Hans Gerwitz

@gerwitz.com

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Trying to bring humans and technology together since last century. Often the "someone" mentioned in xkcd 386. he/him (Fully exnominated, I don't need you to care about my pronouns. But I do care about getting yours right.) https://hans.gerwitz.com

An electric/pedal micro-truck for Amazon Prime neighborhood delivery being stocked from a postal center a block’s walk away.
An article from Google Workspace help describing how to filter their own calendar spam from their own email client with a set of finicky, potentially brittle steps that will intimidate many users
Nederlandse paspoort
Two headlines from history “news” sources: “Who was the best monarch in world history? 9 experts have their say” and “1848: The year of revolutions: How Europe was reshaped in one calendar year”
A sign above a button in Seattle that says "Push button for warning lights. Wait for gap in traffic."
A chart displaying "Christian values" and the score of AI models against them. It includes Character, Relationships, Happiness, Meaning, Health, Finances, and Faith. Every model scores very low in Faith.
It looks like Alatilatus hebechela, but is made of paper fibers.
Elevation of building facade from 1935. The ornamental stonework was salvaged from an 18th century building by Eelke van Houten, who said this reuse was "met het oude stadskarakter in overeenstemming"
The list of countries I've visited in the last 10 years, excluding India, required to renew a visa. There are 19, which excludes 2 I've visited but not recently.
MacBook with a shiny new Finicky sticker
A map of Amsterdam Pride street parties, placing them in arbitrary, incorrect locations with labels that in no way reflect the positioning.
Modi “won’t tolerate nuclear blackmail”
Fog hoping for belly pets
cat.
Unless you are authorised, do not enter
Screenshot of https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html describing how their biological computer "runs in a simulated world"
Poll from RedBook asking “Do you think USA will ever have worker led revolution?”
A screenshot of a lengthy conversation with GitHub Copilot (o1 Preview), starting with "Please write a prompt I can use to ask you to write a prompt, just like this one." and ending with an error from the "Responsible AI Service".
A chart from my Apple Health logs showing that my last week’s active energy expenditure is 1131 kcal, when previously it was 749 kcal
cat in bed
Meme showing photo of the Hindenburg Zeppelin first labeled "UNLIKE YOU SNOWFLAKES I'M NOT EASILY TRIGGERED" and, below, falling in flames and labeled "WHY PRONOUNS IN BIO WHY"
Just another day on the Amstel, far away from most of you.
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