Posts about side project

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When AI Fails

A project dedicated to documenting the funny, interesting, and sometimes outright stupid ways in which AI can fail.

United Nations Speeches

A side-project that analyzes diplomatic relationships through speeches during the 2024 UN General Assembly.

Ons Land

An interactive data visualization project exploring how land is used across the Netherlands, highlighting the distribution of agriculture, nature reserves, urban areas, and infrastructure throughout the country.

Particle Life

A recreation of Jeffery Ventrella's "Particle Life" algorithm. This implementation captures the essence of the original while adding some personal touches.

Aarde

Old school artificial life inspired by Tierra, in a much simplified form.

Time Flies

A visualization of insects, time and how it always seems to fly by too fast. Original idea by Menno Anker.

Dancing Mosquitoes

A visualization of mosquitoes dancing, inspired by hot summer evenings. Created on a dreary winter day.

Rock Paper Scissors

A mesmerizing interactive visualization that simulates cellular growth and competition, following the classic rules of rock, paper, and scissors. Each cell type dominates another while being vulnerable to the third, creating complex patterns of territorial expansion and contraction across the canvas.

Purple Rain

A simple visualization of raindrops falling down the screen with a purple palette.

Voronoi Virus

A captivating visualization inspired by old-school computer demos from the floppy disk era. This generative art experiment uses Voronoi diagrams to create an organic, virus-like pattern that evolves across your screen.

Prognosis 2100

Imagining the Netherlands in 2100, this page provides an overview of the impacts of climate change. It's a personal project, driven by my desire to show what the year 2100 could look like when my kids are in their 80s.

Pong Wars

The eternal battle between day and night, good and evil, visualized as a colorful Pong game. Watch as the balls bounce around the screen, coloring pixels and creating a mesmerizing generative art piece.

mijn-Lessen.nl

A web app built during the Covid-19 lockdown that helps parents and elementary school children create lessons collaboratively. Parents can support their kids with challenging topics and share interactive educational content with other families. (in Dutch)

Vaccination progress

A Twitter bot that tweets the latest vaccination progress for the Netherlands. Recently updated to also show the number of people that received a booster shot.

Tafels.app

A new year, a new JavaScript framework! Using svelte I created this PWA to help my kids with math. The goal was to create an app-like experience, using micro animations, full offline support, prefetching JavaScript and server-side rendering.

Lumber Jack

Weekend project to learn more about Mobx State Tree. Simple kids' game inspired by Stardew Valley and Monty Python. Don't forget to turn on the sound!

Finding Nora

I made this app to test what you can accomplish with current PWA technology (especially on iOS). My kids loved it, I hope you do too! 🎉

Peter and the Wolf

Progressive Web App for kids, based upon the classical piece "Peter and the Wolf" by Prokofiev. Turns out that making large mp3s available offline is harder than I thought.

Size of NPM

I thought it might be (mildly) interesting to keep track of how the NPM node_modules folder grows over time. This website keeps track of the size of the top 100 npm packages. It's been running for a while now and the results are... frightening?

Star Trek

Star Wars or Star Trek? Why not both? Using just CSS and a little bit of JavaScript I recreated these classic science fiction intros.

Star Wars

Star Wars or Star Trek? Why not both? Using just CSS and a little bit of JavaScript I recreated these classic science fiction intros.

Words to line prices

A simple web app for translators that converts a price per word to a price per standard line (55 characters).

Help Terence!

A Twitter bot raising emoji money for his trip around the world. A fun little experiment with social media and Twitter bots. [no longer active]. Technologies used: Express, MongoDB.

Rush hour timelapse

A Twitter bot that creates daily timelapse videos of the traffic jams in the Netherlands. No longer active, but you can still see some of the old time-lapses.

Wikipedia edits door de Nederlandse overheid

Twitter bot inspired by @congressedits that monitors and Tweets any edits made to Wikipedia by the Dutch government. It's been in the news quite a few times (de Volkskrant) and the account has more followers than I do. (in Dutch)

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