Joost Schuur

@joostschuur.com

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Web dev/product manager @planetplay Digital nomad in Europe (currently: Southern Germany!) Passions: Data science, content curation, workflow tools #ADHD 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱🇨🇳 joostschuur.com · github.com/jschuur

Screenshot of the History section of The Hassle's band entry on Wikipedia with highlighted text: 'In 1966 Weber was fired from the band due to his excessive drug use (he was found dead a few years later on a railroad track)'.

Philodendron hederaceum with variegated yellow/green leaves sitting on a two tiered plant stool near a couch and a chair. You guys better leave a nice comment!

My dumb little interaction with Cursor in chat where it was trying to make me feel better while debugging a TypeScript next.config.ts.

iPhone home screen showing a warning that it stopped charging due to the temperature and a reminder notification to 'Eat ice cream'.

Belgium gaining land from the Netherlands and Germany in an alternate history scenario map.

Slightly faded, abstract yellow flower painted on a pavement with 'Yes you matter' text.

Street art on a wall, showing a variation of Martin Niemöller's 'First they came...', written over a US flag:

First they came for the immigrants
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an immigrant

Then they came for the trans people
And I did not sueak out
Because I was not trans

Then they came for the protesters
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a protester

Then they came for the socialists
AmI did not speak out
Because I was not a socialist

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Famous 'fuck this shit' meme with the text 'Fuck it, I'll just use Nest.js again' and a frustrated guy throwing papers in the air, followed by him picking them up saying 'Just kidding, I should work on my problem solving skills'.

Screengrab of Joost in a video sharing stream, his hands raised up and shrugging as if suggesting 'Hello???'. A small living room can be seen in the background, including plants he's very please to be keeping aiive and a large canvas panting of Rothko's Orange and Yellow that he loves.

Code snippet of a Typescript function that returns a prompt for a trending topic for an LLM call. A highlighted section shows very explicit wording ment to ensure only English language links are used: 'IMPORTANT: ONLY include links to articles written in English with English titles. Do not include any links to non-English content. Links must be from English-language publications'.

Hover card in a list of Bluesky trends foro 'Alcatraz' accurately summarising the latest news about why the topic is trending with recent links.

Screenshot showing a grid of Bluesky trending topics with categories and post counts. Caturday is a newly 'hot' topic and an hourly breakdown shows how categories distributed over time.

Partial screenshot of a PlayStation 5 Home Screen, showing only 14 hours to go until a pre-loaded copy of Assassin's Creed Shadows unlocks.

Mechanical keyboard on a desk with all of its keycaps removed and laid out in the right order underneath it. Zoom in and you might see some gross dirt.

Screenshot with the '<think>' reasoning portion of a response from a deepseek-r1 AI model query for a lasagna recipe, with key phrases highlighted where it's talking to itself about how to put together the response.

Screenshot of part of Claude's reasoning output in Cursor saying 'the user seems to understand...'

Awkward guy with glasses in a dimly lit room with a small stage behind him and a few other concert goers in the frame.

Basic Command K popover box showing content type names like 'Cards', 'Audio' and 'Topics'.

Socialblade table showing daily Twitter followers/followings, with 523 people unfollowed on the previous day alone.

Github issue comment asking 'Any update on this'

Bearded man, walking a stafie dog in London, with paper bag in his hand.

A Tesco cactus being held up in one hand in a blueish ceramic with a blurred street in the background. The cactus is still in its plastic wrapper from the shop and a price label reads £5.

Man with beard and winter hat (me) holding a large rubber plant in a white bag in one hand while awkwardly taking a selfie with it in an elevator mirror.

1 meter tall rubber plant still in a white plastic bag, standing on a kitchen aisle. Next to it is an orchid.

The colourful Christmas lights on the London eye

Wide show of the theater play Kyoto with the audience sitting around the stage that looks like a round conference table. A lead actor stands on the stage and a red box highlights an immersive seat next to other actors.

Man pointing at an old punchcard sorting machine that is set up behind glass at the London Science Museum.

Punchcard sized card in a wooden frame that reads 'If anything can possibly go wrong, it will go wrong'.

Chart with jargon usage in scientific papers on the x axis and citations on the y axis, showing an increase in citations when there is less jargon in the title.

Duolingo's 2024 Year in Review saying I've made 1185 mistakes this year waving way too enthusiastically.

Shell script to dynamically generate SQL with the DuckDB CLI and then execute the output file.

SQL error when trying to run dynamic SQL in DuckDB because it doesn't support `query_execute`

Screenshot of 5 separate, stacked alerts at the top of the AWS payment methods page after updating the primary card.

Mo and Joost, going outside, while she could

App showing local, open food markets with a map, distances and time left open.

Response from Claude AI to the question of what events after its cut off date it was curious about. The list includes AI regulation, Gaza, elections and climate change.

Row of social media web app icons in a macOS Sonoma doc. Seen is Threads, Instagram, Twitter (for some reason now called X), Pebble, Bluesky and TikTok. A dot under each of them indicates that they are all running.