On June 12th I attended the yearly Drupaljam conference for the fifth time. My first attend was in 2017. This time it was a special one to remember as I had the honour to meet Dries in person and have some pleasant talks about Nostr.

The Drush sql:sync and sql:cli commands stopped working and here is why (it applies to the latest MariaDB server versions).

At DrupalCon Portland 2024 Dries announced a big and ambitious initiative for Drupal: Starshot. The goal is to build a new default experience for less technical people to build websites with Drupal. This version will extend all core features provided by Drupal combined with all the best community-contributed modules out there.

From May 23 till May 25 I was in the Bitcoin capital of The Netherlands: Arnhem. There was a full program around the conference day on Saturday. I and many other bitcoiners gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of #bitcoincity Arnhem.

In de Satoshi Radio podcast aflevering 311 legt Bert Slagter met een paar woorden uit waarom privacy binair is. Hoe denk ik daar over?

What if the government is watching you 24/7? For China citizens fighting for human freedom rights this is the reality. This documentary shows how mass surveillance could look like anywhere in any future for discerning citizens. In my opinion this this already exists in our Western democracy in the form of BigTech co-working with many governments.

As a fullstack Drupal developer I’m already working more than two years on an ambitious project for Health-Thing. The project offers a platform where knowlegde is shared between young healthcare professionals about their wellbeing. With this platform the goal is to retain them in this healthcare space as there is a massive fallout in this sector.

My goal was to find an easy to install, use and configure Nostr relay implementation with custom policies. For example I would like to set a policy where I configure specific event kinds to be transmitted by the relay.

I'm using Proton as my default email service provider since 2022. I’ve more than 500GB storage available. This is quite a lot for just email. So I asked myself, how can I use the remaining amount of storage as an extra backup storage solution with their service Proton Drive?

Apple is going all-in with a fight against the EU by disabling all WebApp and PWA (progressive web app) features only in EU countries.

This seems like a obvious no-brainer, but the current social media platforms do no feed our best interests based on commons. It's your attention that's being harvested for their own interests. Let me outline why enjoyable social networking should work based on commons.

For me this is quite a challenging topic to point out in this blog. In this blog I'm writing some stuff out loud.

In this blog I will explain how I'm using two Drupal contrib modules to integrate some Nostr features. 1) Setup an internet identifier for a Nostr account and 2) publish a text note when you save a piece of content in the CMS.

Nadat in april 2023 glasvezel was aangelegd in de meterkast (Sprundel, gemeente Rucphen), kwam er pas na 8 maanden (!!!) licht binnen en dus een werkende internetverbinding. Deze verbinding (1gbit/s) is welliswaar tien keer zo snel ten opzichte van ons vorige abonnement, maar op dit moment ervaar loop ik vast op een beperking van de door Odido geleverde Zyxel modem. Het openzetten / doorschakelen van poorten (portforwaring) werkt niet.

Short explanation how to call a function in a child component from the parent component in Vue3.

This week I ran into this error on my Drupal sandbox project.

Voor online video afspraken gebruik ik Jitsi Meet. Sinds enkele maanden heb ik deze tool nu zelf geïnstalleerd en gekoppeld aan mijn eigen domeinnaam meet.sebastix.social. In mijn laatste blog leg ik kort uit waarom en hoe ik dat gedaan heb.

Tijdens de grote Twitter migration eind 2022 was ik zowel in de fediverse (met Mastodon) als met Nostr actief in de weer. Afgelopen zomer was ik er echter niet zoveel meer te vinden. Toch is er op Nostr nog een mooie groep power users aanwezig die enthousiast bouwen aan nieuwe applicaties, specificaties van het protocol verfijnen en allerlei andere technische proof-of-concept realiseren.

After the Nostr hype begin this year I was not very active on the network this summer like many others (the same applies to Mastodon). Still, a nice group of power users is still very active and developers are still building clients and improving NIPs. This holds my believe in Nostr strong.

Dit zijn de beste vijf podcasts die ik in het 3e kwartaal 2023 heb beluisterd.