Archive for the “Thoughts” category

Frontpage still haunts my mind and why that blocks me.

by Dries De Roeck on April 15, 2021

The idea for this post has been circling around in my head for many years. In fact, I saved the title of this post as draft in 2014 already. Many years later, I keep coming back to the way I (…)

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Hi 21 bye 20

by Dries De Roeck on April 8, 2021

Whoops, almost half into the year again. But, since I always like writing these posts and reading them again after some time I wanted to do one for 2020 before I forgot all about it. This is something I started (…)

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Bye 19, hi 20.

by Dries De Roeck on May 30, 2020

Birds flying high you know how I feelSun in the sky you know how I feelBreeze driftin’ on by you know how I feelIt’s a new dawnIt’s a new dayIt’s a new life for me Feeling Good (Anthony Newley and (…)

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Makers gonna make! #teamscheire

by Dries De Roeck on November 19, 2018

This post was written as a draft, to eject some thoughts. It is prone to have plenty of language errors, unclear sentences or very ‘dutch’ type of english sentences. Recently the public broadcaster in Belgium launched a new show, #teamscheire. (…)

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#IOTMARK London

by Dries De Roeck on July 17, 2018

For some reason I forgot to actually copy this post from my writing notes to the blog. Woops, but still relevant I think. I’m writing this on the train back home after a day of chatting, reflecting and working on (…)

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About doing research in a design context…

by Dries De Roeck on July 17, 2018

Disclaimer: I never thought I would write the post you’re about to read. I still don’t feel confident to engage in this debate or discussion. Nevertheless it has been on my mind for way too long, so I might as (…)

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The one pixel display

by Dries De Roeck on July 14, 2018

This post is about one of those ideas that my mind keeps coming back to from time to time. Never took the time to try to make this real, but needed to jot it down – perhaps just for my (…)

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Elon the day after.

by Dries De Roeck on February 7, 2018

Yesterday SpaceX launched their coveted falcon heavy rocket. I watched the show in my local hackerspace, totally nerding out with other nerds. It was fun, it was unbelievable – everyone was going crazy for science. The sight of the two (…)

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Bye 17, hi 18.

by Dries De Roeck on January 17, 2018

Another year, another time to look back and forward to what was and what is to come. I mentioned last year that I would be revising the format of this post I’ve been using for several years. This will be (…)

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ThingsconAMS Thoughts

by Dries De Roeck on December 2, 2017

When Alex called out at the end of ThingsconAMS that we lost the habbit of blogging and expressing our thoughts in more than 240 480 characters I had two options, nodding and agreeing or spending some time on my trainride (…)

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