I’m in the midst of rebuilding the index of my search engine to allow for better search results, and I’ve yet again found need to revisit how I handle link farms. It’s an ongoing arms race between search engines and link farmers to adjust (and circumvent) the detection algorithms. Detection and mitigation of link...

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Recently I participated in a very useful panel that aimed to demystify European digital sovereignty. Even though we spoke for more than an hour (video), we obviously were not able to fix all of Europe’s sovereignty problems! The event was...

He reaches out Sometimes I read a book and I start laughing at just how bad things keep getting regardless of the beste intentions of the characters in the book. Having now gone through a few of these expanse books, I knew that the crew of the Rocinante, were going to see wild things in the through the gates. But I...

In a blink of an eye, we're happy. We may be achieved a goal or finalize a project. This happiness usually lasts for one blink, maybe two. In this short moment, we perceive happiness, a life filled with great pleasure. Although thousands of bad stuff await us, we're blind to them. Many software companies are built...