Me, version 2.0. Released!

Please welcome my son: Elijah Rhys van Hylckama Vlieg!

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PreDevCamp SF Bay Area at Palm HQ - a videoblog

My first ever videoblog. I attended PreDevCamp San Francisco which was held at the Palm offices in Sunnyvale. It was a great day and I used it as an opportunity to do my first videoblog. Therefore there's no need to write more about the day here. Just watch the video! …

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Me, version 2.0, almost done

I'm not much of a life blogger but I had to post this. This is some amazing technology. A 3D sonogram of my baby son, still inside the womb. 6 weeks (or so) to go.
Now you also know why it's somewhat quiet on this site at the moment!

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Why I choose the Palm Pre to be my next mobile phone

After having been in the USA for well over 7 months I finally got a cellphone. For a few months I've been thinking hard on whether I wanted the iPhone or the brand new Palm Pre. After I made my decision to go for the Pre I figured let's write a blog on why I made that …

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What's up with the blogosphere lately? Tired of list-posts!

Just a small rant here really to get something off my chest I've been wondering about lately. The issue I'm trying to address seems to be especially true for design related blogs but I see it everywhere really: top 10 posts and list-posts. With list-posts I mean posts …

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Create your own Twitter image badge with PHP

Here's a little PHP code snippet that allows you to create your very own Twitter image badge with your latest tweet. You may have seen this functionality on twitstamp.com. This service however doesn't (yet) feature custom badges with your own image, font and colors and …

Five reasons why I hate Facebook (with a passion)

During some online discussion with Ben about the pros and cons of the new MySpace customization Facebook inevitably entered the discussion. It reminded me of how much I dislike Facebook and I figured why not write a small blog about it. Facebook fans: Bring on the …

5 things MySpace could do to improve Profile 2.0

Like I wrote in my previous post I've recently built two MySpace profiles, one for bookalicio.us and one for myself. These profiles were built with the new Profile 2.0 features that MySpace rolled out late 2008. While I was overall quite happy with what's possible in …

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MySpace looking mighty fine with Profile 2.0 - How I built a MySpace profile that doesn't suck

In the past few evenings I've been building ... [cough] a MySpace profile. The profile is intended to be a social media promo companion to Pam's bookalicio.us which we're currently pimping like there's no tomorrow. This whole pimping endeavor is an interesting adventure …

10 awesome Tumblr themes

Yep, yep I know. This has been done before. How unoriginal of me! Yet I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm gonna post 10 Tumblr themes that I think deserve some special attention. Because I'm a Tumblr theme creator myself and because I love to see great work by other designers. …

A post to make sure my blog gets banned in China

Yesterday I went to see my friend Tom in San Francisco. Pam, Addie, Tom, his wife Rosemarie and me decided to explore the Chinatown area in San Francisco. We had a great time. I even took some nice pictures. But... the pictures and the fact that we had a good time …

From lists of A-Bloggers to lists of A-Tweeters

Small lunch time rant ahead:
Just when I thought the whole era of inter-designer/developer ass kissing was kind of over I ran into 40 web developers to follow on Twitter and 44 web designers to follow on Twitter. It reminded me of the whole 'A bloggers' thing from …

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Version 2.0

Still in very early stages of development
Model type (M or F) : TBA
Many improvements over previous model
ETA : October 2009

:D

The death of web development and design, and what to do next.

Web development is on the move. Ace at CSS, semantic markup, Javascript or server side languages? Great. But it doesn't look like it's gonna help you all that much anymore in the long run. I'm not talking next year, mind you, but I'm pretty sure that in five years from …

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Helvetica, my second Tumblr theme

After releasing my first Tumblr Theme iBlack and seeing it becoming a 'rising star' I decided I wanted to do another one. This time I decided to go minimalist and do a theme with almost no graphics. This theme is mostly typography and shapes and I'm pretty excited about …

Designing and building a Tumblr theme

Last weekend I decided to start using Tumblr for my smaller posts, rather than having them as a part of this website. I have several reasons for this:

Low barrier posting

Posting to my tumblelog has a very low barrier. It's super easy to quickly post a few lines about …

The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean

Yes, I posted about this earlier.

osx86 - Welcome to Hackintosh!

Before you continue: this is NOT a full osx86 installation guide.

It's Steve Jobs' nemesis and nightmare. It's not for the faint of heart. But... it's there. OSX86 or often referred to as 'Hackintosh'. It's the art of installing Mac OS X on hardware Steve Jobs doesn't …

Unleash your inner child with Pleo

About a year ago I wrote about Pleo, the robotic baby dinosaur created by Ugobe. For a long time I felt the price tag was a little too steep but... a few weeks ago I gave in. I had to have one and hopefully hack it in the near future. Since I wrote about it before when …

Country #4 : United States of America

It's been fairly slow on this site for a while and I haven't really been able to respond to everything I should be responding to. Let me tell you something about the reason for that!

I guess I just can't stop moving countries. Besides my homecountry the Netherlands …