Posts Categorized: The Internet

30 Day Song Challenge #1

Day 1: A song you like with a color in the title. Empyrium — The Blue Mists of Night Way back in 1997, I sought out an album from a band I hadn’t heard of, in a style I didn’t know, purely based on a review I read in the Dutch metal magazine Aardschok. After… Read more »

30 Day Song Challenge

The 30 Day Song Challenge has been around for years (at least since 2011), but I only encountered it last summer. The concept is right up my alley: for 30 days straight, post a song. In my head, there immediately was the addendum “and tell something about it.” We’ll see how that pans out. I… Read more »

Pragmatically Splitting ASP.NET StyleBundles for IE

Lets start with a disclaimer: I am a front-end guy. I *heart-emoji* HTML and CSS. I know my way around javascript. But I am not a programmer. My knowledge of ASP.NET/C# is minimal. So the following will probably be bloody obvious for people who are C#-gurus, but here we go anyway. Another disclaimer: this is… Read more »

Quote of the Day: Google Reader

So Google is pulling the plug on Reader. Bummer. Now I’ll have to go looking for a replacement. Whatever that will be, it won’t be an app. In the words of Web-Viking Christian Heilmann: how the hell is an app that I need to download and install on all my devices a replacement for a… Read more »

Take Cover

Today I noticed that the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport launched a campaign to inform the public that a) you’re required to have a medical insurance, and b) that they’re going to get you if you don’t. That’s all fine and dandy. There’s only one slight problem: the campaign uses comic fucking sans…. Read more »