Latest blog posts
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Verifying your age in a privacy preserving manner
Date: 27 Apr 2026
Tags: [ sd-jwt ] [ privacy ]
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 don’t agree with a generic “think of the children” excuse, I do understand that there are certain sites you want to restrict for younger ages, like adult and gambling sites. But are we really willing to scan our ID cards and post them to those sites? Or, possibly worse, have a provider with a centralized database containing all these ID cards? Privacy AND security hell.
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Posting on the internet freightens me
Tags: [ posting ]
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 brings a certain directness or bluntness into the mix, so when I try to be concise, it can sometimes come across as me being an a-hole. Sometimes that’s probably true, but most of the time, it’s not meant that way. It’s something I’ve been struggling with for about 48 trips around the sun. So I’m not trying to paint people in a bad light in this post.
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Tags: [ c64, game, 6502, assembly ]
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 enemies and obstacles. The map was so huge, that it was almost impossible to finish the game. It truly was endless for most players.
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
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 browser.
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
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.
Date: 27 Apr 2026