Been a little while, but last week I was on stage again at a meetup. This time to speak about "The Essential Soft Skills in Tech", at the #DomCode and #OdeToCode cross-over meetup in Utrecht! 😊 A few folks have suggested I submit the presentation to other user groups too, considering that now... 👀

Got the yearly 'unofficial' #AdventOfCode survey lined up and ready again! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ While you wait for December (and the survey) to hit you can browse last-year's results here => jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-co...

Wasn't sure it would be ready in time, but there's a new #AdventOfCode shop up! (and it already has objects with the new 2024 design) cottonbureau.com/people/adven...

I love that #CSS now has an official logo, that the logo uses RebeccaPurple as its main background color, and that it comes with usage guidance to make sure it is used in an accessible manner 💯 github.com/CSS-Next/log... Also enjoyed reading some of the background that lead to choosing this logo.

Onze jaarlijkse #AdventOfCode avonturen komen er weer aan! 🎄😁 En we zijn, zoals elk jaar, weer sponsor! Op 1 december unlockt onze "Tribute" / sponsor-puzzel, als je wat extra's wilt... ⭐⭐⭐ In deze blogpost lees je over de Meetup (10 DEC!) de voorbereidingen die we troffen: infi.nl/nieuws/adven...

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal. It's time to #FreeJavaScript. deno.com/blog/deno-v-...

Allright... let's do this "domain name handle" thing. (Though I preferred Mastodon's "rel=me" verification options.)

Would be swell if Bluesky added proper 2FA with TOTP 😅🙏🏻 - then again surely nothing could go wrong with the current situation, right 😛

Hello world! Curious to see if Bluesky is any good. I welcome any healthy alternative to the bird app I suppose. Note: the main way to interact with me on socials for now would still probably be on Mastodon at @[email protected] though!