Gerrit Niezen @gendor@merveilles.town
Maker of open-source software and hardware
Joined Jun 2019
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Good morning! I'm Gerrit. #intro #introductions
I'm into decentralized networks, open source hardware, modular design, distributed manufacturing, appropriate technology and solarpunk.
I spend most of my time liberating data from diabetes devices like insulin pumps and blood glucose meters, writing open-source software for tidepool.org.
I would like to spend more time growing food and building hardware to support that, and I hope to find inspiration here in the Merveilles.town community.
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A well-argued piece from @slightlyoff as to why we need to bring more capability to web, and why the privacy concerns brought up by Mozilla and Apple are kind of a red herring.
https://infrequently.org/2020/06/platform-adjacency-theory/
My brief time in W3C-land was filled with people yelling 'but fingerprinting!' any time someone proposed something useful. (Fingerprinting is the idea that the more features your browser exposes, the easier it is for a third party to track you as an individual collection of features.)
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Very pumped for the next issue of the N-O-D-E zine
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Taking a deep dive into MTP https://gerritniezen.com/taking-a-deep-dive-into-mtp
Is it just me, or is the home timeline not updating?
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Baking bread with very little effort https://gerritniezen.com/baking-bread-with-very-little-effort
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RT @modacitylife
While the rest of the world wrings their hands over bike safety, the Dutch are quietly—and quite happily—living their lives on two wheels.
They are undeniable proof that cycling itself isn’t a dangerous activity; it’s the car-first street design that often makes it so.
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Making Habanero hot sauce https://gerritniezen.com/making-habanero-hot-sauce
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Making a Hide & Seek mobile web app https://gerritniezen.com/making-a-hide-and-seek-mobile-web-app
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Making my own webcam: Part 3 https://gerritniezen.com/making-my-own-webcam-part-3
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Making my own webcam: Part 2 https://gerritniezen.com/making-my-own-webcam-part-2
I've been playing around with Web NFC this evening, so I thought I'd write up a quick tutorial on how to use it: https://gerritniezen.com/getting-started-with-web-nfc
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Making something for the Stay-at-home TH/NGS Jam https://gerritniezen.com/making-something-for-the-stay-at-home-th-ngs-jam
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Doing yoga in lockdown https://gerritniezen.com/doing-yoga-in-lockdown
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Making a strainer lid for sprouts https://gerritniezen.com/making-a-strainer-lid-for-sprouts
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Making chocolate mousse from aquafaba https://gerritniezen.com/making-chocolate-mousse-from-aquafaba
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Trying out a distraction-free phone https://gerritniezen.com/trying-out-a-distraction-free-phone
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Doing one thing well https://gerritniezen.com/doing-one-thing-well
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An AI created my lunch today.. https://gerritniezen.com/an-ai-created-my-lunch-today
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Repetition is better than new experiences https://gerritniezen.com/repetition-is-better-than-new-experiences
Maker of open-source software and hardware
Joined Jun 2019
