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@quirksmode.org

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technical writer - #browser expert - #cssday and #perfnow conference organiser - #history geek - former Later Roman Empire specialist - native of #Amsterdam - https://quirksmode.org

A bike rack with just one bike in it: mine. Has a kind of New Beginnings vibe.
Big board game boxes: Anachrony, Weinar, Yedo, Trickerion, And a few others
Books for the official Charlie Stross’s Laundry Re Playing Game
Stacks and stacks of board games, and if you think I’m going to list the all you’re out of your mind.
Glass and ceramic art objects on a shelf.
Four art pieces, one glass and three ceramics, on a shelf, with reasonable lighting.
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Title leaf of a Gothic (to German) dictionry, including Crimea-Gothic, with a photo of a Very Serious gentleman, Sigmund Feist, who does not look feisty at all and curiously is not a Herr Doktor Professor.
Closeup of buttons: hufduffer, unknown, FFConf
Sign with Caution quicksand Attention sable mouvant Pas op drijfzand Herzlich wilkommen
Google query: 'How many ts in throttle' AI response: The letter "t" appears four times in the word "throttle".
Keycard for room 404
Not one but TWO empty seats next to mine in the plane. My book about a Dutch scholar with an unpronounceable name lies on one of them.
Weather app saying Amsterdam is sunny, 27 degrees
A browser list: Ecosia, Chrome, Aloha, Opera, Web, Brave ...
One of my bookcases, brown, mostly filled with SF/Fantasy books (Charles Stross, Harry Turtledove, Tolkien, Asimov, Herbert) but also some detective-adjacent (Sjöwall & Wahlöö, Dutch writers Havank and Ivans; NOT Agatha Christie, not sure where they are), and, lying on a row of other comics, the great Freak Brothers compendium.
A mysterious, blurred-out look at the Line up section of the CSS Day site that you can also reach via the link in the main text.
A game of Weimar in progress. There are too many game pieces to describe, especially because I'd also have to explain the rules.
No alt. I don't understand the fucking image. That's the fucking problem.
Portrait of me.
A coffee cup with a sticker saying Web Monetization <link rel="monetization">
A coffee cup with a sticker saying Web Monetization <link rel="monetization">