Peter Kassenaar

On ending our OpenAI contracts Using AI as a developer undeniably offers significant benefits: increased productivity, stronger analytical support and faster access to knowledge. I (and my team at work) experience these advantages ...

300 word article on why we are ending our OpenAI (ChatGPT) subscriptions as per today.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ending...

While I am not against AI by all means, tools and sites now often take it to far. This is an example. Please, let me select my own commits! I will handle them appropriately. It is one of the key techniques every developer must master. AI or no AI. Thank you.

Puzzle Veteran - Chess.com You correctly solved 1000 Puzzles!

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Friend of mine has a project for work, now travelling from NL --> Fiji. Takes 36+ hours. The world might be small, but is still bigger than you think.

The drone shots and noise pollution from the Olympics are absolutely f**ing terrible and I hate them with a passion. Hope to see them go rather sooner than later

You getting divorced? Sorry to hear that. Too bad it didn't work out.

Came across that recently by accident. Head exploded indeed.

Our dog, Rico, has his #birthday today. Today, he is 13 yo. Hang in there, buddy.

Ga zo door, Shawn!

Challenge. Spot the No Fly Zone:

Worth it. Plays best with 2-3, IMO.

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In Kröller-Müller museum, NL. Rest of the collection is OK I guess, but actually there for one of the most vibrant, colorful and simply most beautiful paintings Vincent van Gogh ever created.

Everdell boardgame

On vacation: playing #Everdell. One if the finest in our collection, IMO. #boardgames

Hope you'll be home fast & safe. Best of luck.

Ik moet zeggen, De Speld (@speld) overtreft zichzelf tijdens dit winterweer.

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years | PC Gamer "What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

Dell is the first brand to ditch the "AI first" mantra. It's like a breath of fresh air.

www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

haha! (via marc ouwendijk)

Het #vuurwerkverbod in #Zutphen is ook dit jaar weer een wassen neus. Hopelijk is het volgend jaar anders, maar ik heb er een hard hoofd in.

Registreren bij autodeelbedrijf #MyWheels lukt niet, omdat postcode niet wordt herkend ("Dit is geen geldig Nederlands adres"). Maar ik woon hier toch echt! Dan maar naar alternatief/concurrent #GreenWheels.

Tonight: playing Rolling Heights. Fun game, but too long to my liking and a bit too much luck involved. #boardgames

Ach, wat is #Magister toch een onschuldig bedrijf en wat wordt het een onrecht aangedaan door al die nare scholen en ouders!.

Ondertussen hanteren ze dezelfde taktiek als wapenfabrikanten: "onze wapens doden geen mensen, maar de mensen die ze gebruiken!"

Waiting for the ICE, which is delayed. Again.

So I sent out a drone to inspect the tracks, and this is what it discovered:

All those automated Christmas greetings from companies you did business with over the past years were already awful, of course. And now they're generated with AI too. How pathetic.

I know we shouldn't use <table> for tables on the screen, but I'm not sure if this 2025 solution nowadays is actually so much cleaner?

FIFA gives Trump a peace prize in a departure from its traditional focus on sport FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump. It’s an unusual break from tradition for the sport-focused soccer organization, whose president has become a close ally of Trump.

So I guess now we’re all just waiting for the Nobel Committee to announce their Footballer of the Year award. apnews.com/article/trum...

Opinion on AI found on LinkedIn: "We're at the brink of an explosion of the most useless bubble of all time. After the the Railway Bubble, at least people still have railways. Here, we have only useless data centers with outdated hardware."

Somehow, I feel this has some truth in it.

20 years ago (yes, in 2005), the last Windows 3.1 computer was located: www.ticalc.org/archives/new...

This is a message from MS Word (Mac). Me, being the half dyslectic idiot, originally read the sentence as "Checking for changes to your life" and was wondering what Word was supposed to do with my life...

Black Friday in Nederland: "Scoor nu blek fraaidee diels! In de epp!"

Manmanman.