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Maarten van Gompel
My name is Maarten van Gompel, also known as proycon on the internet. Welcome to my homepage where I share some of my work and interests. I live in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with my boyfriend Hans and our dog Jaiko. I have a great passion for languages and technology, and especially those areas where they meet! I work as a research software engineer (just a fancy word for computer programmer) in the field of Natural Language Processing. I'm a unix enthusiast committed to open-source software and an advocate for more security, simplicity, privacy and decentralisation. I love learning languages, coding, reading (mostly science fiction), working on my home automation system, playing the piano, and walking our dog.
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All posts (68)
Codemeta Harvester This is a harvester for software metadata. It actively attempts to detect and convert software metadata in source code repositories and converts this to a unified codemeta representation. The tool is implemented as a simple POSIX shell script that in turn invokes a number of tools to do the actual...
Analiticcl Analiticcl is an approximate string matching or fuzzy-matching system that can be used for spelling correction or text normalisation (such as post-OCR correction or post-HTR correction). Texts can be checked against a validated or corpus-derived lexicon (with or without frequency information) and spelling...
wvkbd: On-screen keyboard for wl-roots This project aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C. It is not my original work. The project was started by John Sullivan. I and other Sxmo developers extended it and took over maintainership.
Sxmo: Simple X mobile - A minimalist environment for Linux smartphones We presented Sxmo at AlpineConf 2021: Details shown in this video: Hardware: Pinephone 1.2 Environment: Sxmo Distribution: PostmarketOS, on top of Alpine Linux Window Manager: dwm Terminal: st Virtual Keyboard: svkbd Note: our IRC channel moved...
Clickclack Clickclack is a simple haptic feedback and audio feedback tool. It does nothing more than emulate the clickclack sound and vibration when pressing keys. This tools reads from standard input and emits a vibration and/or a sound whenever it receives a character. It is intented to be used in combination with...
Een antwoord op corona-skepsis Inleiding We zitten midden in een pandemie met ongekende maatregelen die de meeste van ons in het westen nog nooit gezien hebben. Het coronavirus en alle maatregelen zorgen begrijpelijkerwijs wereldwijd voor opschudding. In dit opiniestuk reageer ik op het verschijnsel van de...
The Disinformation Age They say this is the Information Age, but it may as well be called the Disinformation Age given the state of current affairs. This week, an angry mob stormed the US Capitol, whipped up for months, if not years, by an ever increasing torrent of falsehoods from their President. The shock of how...
Homepage update: from Hugo to Zola At the start of 2019, I launched a new incarnaton of homepage (yes, I still call it "homepage", it has a nice nostalgic touch to it of a time where people still bothered to create their own little corner on the internet instead of joining corporate social networks en masse) . I had...
SVKBD: Simple Virtual Keyboard This is a simple virtual keyboard, intended to be used in environments where no physical keyboard is available. This is a suckless tool and is not my original work, I simply extended this software with a lot of functionality needed for sxmo, a mobile environment for the pinephone.
Sxmo: Simple X Mobile Sxmo, or Simple X Mobile, is a collection of simple and suckless X programs and scripts used together to create a fully functional mobile UI adhering to the Unix philosophy for the Pinephone. You control the UI largely through using the Pinephone buttons (press different numbers of times...
SXMO: Simple X mobile - demo video on a pinephone Details shown in this video: Hardware: Pinephone 1.2 Environment: Sxmo Distribution: PostmarketOS Window Manager: dwm Terminal: st Virtual Keyboard: svkbd Browser: surf The above are standard for sxmo, some customisations shown in the video: Reddit client: tuir Mail...
Vocage Vocage is a minimalistic terminal-based vocabulary-learning tool. It presents flashcards using a spaced-repetition algorithm (e.g. Leitner); words you know well will be presented less and less frequently and words you have problems with will be repeated more often. You quickly move cards/words between decks...
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