wouter bolsterlee

@wbolster

software dev by day 🧑🏼‍💻, musician by night 🎶🎹🎷, human being throughout 🙃 music, tech, society, urbanism, future of the planet, ally 👗🏳️‍🌈✊🏿🇺🇦 🏠 the hague, netherlands 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍 🗣️ english, dutch 🤓

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wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· 12d

ehm, to be clear, the correct phrasing is ‘it really ties the room together’

How to start

‘A rug helps anchor all the pieces’: how to start decorating your home

https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/aug/03/how-to-start-decorating-your-home

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jul 18

this dragonfly was in the mood for steampunk cosplay

dragonfly / libel, perching on a chalkboard sign with a small metal chain attached

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jun 24

goeie tekenaar ook velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jun 9

ja maar HOE dan? tegen verkeer in, parkeerstrook, paaltjes, fietspad, dan pas bosjes en hek? 🤯

foto uit nieuwsbericht. auto tegen hek, tegen rijrichting in

foto van de straat. parkeerstrook, paaltjes, fietspad, dan pas bosjes en hek

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jun 7

hello little frend 🐝

(i believe) a tree bumblebee (boomhommel, bombus hypnorum) feeding and pollinating on what will soon become delicious raspberries 😋 from our garden 🏡

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· May 20

jia tanstack really? can't believe i am the first one to make this terrible joke. well, here you have it.🥁 ba dum tish #javascript #security

google search results showing ‘no results found’ for the literal query ‘jia tanstack’

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· May 13

wow, invasive alien species in the garden! didn't expect to see a 🦝 raccoon / wasbeer / waschbär. and yes, really, in the eu #🇪🇺: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

raccoon 🦝 in the garden (königswinter, germany)

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Apr 15

well done! 30º seems about right 🚐 🌊 (no casualties, so i can make jokes: www.omroepwest.nl/112/5091160/...)

delivery van partially submerged in water, roughly in a 30º angle. the print on the van partially obscured ‘30%’ which looks like ‘30º’ 🙃

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Apr 10

you have it backwards 🙃 (tbh i love this håg capisco chair and i have one at home. raise it slightly higher to perch/sit-stand)

håg capisco 8106 reversed https://hag-office.com/products/capisco-8106

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Apr 3

how it started: visited a modern dance 🧑🏼‍🩰 performance tonight, had a wine 🍷 or two afterwards… hey cool i hear live music 🎶 further down the building! how it ended: joined the band 🎹 with a singer i met two minutes earlier 😎 (yes i admit those wines did help get me on stage 🙃)

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Apr 1

🌷

tulpen / tulips / tulipa

blauwe druifjes / grape hyacinth / muscari botryoides

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Mar 18

theater de regentes, den haag 🇳🇱 serves as a polling station today for the municipal elections #gr2026 #verkiezingen #denhaag quite a special location to cast your vote. it even has live music #🎶 for the voters… yep, with me playing the piano! 🎹

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Mar 11

love / hate relationship here 😬 (browsers, actually)

/* As of the time of writing (2025-11), Chrome 142 (stable channel)
and Chrome 144 (dev channel) on Android in landscape mode
incorrectly report a nonzero ‘safe-area-inset-left’ or
‘safe-area-inset-right’ (at the side of the camera notch) when
‘viewport-fit=cover’ is used on the page, even though the area
around the camera is not used by the web view at all (except in
full screen mode).

fixme: this hack breaks when using ‘zoom out’ (non standard
option, not the same as pinch zoom) in Chrome on Android, because
the media queries use viewport sizes which resize along with the
zoom level, not device sizes. Detecting physical sizes is
possible (see e.g. https://whatismyviewport.com/) but may require
JavaScript (window.screen.height and .width).
*/
@media ((orientation: landscape) and (width < 1024px) and (height < 768px)) {
/* Browser detection hack based on open-props ‘--chromeONLY’ in
the ‘supports’ module. */
@supports (-webkit-app-region: inherit) and (not (container-type: none)) {
@supports selector(:fullscreen) {
&:not(:is(:fullscreen, :has(:fullscreen))) {
--safe-area-inset-inline-end: 0px;
--safe-area-inset-inline-start: 0px;
--safe-area-max-inset-inline-end: 0px;
--safe-area-max-inset-inline-start: 0px;
}
}
}
}

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Mar 2

shoutout to the person who scribbled a complaint in the margin of this 50yo book (which i found in a ‘minibieb’ street library) using the pseudo-intellectual faux latin phrase ‘in ultima analysi’, stating ‘nonsense! analysis is greek, not latin’. amen brother 🙌🏼, neither is it italian 🤝🏼 #lingsky

reader complaint in the margin of an old book. book in dutch, with a weird latin phrase used for no good reason. nonsense! it says

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Feb 24

today is not a quiet day at the office for the russian embassy in the hague. enjoy 4 ukrainian anthems, out of sync and out of tune! 🙉😁 #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini the embassador: ‘i want it to stop right now’. so do i, the organiser replied 💪🏼 – nos.nl/artikel/2603...

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Feb 18

snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) just announced their european ‘somni’ tour! #🎶 and… woohoo i just got my tickets for the groningen (netherlands) show! 🎉 (ticket sale for the general public opens in a few days – hmu if you need insider info about pre-sale tickets 😉)

snarky puppy somni european tour calendar; also available at https://snarkypuppy.com/tour

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Feb 15

example from this weekend's volkskrant newspaper magazine: ‘gewoon voor de lekker’ / ‘just for the [tasty]’ (and no, this can not refer to tasty people or tasty things like in english)

gewoon voor de lekker, volkskrant magazine, 2026-02-14

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Feb 13

#🎶 franz von chossy group playing their concept album ’mirror 9’ (based on the enneagram personality types) in amare, den haag. didn't really know what to expect… was very positively surprised, fantastic performance! 🤩

franz von chossy and 5 other musicians playing in bright pink purple red green lights

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Feb 3

time sync(1)… or time sink? 🤓 (7 minutes on a nvme drive, really?)

the sync(1) command taking over 7 minutes… despite this being an nvme drive, so this is definitely software being slow

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jan 30

me, famously wearing half of my headphones… headphone? 😜

still from the video with me in the audience, taking off headphones, with french horn players in the background

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jan 30

heh, someone made a nice remark about… me appearing in that video! 🙃 💞 snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) videos are the exception to the rule about never reading youtube comments

youtube comment:

0:15 I love this guy taking off his headphones so he can listen to all those strings he's surrounded by, unmediated.

my reply:

heh, thanks! that guy is me (not kidding). 😎

and yes, it's really nice to be surrounded by the acoustic instruments (horns & strings), but as someone else also wrote: the headphones 🎧 are really needed because without them you can't hear most of the musicians, both b/c of electronic instruments (no monitor speakers in the room!) and the sheer distance (musicians spread out over the whole floor to maximise microphone isolation).

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jan 29

yay i made it into the official video: #🎶 snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) + metropole orkest playing ‘only here and nowhere else’ 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8V...

my face showing up in the background between the musicians in a snarky puppy + metropole orkest recording 😎

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jan 21

yw! fwiw, the popular ‘minimal’ theme for obsidian supports a bunch of alternate checkboxes. details here: minimal.guide/checklists

obsidian minimal theme showcasing various alternate checkbox list items

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Jan 9

zo is dat ja

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Dec 23

homemade always tastes best 👩🏼‍🍳😋🎄

homemade xmas bread with raisins and almonds

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Dec 20

❤️ hartstichting: ‘drink zo min mogelijk suikerhoudende frisdrank’ coca cola: *gebruikt bijna zelfde logo voor reclame voor frisdrank* ♥️ echt schaamteloos dit

hartstichting waarschuwt tegen suikerhoudende frisdrank

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Dec 16

kom op @politie.bsky.social, jullie hebben zeker iemand die iets van sociale media snapt. jullie posten er zelf nieuwsberichten over nota bene. beschamend dit. dienstbaar was het toch? hops, regel dat nou gewoon even…

poging tot online contact met de politie. eerst even langs de bot…

… om vervolgens een mens te treffen, maar die helaas niets nuttigs wil/kan/mag betekenen 🤷🏼

onverrichterzake, doei dan. ze snappen het niet en willen ook niet iemand contacteren die het wel zal snappen 🤷🏼

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Dec 15

me: browsing the internet like a normal person internet: here's a very technical error message with a database password in the middle this is fine 🐕☕🔥 #infosec

undisclosed website unexpectedly showing me a huge error message with technical shit and a (admittedly partial) database password hidden in plain sight

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Dec 10

i hope @github.com gets a wrapped container on flexboxing day 🎄🎁🤓 #css

screenshot of a multiline wrapping issue in the mobile view. username is spelled as

u
s
e
r
n
a
m
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b/c of lack of space

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster· Nov 25

😕 none of these get turned into hyperlinks on my phone. i tried chrome, samsung internet, and firefox. when i select the text the popup offers a dial button (‘bellen’ in dutch), on all three browsers. it's not an os thing b/c firefox doesn't recognise the en dashes, for example.