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Last night an AI saved my life. Well, not literally, and not even last night. But I really believe it saved the browser engine project I’ve been working on for years. We are steadily going through all …

I have always lived by the mantra “Make things work, make things right, make things fast”. It’s a great way to approach software development, and it has served me well over the years. Lately, though, …

Elliptic curves often feel like mathematical magic. Somehow, with relatively simple arithmetic operations on points, we can build secure cryptographic systems. But the underlying ideas are actually …

For years I had a small private page on my machine with a bunch of hacky tools for day-to-day crypto work. Hashing a string, base64 encoding something, generating a random key. Nothing fancy. Just …

There is a lot going on in the world regarding age verification. Why does every website or operating system (and possibly later: smart appliances like your fridge??) need to know your age? While I …

First of all, please understand that I’m someone who has a clear way of visualizing my thoughts, but struggles to communicate them verbally or through written text like posts. Being Dutch already …

Almost 40 years ago, in 1985, a game was released for the Commodore 64 called “Eindeloos” (“Endless”, in dutch). In this game you needed to find your way around a labyrinth while avoiding all kind of …

Three months ago, I wrote a small story about being fed up with things and trying to do something about it. Three months in, we’ve got a small community sharing the same goal: let’s try writing a …

This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.

“That’s just like, your opinion, man” - the dude Here’s a list of 100 opinions I hold. These are opinions, not hard facts or truths. There will be many people disagreeing with some of them, maybe even …