Blog
Willem Prins
On technology, history and (country) life.
Blog articles published since December 2024.
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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”.
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Facebook post data as a personal musical time machine – Part 2 (2013-2019)
Second installment of my journey through my past musical tastes, using Facebook activity archive as a source, and leveraging AI to help me solve an unexpected sorting problem.
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Facebook post data as a personal musical time machine – Part 1 (2009-2012)
I am creating a Spotify playlist from music I shared in posts on Facebook. Time travelling down a musical memory lane with a few black holes caused by dead links.
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Today I learned how a blog can become a social media profile…
In this post, I’ll try to explain how installing ActivityPub for this blog helped me understand how a WordPress site can become a part of the Fediverse.
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How (and why) I built this site
A short explanation for launching a new website after neglecting somtijds.nl for almost 8 years, and a brief look into the tools used to build this website.
If you are interested in other examples of my writing still available online, see Other writing.