I wrote an essay:

• Knowledge bases and why they never work Enjoy. Let me know what you think.

An evening stroll
I was walking my dog the other day when we ran into the magpie

"Good morning magpie", I said
"Good morning", the magpie said
"I LOOOOOVE GOLD", the magpie said
"I LOOOVE SHINY THINGS", the magpie said
"I LOVE GOLD AND SHINY THINGS AND ALUMINUM FOIL AND SILVER AS WELL AND ...",

"I know", I said, "You're a magpie. Magpies like that stuff"

"WE LOOOOOVE THAT STUFF MAN", the magpie said

I nodded and went after my dog who was a bit ahead of me

"Oh", the magpie said, "you coming to the bbq tonight?"
"I'm coming", I said

trimsalon boef, Vogelparadijs (de humor ligt op straat mensen)

I am porting my essays from Medium and my old internal only blogs to this site. While combing through the archives, I ran into a presentation I did for the Dutch FOSS4G chapter, in 2018: How to build your own Remote Sensing company.

It's interesting to see how much of it still holds. Like the Cloud Native trend. That is still very much true. Or how, at that time, we were already thinking about building a continuously update commodity map of the world. Nice idea. Never happened. Still working on it 10 years later.

I would argue that even the statements in the final slide, why you will fail, are still mostly true. With the exception of clouds, haze and sensor artefacts. Still a problem but those will disappear in the foreseeable future.

Goodbye stuff that happened in the past.

Oh, hyena's, baboons and piranhas are cool.

Hacker's paradise:

A lack of digital know-how can be found in surprisingly high places, too. In 2018 Japan’s then cyber-security minister made headlines by admitting he had never used a computer in his life.

camping in Japan

All the manuals and tutorials and blogs say you need one topic, stay consistent, stay focused to grow an audience. But I don't think humans are like that. Humans are not one-dimensional. They like tech AND reading. They like poetry AND bike riding. They like remote sensing AND food. That's why I write this blog they way I do. I write about stuff that I, as a human, find interesting, inspiring, infuriating.

I might not grow a huge audience that way, but I do meet fellow humans.

Like this person, sharing their thoughts:

Really enjoyed the blog entry where you mention the Tsundoku and antilibrary. Always laugh with my sister prompting how are our Tsundokus going. Next time  am going to flip it to how is your 'antilibrary ingestion system going'.

"Take me out on a stretcher."

Thank you humanity. You are still there. The machine still has a long way to go to wipe us out.

We are with few, but we are there.

it's a small step from boef to beef