I wanted to find out what the current state-of-art of the current largest LLM models is. There are great and many standardised ways to test the quality of any LLM model, but I wanted an easier way. I stumbled upon a seemingly simple logic t…
I wanted to find out what the current state-of-art of the current largest LLM models is. There are great and many standardised ways to test the quality of any LLM model, but I wanted an easier way. I stumbled upon a seemingly simple logic t…
Dit jaar introduceerde de Rijksoverheid plannen voor extra huurregulering om zo te zorgen voor meer betaalbare woningen. Het idee is om woningen die nu in de vrije sector vallen ook te gaan reguleren en de huurprijs te limiteren. Dit nieuwe…
With more people working from home and a shortage of employees collecting garbage, it is becoming more and more common to see piles of waste near garbage containers in the streets of Amsterdam. The result: bad smells, an ugly sight of waste…
In 2018 I wrote how I launched Mailbook together with two friends. Fast forward 3 years and lots has changed. Bram and Emiel parted the project, while I kept on looking for a business model for the project. A year ago I noticed lots of traf…
Loom built a really easy tool to record your screen together with a recording of yourself. Great for creating and sharing screen recordings on issues or solutions. I've been a paying user myself for a while now. During Covid I recorded educ…
A great way to keep on learning about your field of expertise is by looking into what others are doing in your industry. Luckily for SEO most of the activity can be exposed from the outside: links, content, technical setup, rankings and sma…
Google recently introduced website icons next to its organic search results. It comes together with an overall new search results design that blends the paid ads into the organic results even more. Paid ads look identical except for an 'Ads…
How Google created a supervising algorithm to precisely control all search traffic it sends out. I’ve been spending the past 10 years watching, analysing and interpreting the search results on a daily basis. I’ve reviewed over 10 billion cl…
The end of year again! Time for some semi-public reflection. First of all I've been neglecting my own blog, which for the record has been in this form since 2005 (and funnily enough started also with an end of year review). Which is kind of…
Beginning this year (2018) me, Bram and Emiel decided to build a cool side project. Bram was then struggling with collecting addresses from friends to sent out an upcoming birth announcement, so he came up with the idea that we named Mailbo…
Below the latest articled I published in several publications: I've recently posted two articles on Medium: I'll maintain this blog and continue with updates, but Medium has evolved to a very useful tool for publishing. I always liked the i…