Hi! I’m Willem.
I build online things
and sometimes I write.
Willem Prins
On technology, history and (country) life.
Latest blog articles
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How to prepare your Replit project for local development with DDEV, part I
Today, I learned how I can take a project from Replit and work on it locally. In the first part of this story, I explain why uncoupling your project from Replit (or any other platform) is a helpful step to ensure continued development across environments and platforms.
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Five weeks into a Product Management Bootcamp – here are five things I’ve learned
I am currently doing a three-month deep dive into product development. In this article, I describe five takeaways from the first five weeks of being a participant of Product Management Bootcamp at the Digitale Leute School.
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Who’s starting a podcast? Not me – I think
I am planning a series of conversations about working life called “Friends with jobs”.
About
I am Willem Prins, a Dutch digital product management professional and cultural historian living in Brandenburg, Germany. You can find me online as Somtijds.
Somtijds is the name I adopted in 2010 when I started out as a freelancer in the field of cultural heritage. Somtijds in Dutch simply means “sometimes”. For me, it means that everything we experience now is “the sum of (all) time”.