Stephan Meijer

Are any of my mutuals on /dev/null? Let's connect there too. dev-null.sh/@smeijer

I should be applying to jobs, or searching for freelance gigs. Instead, here I am, (almost) binge watching "The Man in the High Castle".

Wtf is wrong with bol.com? For some weird reason, it switched sides. One of the largest, national (Dutch), online resellers, using freedom units?! Not just this one item. I've been seeing it more and more lately.

Where have all the recruiters gone to? They used to spam me on a daily basis, but now that I'm actively searching, it's complete radio silence? 🫤 Not a single soul in my LinkedIn inbox.

Are you old enough to remember these?

Am I doing this right?

Today, five years of collaboration have come to an end. There's something strangely anticlimactic about the final goodbye being a Zoom call followed by closing your laptop. No walking out the door for the last time. No last coffee, or a hand shake. Just… offline.

I wish we could give Chat read-only access to our email. I need it to be able to read email, maybe even draft responses, but NOT send it, or change any of my settings.

Last post is from Nov 12, 2025. But today, i've wired Obsidian to my blog. So I can publish from my phone now. Still no clue what I should be writing about though 😂

Current state of mind; I need 2M EUR, so I never need to work again.

Interesting map I came across the other day, showing in realtime where a country is getting their energy from, and how pollutant they are. app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fif...

We can't even afford to game, after the LLM's take over our jobs. 😭 (XBox price development)

What's the best Obsidian LLM plugin?

I'm so uninspired at the moment. I want to build, but have no idea what. My mind is blank.

My oven has a delayed start function. Together with the temp probe, I can set it so dinner is done at a requested time. Which makes me wonder... Why can't my oven cool as well? Then I could prep in the morning, or even the night before.

Sooooo, how's life over here? Are we all enjoying the summer?

How's the job market? I'm looking for a new thing starting in June.

OMG. I just asked an LLM to commit my changes with message "{msg}" 🤦‍♂️.

Looking for a key holder, found a shelve that magically cleans my kitchen. ✨

"if you are on a trial Pro plan, you agree that we may use and share your content with third parties for developing and improving their products" Let that sink in. Your source code isn't yours, it's licensed to Vercel and all third parties they seem fit.

Can't even track my package in NL without being confronted with US bullshit.

When you write a reply, and don't know how to spell the person's name, just fucking copy/paste it. SO FUCKING ANNOYING, when companies keep writing my name with an F (stefan), even after several back and forth. At that point, I'm convinced they're doing it on purpose, to show disrespect.

Trump begging NATO for help with Iran 🤦‍♂️. Fuck off.

Is there a tool that shows npm downloads, per week, per version? Is that something you could offer @npmx.dev?

Coffee really is my fucking drugs. Drank coffee two mornings in a row in Barcelona last week, and now I'm feeling tired and hooked again.

What's the most meaningful thing you've recently shipped?

Please note that Chrome pushed an update, and YOUR DEV CONSOLE (history) MAY BE READ BY HUMAN REVIEWERS. Sure, console should never be treated as a secure env, but I still fucking hate this.

Hey @github.com , can you please push my hotfix out manually? It's kinda time sensitive.

github status is getting fucking rediculus.

And yet again, it's the US pulling us in a war we didn't ask for.

Thanks OpenAI. Because you're buying all the fucking hardware humans can produce, my Hetzner bill increases by 30%. Seriously, this fucking AI bubble can't pop soon enough.

hey @jetbrains.com , i love those gutter icons, but this is a bit much?

The bigger part of the web should just be served as plain markdown, which the consumer can style to their preference.

"Don't want to give AI agents #### access?" The scary thing is, I don't know what they have access to. I'm pretty sure they can access everything, and all that stops them from running `rm -rf ~`, is trust that it "understands" it shouldn't be doing that.

Selling furniture sucks. Put a leather couch on market place, 4 year old, new price 4500 euro, first offer: 5 euro 🤦‍♂️ Got insane offers to teak wooden furniture too. For that amount, I'll get more fun out of burning it all.

The scary part about this, is that if they're dead, you'll loose all your design assets.