Daniëlle Suurlant

Switched to Opera as a web browser because it's 2025 and neither Chrome nor Firefox have split-screen tabs

What's the most annoying that you can't even get ChatGPT to stop doing it. Like I genuinely try to use it for stuff and I can't just get a normal reply.

It's not just frustrating. It's infuriating.

The Ethical Consumption In My Online Life I recently found out about Project Nimbus, and I wish I’d known sooner, but now that I do I’m taking steps to decrease my entanglement wi...

I just posted a new blog post!

write.as/dsuurlant/th...

Right? Why do we want to do all the devops first?? 😅

Putting your inner software architect on mute Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You just came up with an awesome new app idea. It’s tied to a problem you ran into in your dail...

I just posted a new blog about how to bring new ideas to life (and how not to):

write.as/dsuurlant/pu...

so one of my neighbors, idk who, has recently gotten a new wifi router that's been completely ruining mine with channel interference. 🤬

Hopefully my manual settings work, but it's seriously ticking me off that this ISP thought "let's grab max signal max width and ruin everything for your neighbors"

Help AlisQI Quality on Wheels Fight Kids' Cancer! AlisQI Quality on Wheels is riding in the Great Cycle Challenge this September to fight kids' cancer! Please sponsor the team and show your support to help these kids beat this terrible disease. CLICK...

Every year my company joins the Great Cycle Challenge and it's a great way to raise money and exercise at the same time. 🤗

I've cycled 4.5 miles (7.2km) today!

I'll donate $10 per mile myself. Will you match my donation? 💗

#GreatCycleChallenge

greatcyclechallenge.com/teams/AlisQI...

Thank you! Yes, I definitely have to be careful of how much I use it now.

The Paraperson Effect: Why We Bond With AI If you've paid attention to the news around ChatGPT lately, you know that OpenAI rolled out their GPT-5 model much to the dissatisfacti...

I wrote about my experience with AI the past few months, and how GPT-5 brought it full-circle.

The blog post I've been trying to write for months; here it is, finally.

blog.dsuurlant.dev/the-parapers...

In that case, it's the ghostwriters who do the writing.

I can see the benefit of some use of AI for brainstorming or text analysis, but the actual writing of your creative work... well, it's not creative if you're not the one creating.

call me crazy but i think "great writers" do the actual writing themselves

Thank you 💜

It's been a tough few months Well let me start this blog entry by saying that I'm not even writing this. I'm dictating it using Voice control on the Mac which is most...

New blog post is up!

blog.dsuurlant.dev/its-been-a-t...

Have professional software developers in their twenties and thirties all heard of Extreme Programming (first published in 1999)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...

I really liked the word "vibe" whilst it lasted, but alas, "vibe coding" may be the cringiest name for a new technology I've heard since the Metaverse

If I've been quiet here it's because I'm dealing with double de Quervain's tenosynovitis.

It sucks, and I've barely or not been able to do any of my hobbies, or work.

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

'What a week, huh?' meme for the current day as of this posting

Live versions of the "'What a week, huh?' meme.

- 'What a day': tintin.dlazaro.ca/day

- 'What a week': tintin.dlazaro.ca/week

- 'What a month': tintin.dlazaro.ca/month

- 'What a year': tintin.dlazaro.ca/year

#memes

Idk how to explain at this point, but seeing generated images take over every of our visual cultures makes me immensely sad. I don't think people have an idea of how much of a disaster it is. People have normalized it so easily, too.

For a guy who's obsessed with going to Mars, Elon Musk sure is canceling a lot of STEM funding. How does he think we'll land on Mars if not through science, engineering, and medical advancements? Duct tape and memecoins?

a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags Alt: a man in a black uniform says so say we all in front of flags

I keep thinking about that Battlestar Galactica quote.

All of this has happened before, all of this will happen again.

The idea that story-driven games aren’t replayable is so strange to me. I eventually bounce off every multiplayer game because I get bored, but I go back to story games again and again just like rewatching a favorite movie, or to experience something new

I hope that the CO who said he admired Elon Musk back in 2018 is feeling pretty embarrassed right about now

(I said I admired Sony, which was made fun of)

*Trump stelt voor om Gaza etnisch te zuiveren en het land in te pikken

It may be a good strategy to step outside my usual circles, as these topics apply to a lot of fields, and are not related to PHP...

I'll try to speak at meetups, refine my talks, and possibly come up with new ones.

The thing is... I don't know if I'm super interested in tech talks that show a lot of code and such.

I really want to talk about core skills more. Culture, mental health, diversity, neurodivergence...

Sent in 4 CFPs for conferences this year, and all of them got rejected. I think that's just part of the process though. There's only so many spots open and I don't have any reputation built up.

But even if I did, I believe rejection is just a part of speakership! No reason to be discouraged.

Get well soon!

Finally, using a tragedy to promote one's anti-DEI agenda is a new low, but hardly unexpected.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims, and as a figure skating fan, this is especially heartbreaking to me. 💔

Of course, that's the whole point of the anti-DEI movement. It means that mediocre people are no longer afforded the privilege they were accustomed to, and it levels the playing field.

Those in positions of power will typically experience movement towards equality as an attack.