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Updated afk.best, a Dutch acronym dictionary

Sep 9, 2022

The website afk.best, which I launched two years ago, has got a facelift.

It’s an online dictionary helping you decipher all those tricky Dutch abbreviations and acronyms you stumble upon so often that it can drive you mad.

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Telegram channels

Mar 3, 2020

I’ve finally made it to Telegram. I’ve also created Telegram channels for the blog feed in all three languages.

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Cloudinary content backup

Dec 13, 2019

Right after migrating all my images onto Cloudinary I started to question myself: how am I going to make backups?

Nothing lasts forever, including clouds. Or, for example, one day you can lose your Cloudinary account and hence your access to the hosting altogether. Therefore the task of making a copy of your content is quite relevant.

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Report: Eonics Hack Night — Static Site Generation

Nov 22, 2019

Photo: ©Marcus Wagenaar/Eonics.

The yesterday’s event has been a success in my opinion!

I’ve had a great time, and the turn-out was even larger than expected.

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Cloudinary is the new image hosting for yktoo.com

Nov 4, 2019

I’ve finally managed to migrate off the ever-worsening Google Photos onto Cloudinary, a pretty convenient and—for the time being—free cloud image hosting provider.

Time will tell whether it was a clever choice, but I’m positive from what I’ve seen so far.

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Hugo toolbox ‣ Image figure shortcode `imgfig`

Oct 8, 2019

After a few months with Hugo I believe I’ve worked out some practices one might find useful.

In this post I’d like to introduce a shortcode I’m using a lot in my posts: imgfig.

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Glossary section

Oct 7, 2019

Photo by ActionVance.

It recently occurred to me that it would be convenient to have a dedicated section that lists the most common Dutch terms. Each term could then provide a brief explanation and references to relevant blog posts, and be linked to.

Thus there is the Glossary section now.

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