Marius Coomans

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Mmm... A bit about me, ehh... Retired ex techie, ex Dutch, ex sailor. Lives in Darug country. Still builds and maintains some websites. https://coomans.com Interests: #jsbach, #blaxland #birds #agedcare, #webdev, #familyhistory, #mjq
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home townBlaxland NSW Australia
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Marius Coomans3d ago
Wonderful concert this afternoon by the Sydney Cantata Project. #notbach #Buxtehude Great, youthful enthusiasm for old music.
Marius Coomans4d ago
Even after 59 years, some Dutch customs are hard to eradicate.... In the weeks before Easter, you need to listen to the St Matthew Passion by #bach #jsbach
The following performance is special, the last one by conductor Jos van Velthoven (includes inteviews and prelude) and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging
https://npo.nl/start/afspelen/matthaus-passion_9
Matthäus-Passion | NPO Start

Uitvoering van de Matthäus-Passion van Johann Sebastian Bach vanuit de Grote Kerk van Naarden door de Nederlandse Bachvereniging o.l.v. Jos van Veldhoven, die enkele uren eerder die dag plaatsvond. De Matthäus-Passion op Goede Vrijdag in Naarden is het hoogtepunt van de jaarlijkse tournee van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging. En dit wordt een heel speciale uitvoering. Want dirigent Jos van Veldhoven neemt na 35 jaar afscheid als artistiek leider van de Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Voor deze bijzondere gelegenheid blikt hij samen met Paul Witteman terug op zijn lange periode als artistiek leider van een van 's werelds meest prestigieuze Bach-instituten. Wat is er in deze tijd allemaal veranderd? Beziet hij als Bachvorser de Matthäus-Passion nu heel anders dan 35 jaar geleden?

NPO Start
Marius CoomansMar 9
When the world seems to be at an end, there are always Bach's Goldberg variations...
And then, they play it on a couple of guitars! Wow! #bach #GoldbergVariations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxqNzYPBn6s
J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Two Guitars) - Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière - Complete Album

YouTube
Marius CoomansMar 7

For years I thought Cory Doctarow was a bit extreme. But looking at the junkheap pretending to be useful social media:

"The promise of locked-down mobile platforms was that they were going to "just work," without any of the confusing customization options of desktop OSes. It turns out that taking away those confusing customization options was an invitation to every enshittifier to turn the web into an unreadable, extractive, nagging mess"

I agree and going back to using RSS where at all practical.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/07/reader-mode/#personal-disenshittification

Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Marius CoomansFeb 20
Robert ReichFeb 20
Marius CoomansFeb 11
Damn...
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/10/lenore-taylor-resigns-as-guardian-australia-editor-after-10-years-of-leadership?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Lenore Taylor resigns as Guardian Australia editor after 10 years of leadership

Australia’s longest-serving editor credited with transforming a fledgling news organisation into the fourth most-read news website

The Guardian
Marius CoomansFeb 9
Tjeerd RoyaardsFeb 9

Winter Olympics of the future. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#WinterOlympics #Olympics #climate #sustainability

Marius CoomansJan 23
Sam Roggeveen in this morning's Saturday Paper... "Australia is effectively already alone. Now we need to start acting like it."
Marius CoomansJan 15
XKCD BotJan 13
I wanted to make the world's fastest yawl, so I made the aft sail bigger, but apparently that means it's not a yawl anymore! It's a real ketch-22.
https://xkcd.com/3193/
Marius CoomansDec 31
We learnt a wonderful custom when visiting Japan some years back: Get up early on New Years Day to watch the sun rise on the new year... Sunrise wasn't spectacular this year, but then...