Tommy van der Vorst

In order to understand complexity, a good strategy is always to take something apart and try to rebuild it. This is exactly what a few volunteers, lead by a former Safari developer, set out to do. They are building SerenityOS, a full-fledged operating system, and Ladybird, a web browser, from …

Syncthing is a great piece of open source software that allows you to synchronize folders of files across your devices, without relying on cloud providers such as Dropbox and OneDrive. One scenario it supports is synchronization between a trusted device (e.g. your own laptop) and an untrusted device (e.g. a …

To interact with traditional IT systems an LLM would have to consume and produce data in a strictly defined format. LLMs typically have no issue ingesting all sorts of (mixed) data – not only do the LLMs accept natural language, these languages may be mixed and contain spelling errors! An LLM …

Action sells ‘key finder’ key fobs for as low as €2-3. These key fobs are designed to be used in conjunction with a smartphone app that can do a few things. For example, you can tell the keyfob to make a sound, which comes in handy when you misplaced your …

Sometimes innovations come along that are just a bit too far ahead of their time. One of these are Java applets. Back in 2003 (i was fifteen!) I came across a web page that showed a Java applet rendering 3D scenes in real-time. To learn C++ I downloaded the source …

In a study commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dialogic finds that between 296 and 726 new antenna sites (which, in many cases, are shared between operators) are necessary over the coming six years. Until 2027, we do not expect deployment of large-scale small cell structures (as seen …