Rijk van Zanten

@rijk.nyc

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🐰 building @directus.io 🎓 teaching at parsons 🎸 playing bass in heavenly faded 📍 brooklyn, ny

Screenshot of a terminal window saying "Migrate this project to Vite+? Yes"
Screenshot of the Discord app "Downloading update" screen
Picture of a teapot with black and white cats on it
Screenshot of an email sign off saying "Beast, Rijk" instead of "Best, Rijk"
Screenshot of a notification from Uber saying "+$0.01 Uber Cash Added. From Uber Customer Support, to use on rides or eats"
Screenshot of Google Docs "suggestions" saying Rijk van Zanten replaced the "x" character with "×"
Alexandre Chopin and myself saying hi after the Vue Amsterdam conf talk
Screenshot of a Dutch government website with a warning notice box saying "test"
Picture of a painting on the wall of an Italian restaurant picturing a clothed sun holding a bottle
Poorly AI generated image from the prompt "Rijk in a black and white prison outfit running away holding a cup"
Screenshot of GitHub's "All caught up!" graphic in the inbox
[redacted] changed the title from "Directus it self is a bug please remove directus from internet" to "There is something wrong"
Video of me typing "star eyes" and having it replaced with an emoji on iOS's keyboard
Screenshot of a bit of code showing an <svg> tag with it's width and height defined in mm with 5 digits of precision
Screenshot of my final keynote slide saying "Don't build your own CMS" with a drawn on comment saying "Unless you're Daniel Roe doing a 30 min demo of exactly that right after this talk"
Screenshot of a snippet of CSS using text-box-trim and text-box-edge for typography
Picture of my cat Kuro laying down on my trackpad and keyboard
Picture of me from the viewpoint of my webcam with in the background a bookshelf with my cat on it staring at the camera
A photo of the view of Toronto from my hotel
Screenshot from the American Airlines website stating I don't have permission to access the check-in resource on the server.
Cold outreach email with an obviously AI-generated first paragraph "Saw on LinkedIn that you spoke Duits. I've heard that the untranslatable "Gemütlichkeit" captures the essence of comfort and cozy gatherings in German culture beautifully. Have you had a chance to practice it recently?"
Screenshot of the dictionary definition for "fubar". 1940s: acronym from fucked up beyond all recognition