Ovan

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Olivier Van Biervliet - Available for design consultancy, EU.

Senior product designer with a passion for typography, photography, and keyboards. Fuelled by electronic music and fascinated by technology. Proud introvert with ADHD and ASD, embracing neurodivergence. Cat lover, coffee enthusiast, based in Belgium. 👨‍💻📷🎹🐱☕️🇧🇪 🇪🇺

Ovanovan
2024-05-02

@atog The haze this morning was magical. No photos here, but I enjoyed it.

Ovanovan
2024-05-01

@konstantin@social.headbright.eu @mikaelacaron I have a Voyager and 2 Plancks here (and some others). It's very easy to adapt to the split style in my opinion, and it's more comfortable for arms/shoulders.

Ovanovan
2024-05-01

“Sunday” ride 🚴‍♂️

A map displays a cycling route, "Aalter - Maldegem 65K," overlaying a scenic background with trees and a water body. Icons indicate direction, distance is 64.7 km, elevation gain is 120 m, and remaining elevation gain is 120 m. Time is 2:42.
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Robb Knightrobb@social.lol
2024-05-01
A Pokemon battle from the Game Boy Color, showing a man in a red backwards cap fighting a man in a suit and hat. It says Raycast wants to battle.
Ovanovan
2024-04-30

Feline Dynamics™

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@iworx My dns knowledge doesn’t reach that far anymore

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@iworx Klopt, had je post ook gezien op LinkedIn 😎 Binnenkort hier ook eens kijken voor zonnepanelen.

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@dries @mastohost Thanks for the suggestion. Found out about Mastohost when checking the mastodon.design server info. If I move back to my own instance, this is probably the one I’d pick atm. The alternative for me atm is social.lol, which has a lot of extra services, but I never quite settled on the .lol tld. I’ll give it a good night’s rest I guess.

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@andycarolan Ah, but it’s just water and rye flour to make the starter (and some patience)

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

I’m constantly annoyed by cookie banners, and wish they were forbidden. However, it does make a difference if the copy is simple and clear, the tone of voice is friendly, and the Accept All button is not styled as the primary action. E.g. the one on Kickstarter didn’t feel hostile to me.

A cookie banner from Kickstarter.
A pop-up message displays checkboxes for data preferences, offering options like "Essential purposes" and "Advertising," asking for confirmation on a website interface.
Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@andycarolan I totally get that, it is indeed therapeutic. You might be missing out on the sourdough benefits though (and it's not hard to do) 😉

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

Thinking of going back to solo instance for Mastodon. I was a happy customer of @ossrox but wanted to know if there are other providers I should look at? European, affordable, English site.

I’d love for micro.blog to be part of that exercise, but it’s a weird mixture of blog & social that doesn’t fully solve this. Currently it feels easier to me to have a separate blog and fediverse account.

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@andycarolan Reminds me of stretch & fold I need to do for making sourdough bread 😅

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

@eWalthert They missed the opportunity to make it fully 3d extruded, nearly there on the Z. I always think "if you can't hide it, spotlight it". Instead of using the minimal amount of connectors so that you won't notice them, integrate them fully in the design.

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2024-04-29

TLDR; this is a monumental fuck-up by the EU, proving it is incapable of retaining alternatives to Silicon Valley even when it’s lucky enough to have them sprout up under its own nose. (We already know it’s incapable of producing them. Although it could, if it wanted to: ar.al/2019/11/29/the-future-of)

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(Replying to a post about Eugen’s salary.) (2/7)

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

Is anyone successfully using Apple's high performance screen sharing? support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ How does it perform with fast wifi and/or utp?

Contemplating replacing the mac mini 2018 (Intel) in my garage with an Apple Silicon one, thinking it would feel like your local machine.

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Mathijs Kadijkmathijskadijk
2024-04-29

Really liked this Luck Surface Area chart from the Indie Hackers article by Jay. Nice simple way of visualising why it's important to balance doing and telling to reach maximum impact. Also shows that it's a balancing act.

Personally I always feel that I should tell more while doing and do more when I'm telling people what we're working on. Guess that's a never-ending struggle, but also keeps me sharp. 🙂

You can read the whole post here: indiehackers.com/post/maximize

Ovanovan
2024-04-29

Catching up on podcasts in chronological order makes much more sense to my brain

A smartphone screen displays settings for a podcast, highlighting the option "Oldest To Newest" for episode order.
Ovanovan
2024-04-29

Today’s office

A white chair with a gray cushion sits in the sunlight beside a small round table with a laptop, mug, and earbuds, against a patterned shadowed brick wall.
Ovanovan
2024-04-29

Running @MonaApp with inverted timeline for a while, funny how quickly you adapt to it (including the pull from bottom to refresh).

But then I notice the notifications and direct messages tabs and I want those reversed as well 🤔

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