AI in Practice The Claude plan I actually use Pro subscription, a prepaid credit buffer, and Sonnet for most things. For a non-coder working with AI daily, this turns out cheaper than the Max plans.
Europe The EU Age Verification App Was Designed to Be Distrusted The EU Age Verification App is technically sound and communicated all wrong. It buried the upside, led with fear, and launched a framework as a product.
AI in Practice The article I couldn't write I tried to write about digital sovereignty. The piece kept splitting into three. That splitting, I think, is the actual story.
AI in Practice Google AI Plus, Pro, Ultra: Clearing Up a Year of Name Changes Google renamed its AI subscription three times in a year. Gemini Advanced, AI Premium, AI Pro, now three tiers. Here is what each covers, and where Workspace and the free Gemini app fit in.
AI Governance The AI Continuity Problem AI is load-bearing in my company. That creates a new kind of business risk: what happens when access breaks, gets priced out, or gets cut off?
AI in Practice The Neural Engine Does Not Run Your LLM My earlier post on AI hardware implied the Neural Engine handles on-device AI. It doesn't, not for LLMs. Here is what it actually does, and why the distinction matters.
AI in Practice Running Gemma 4 on Your iPhone Google's Gemma 4 runs offline on your iPhone. A follow-up to my local LLM experiment, now with a sharper app, a better model, and a clearer sense of what this category is becoming.
AI in Practice My First Mac App I described a workflow problem to Claude. It wrote me a compiled Swift app using Xcode. That sentence still feels odd to type.
AI in Practice ChatGPT Thinks With You. Claude Builds With You. I switched from ChatGPT to Claude. The difference isn't the model. It's the shift from cognitive support to digital crafting, and what that makes possible.
Europe Leuven's quiet superpower: imec Imec in Leuven just received the world's most advanced chip machine. The story of how a small Flemish city became a global semiconductor choke point starts in 1984.
AI in Practice Back to the file Thirty years of web technology, and the most reliable setup is still a text file on a server. We just needed AI to get back there.
Europe EU Inc.: between words and reality in Europe’s new company proposal EU Inc. sounds simple: 48 hours, €100, fully online. In reality, it marks a deeper shift in how Europe deals with its fragmented systems.
Future of Work Mapping AI Exposure Across the Dutch Labour Market From US model to Dutch labour market in an afternoon, using AI and public data. A small project that says something larger about data work.
When AI Moves Into Your Working Environment The real change in AI may not be the models, but where they run. When AI enters the working environment, the workflow itself begins to shift.
A Wider Frame: Apple’s Camera Features in Practice Curious about Continuity Camera, Center Stage and Desk View, I spent an afternoon experimenting. A small trick with QuickTime makes testing it surprisingly easy.
Future of Work A lighter computer for a different era A new iMac, a one-hour migration, fewer ports, more cloud and AI. Replacing a desktop computer now reveals how much the role of the machine itself has changed.
Future of Work The Delegation Problem of the Internet Modern life runs on delegation. Yet most digital systems assume one account, one person, one operator. Passwords and identity checks quietly block automation.
AI in Practice A Personal Retention Strategy for ChatGPT From digital scarcity to data abundance, and why I now choose deliberate reset over permanent retention in ChatGPT.
Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote: Strong Tools, Weak Culture Apple’s Pages, Numbers and Keynote are polished and free, yet rarely dominant. The issue may not be features, but culture.
Future of Work Vision, Judgement, Creativity: Reclaiming Agency in the Age of AI From analysis paralysis to agency: why vision, judgement and creativity matter most in an AI-shaped world.
The Persistence of the Table Beyond structure and data, a table is a surface where accumulation becomes glimpseable and time, for a moment, held still and open to inspection.
From text to diagrams: working with Mermaid Mermaid turns structured text into diagrams, and back again. A practical look at text-first diagramming, and why it works well with language models.
PersonaPlex marks a shift from dictation to conversation Dictation turns speech into text. Conversation works in time. PersonaPlex marks the moment voice AI starts to operate in real-time dialogue.
Europe One European Company (EU-INC) The idea of a single European company keeps returning. Not because it’s easy, but because Europe keeps running into the same limits.
AI in Practice What coding with AI feels like now There is a lot of noise about AI replacing programmers. I wanted something else: a sense of what is feasible, what is throwaway, and where judgement still matters.
