Mastodawn

The nearest supermarket is 110 metres from my home.
The railway station is 750 metres away.
My bicycle in Utrecht lives in the world's largest bicycle parking garage.

This week's post and video explain how I've managed to live most of my life without owning a car.

https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/can-you-live-without-a-car/

Can you live without a car?

When you live in a very car-dependent society, it might be hard to imagine, but you can live without owning a car. I’ve done so for almost my entire life. I did learn to drive, back in 1984, but I …

BICYCLE DUTCH

Leon Overweel May 18

jimray May 7

As usual, @simon is so good at putting his finger on how things have shifted in this specific moment (as in literally early May 2026) in software development.

https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Leon Overweel May 11

Natasha

🇪🇺May 9

Oh my, this is spectacularly to the point -

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived

Leon Overweel May 11

Ionica Smeets May 8

Met diverse verwijzingen naar discussies op het fijne mathstodon.xyz! [DPG]

https://www.volkskrant.nl/cs-bd93d78e/

Marshmallows, eikels en appels: hoe moet de wiskunde als vakgebied omgaan met al die nieuwe AI-bewijzen?

de Volkskrant

Leon Overweel May 3

Following Ars Technica is like...

- Deep dive on space policy developments
- Chip architecture explainer
- Technical analysis of new operating system release
- Review of a new EV charging setup
...
- “Amoebas eat man alive over months in puzzling, ultra-rare cautionary tale”

Leon Overweel Apr 30

Show thread

Anil Dash Apr 30

Check out Hank's timeline app here: http://artemistimeline.com and his video about the project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZE9VWJjDA

Artemis II Photo Timeline

An interactive photo timeline of NASA's Artemis II mission — scrub through every crew moment, lunar flyby shot, and audio clip from April 1–10, 2026.

Leon Overweel Apr 28

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116477351524980995

Interesting perspective on AI from the mathematical community, which rhymes with the discussions around the value of “taste” in the software engineering community — the highest value-add work is shifting from writing good code by hand (hunter-gathering raw ingredients in a food-scarce society) to steering / scaffolding / scrutinizing agents in your context so they output good code at scale (home cooking in a food-abundant society).

Leon Overweel Apr 10

kottke.org Apr 10

Charcuterie is a visual Unicode symbol explorer. Click around, search, or use the pencil in the upper left to draw the shape you’re looking for. This is very cool. https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/

Charcuterie

A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.

Charcuterie

Leon Overweel Apr 10

Jaap Burger Apr 10

There are now more battery-electric cars in the Dutch fleet than diesel cars.

https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/maatwerk/2026/14/nederlandse-personenauto-s-stand-1-1-2019-t-m-1-1-2026
#EV #Diesel

Leon Overweel Apr 4

Mark McCaughrean Apr 3

You'll likely catch this image a million times in your various feeds: Earth as seen by Reid Wiseman from Artemis II en-route to the Moon.

My first thought? That's *really* noisy 🧐

But then I realised – it's the *nightside* of Earth, illuminated by the almost full Moon, not the Sun 🌕

The bright limb at lower-right is where the dayside starts, & the fact that you can see aurorae, airglow, & cities in Europe, Africa, & S & N America also gives the game away.

Cool.

#Photography #Artemis