The Curious Engineer

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Koen van Gilst

koenvangilst.nl

Principal Engineer at Rabobank with a background in philosophy and lifelong passion for programming. I focus on AI, team building, and bridging business with technology to deliver real value.

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162 from 12 Jan 2006 to 30 Oct 2026
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2026 29

  1. Waiting for Anthropic Support
  2. Two Uncomfortably Exciting Conference Talks
  3. GPT-6 Astra and The Scream
  4. GenAI in the wild
  5. Code Doesn’t Speak for Itself
  6. The highs and lows of the Rhine
  7. Photo: Excenevex, France
  8. Photo: Chamonix, France
  9. Photo: Chamonix, France
  10. Photo: Chamonix, France
  11. Photo: Chamonix, France
  12. Photo: Chamonix, France
  13. Photo: Chamonix, France
  14. Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the World's Most Dangerous AI
  15. Notes from the AI Now Summit by Mistral
  16. Photo: Munich, Germany
  17. Photo: Munich, Germany
  18. Photo: Munich, Germany
  19. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  20. Growing a Better World... Together with AI
  21. Generating vs. Searching
  22. Software for One
  23. A Game of Life and Ghosts
  24. Computer Says No
  25. Gemini Paints Sunflowers in SVG
  26. Omarchy-Inspired Setup for macOS
  27. Coding is Dead
  28. Photo: Bilthoven, Netherlands
  29. Photo: Bilthoven, Netherlands

2025 32

  1. Building Tetris Time with Claude Code
  2. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  3. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  4. A Brief History of Large Language Models
  5. Adding llms.txt (and a honeypot) to my website
  6. European Land Use Visualization
  7. Photo: Segesta, Italy
  8. Can LLMs Recreate Van Gogh's Starry Night Using Only SVG?
  9. Notes from GOTO Copenhagen: Context Is King
  10. Photo: Oslo, Norway
  11. Photo: Oslo, Norway
  12. Photo: Sweden
  13. Photo: Sweden
  14. A New Metaphor for AI
  15. Photo: Paris, France
  16. Photo: Paris, France
  17. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  18. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  19. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  20. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  21. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  22. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  23. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  24. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  25. Photo: Saint Pierre en Port, France
  26. Photo: Henschotermeer, Netherlands
  27. Photo: Henschotermeer, Netherlands
  28. Photo: Utrecht, Netherlands
  29. Photo: Utrecht, Netherlands
  30. When AI Fails
  31. Photo: Zeist, Netherlands
  32. United Nations Speeches

2024 20

  1. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  2. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  3. Photo: Domburg, Netherlands
  4. Photo: Domburg, Netherlands
  5. Photo: Siciliy, Italy
  6. Photo: Sicily, Italy
  7. Photo: Sicily, Italy
  8. Photo: Sicily, Italy
  9. Photo: Bilthoven, Netherland
  10. Generative Art Gallery
  11. Photo: Bilthoven, Netherlands
  12. Photo: Bilthoven, Netherlands
  13. Joost van den Vondel's correspondence
  14. Ons Land
  15. Is creativity nothing more than a little randomness?
  16. Analyzing GPT-4 Tokens
  17. AI and the Complexity of Code
  18. Prognosis 2100
  19. Displaying Aranet4 CO2 readings on my website
  20. Elder Race, book review

2023 10

  1. Rising Temperatures in The Netherlands
  2. Why I Prefer Trunk-Based Development
  3. Git Standup Alias
  4. Photo: Zeeland, Netherlands
  5. Photo: Zeeland, Netherlands
  6. Photo: Vosges, France
  7. Accessible router links in Angular
  8. Progressively enhanced dark mode
  9. AI Enhanced Education
  10. Why a plant-based diet is a good idea

2022 13

  1. Guest post by ChatGPT
  2. Reading Notes Regenesis
  3. Plotting the age of parliament with Livebook
  4. Use trash instead of rm
  5. Decoding a JWT token
  6. My gitconfig
  7. Phoenix LiveView Cursors
  8. Git hash in Next.js
  9. Support Ukraine banner
  10. On returning to the office
  11. Cleaning up local branches
  12. Live user cursors with Phoenix Presence
  13. Clean code is a phase

2021 12

  1. Adding Tailwind CSS to a Phoenix project
  2. React components should read like a book
  3. accent-color
  4. Custom scrollbars
  5. One command to run it all
  6. useStorage
  7. Of Bundles and Barrels
  8. Code Colocation is King
  9. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  10. Photo: Altenstein, Germany
  11. mijn-Lessen.nl
  12. Vaccination progress

2020 2

  1. Using Svelte to create a scroll video effect
  2. Tafels.app

2019 10

  1. Programming quotes
  2. mobx-state-tree
  3. 303 See Other
  4. Accessible SVGs in React
  5. Brutalist CSS
  6. Forgit me nots
  7. Reading notes Programming TypeScript
  8. Using React Hooks with canvas
  9. Reading notes Accelerate
  10. Lumber Jack

2018 4

  1. Reading notes CSS In Depth
  2. Finding Nora
  3. Peter and the Wolf
  4. Size of NPM

2017 3

  1. API testing with Jest
  2. Star Trek
  3. Star Wars

2016 4

  1. Generating PDF's with Express
  2. Words to line prices
  3. Help Terence!
  4. Rush hour timelapse

2014 1

  1. Wikipedia edits door de Nederlandse overheid

2012 3

  1. Photo: Huacachina, Peru
  2. Photo: Huacachina, Peru
  3. Photo: Les Deux Alpes, France

2011 1

  1. Photo: California, USA

2010 13

  1. Photo: Everdingen, Netherlands
  2. Photo: Cologne, Germany
  3. Photo: Unterhaching, Germany
  4. Photo: New York, USA
  5. Photo: New York, USA
  6. Photo: New York, USA
  7. Photo: New York, USA
  8. Photo: New York, USA
  9. Photo: New York, USA
  10. Photo: New York, USA
  11. Photo: New York, USA
  12. Photo: New York, USA
  13. Photo: New York, USA

2009 4

  1. Photo: Munich, Germany
  2. Photo: Munich, Germany
  3. Photo: Munich, Germany
  4. Photo: Unterhaching, Germany

2006 1

  1. Photo: Everdingen, Netherlands