sijmen
@sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 29 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating
politics and gen ai are depressing, but i can't not talk about them. i do my best to cw them.
currently working on fedilite, a server-side rendered simple mastodon api client
git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite
#TransRights #StopFascism
"you're not having an original hit bro, you're having a cache hit"
Pronouns
he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL) Accept-Language
en;q=1, nl;q=1, de;q=0.5
i'll always love the dutch warning sign for slippery conditions.
in most countries, the tracks just wiggle around a bit. in the netherlands, the car just did a full 180 and is about to tip over
@jeder was is'n das für'n kombi‽
@junk congrats, you win the first teary eyed laugh of 2026
getting tailgated in black ice prone conditions ✅
day 2 of no processed sugar january:
aaaaa the cravings aaaa
@novenary haha yes
i've got an industrialppc in my PC, and it shoots up to 3000rpm on boot. at 140mm that moves a lot of air lol
pet peeve: blue christmas lights. blue is not a christmas colour. christmas is green and red, and a bunch of warm colours
also blue leds are just jarring
@jwildeboer Do you still do the occasional set now, or have you left that in the '90s?
@neauoire 10 years?! that's cool as shit. being on the water for a longer period of time definitely is a bullet list thing
@krist @jwildeboer "I like this and it's important to me" -"Yeah but it sucks" ah yes the internet
@snow so does mine, looking very aesthetic in the process! (feat. my hair)
@foone i wonder how far into production the blister strips get cut up into sizes the we know
today we explained a german the difference between /ei/ and /ij/ in dutch (or rather, the lack of it)
is the kernel for gaussian blur a smooth operator?
@zaki toxicity in my github issue comments? never
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@eniko i mean this is fedi isn't this what binds us together
@jwildeboer oh this looks very neat, I've been needing an S3 store
I love that search engines just guess what I meant and run with that, instead of offering a "did you mean: stopwatch"