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last updated 2026-04-28

Inspired by nownownow.com. A snapshot of what I am thinking about, building, and reading right now. Not the polished portfolio version, the actual current state.

Building

• Multi-country joint embedding model for the geospatial similarity engine. Currently validating cross-country generalisation on European cells.
• Polishing this site. Reflecting on what to put in the timeline so it reads as a story rather than a list.
• Reading code in the open-source Agno and MCP repos to keep current with how the tooling is evolving.

Reading

• Papers on retrieval-augmented generation for geospatial reasoning.
• Whatever ends up open in tabs from the Latent Space and Interconnects newsletters.
• Slowly, "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" again. It rewards re-reading.

Thinking about

• Where the right boundary sits between an LLM's tool-use capability and an explicit DAG. Some workflows want the model to decide; some want the engineer to.
• How to evaluate agent quality when there is no single correct answer (the "judge" problem).
• The ergonomics of a data-quality platform that scales by adoption rather than mandate.

Off the clock

• Running waterside trails near home in Almere.
• Cycling commute when the weather agrees.
• Studying Dutch toward B1.

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