Ton Zijlstra 🇪🇺 @ton@m.tzyl.nl

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I got featured in the Micro Monday podcast by Micro.blog's @macgenie, in which I briefly talk about blogging, birthday unconferences, #IndieWeb etc. https://monday.micro.blog/2019/11/11/ton-zylstra-aka.html

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/micro-monday-podcast-conversation/

#conversation #microblog #podcast

Op #DojoConNL van @CoderDojoNL gaf ik afgelopen zaterdag een presentatie over wanneer maken als een superkracht voelt, en de morele verantwoordelijkheden van een #maker Mijn werk aan Impact door Connectie met @wijzijnfers was het startpunt https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/handelingsvermogen-in-en-met-je-omgeving-coderdojo-conferentie-2019/ #creativecommons #techpledge #indieweb

17 yrs ago today I started blogging. Some reflections on my tech advocacy (#indieweb #indiewebcamp #techpledge #infosec #ethicsbydesign and more) in the past yr.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/17-years-of-blogging/

Today 17 years ago, at 14:07, I published my first blog post, and some 2000 followed since then. Previously I kept a website that archive.org traces back to early 1998, which was the second incarnation of a static website from 1997 (Demon Internet, my first ISP other than my university, entered the Dutch market in November 1996, and I became their customer at the earliest opportunity. From the start they gave their customers

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/17-years-of-blogging/

Human life expectancy is ~80. A company's life expectancy ~15 yrs. When companies disappear they will take your data down with them. You can use platforms for reach and collaboration, but also having your own 'mothership' to host your original material is ~5x as sustainable. #indieweb

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/11/10804/

#IndieWeb

Following @dshanske 's example I've documented how my WordPress is set up for easy (self) reference. #IndieWeb

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/10592/

#IndieWeb #wordpress

Join the SciFi Economics lab on November 11th in Brussels w @edgeryders and @doctorow. Secure your ticket here: https://bit.ly/ScifiEconLab
Let's explore the economics needed for our complex 21st century challenges

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/10573/

#brussels #economics #sf

Looking forward to speaking @coderdojonl DojoCon19 next week. Watched a cool keynote vid today by @felienne who will speak at DojoCon too, on teaching programming.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/teaching-programming/

#coderdojo #education #pedagogy #programming

The slides and transcript of my talk about #creativecommons during the #OpenAccess Week #oaw19 program of Leeuwarden's public and higher ed libraries.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/open-access-week-2019-in-leeuwarden-on-creative-commons/

#bibliotheek #Leeuwarden #oaw19 #openaccess

Taking a stroll through archive.org I realised it has my old 2003-2008 postings on a different URL in Dutch and Germany, and 33 postings on energy transition from 2004-2006. Now contemplating to bring them 'home', so I have all content in my main blog. #indieweb

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/10419/

dear recaptcha tools enlisting me in training your visual recognition machine learning models: fire hydrants are not globally ubiquitous. You can't assume e.g. European users will recognise US street furniture.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/10357/

Dumbed down my site's language support, so that Google Translate actually picks up the correct language setting for most pages. Lesson learned: Google never checks for language mark-up, only the default setting or in its absence the primary result of a ML model.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/adding-better-language-support-ii/

#google #googletranslate #multilingual

Lezenswaardig weblog over service design research bij DUO v @manuelame Iedereen rond digitale transformatie bij de overheid: toevoegen aan je feedreader! (dank @alper voor de tip)

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/9894/

Van de belastingdienst de brief met nieuw BTW-nummer gekregen. Een langdurige doorn in het oog opgelost: niet langer verplicht mijn BSN nummer overal laten slingeren omdat het in mijn BTW-nummer zit.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/9879/

#avg #btw #gdpr

Date Ethics Baby Steps: how being there at the start of writing regulation allowed better data collection and less friction, making the ethical thing the most efficient thing. #ethicsbydesign

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/data-ethics-baby-steps/

#dataethics #ethicsbydesign

MacOS Catalina update junks my Scansnap scanner as 'legacy'. So no OS updates for a while to keep using my peripheral hardware. Check which software you use daily that gets dumped by MacOS 64bit.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/64bit-macos-update-ruins-some-software/

#catalina #macos

Verbazingwekkend hoe 40 jaar nadat openbaarheid het absolute uitgangspunt van de wet is geworden (openbaar, tenzij), de WOB en de aankomende WOO vooral nog altijd kramp veroorzaakt. #overheid360

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/9777/

Don't depend on subscription model software. You can and will be cut off. Adobe locks out Venezuelan customers due to August 5th US embargo.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/10/9753/

#adobe #usa