Middleware Engineer & DevOps Specialist
I'm a middleware engineer/Devops, Dad, writer, and digital autonomy advocate based in Brussels. I geek out on information systems, democracy, justice, coercive groups, and discernment.
A personal hub for long-form writing, curated bookmarks, and open-web experiments — where ideas about tech, autonomy, democracy, and digital culture meet. DevOps engineer, IndieWeb enthusiast, and OSINT enthusiast based in Brussels Read more →
continuing from my previous post, now I also have a “read it later” plugin for indiekit, this means i can save things for later from several parts of my backyard
Whatever I save for later ends up here
its really handy because my RSS aggregation is configured to NOT keep items indefinitely, it will keep the last 30 items and flush everything else but if I save something from somewhere then its safe on my read it later vault
For years, my RSS reading and my writing have lived in parallel worlds. I consume through feeds, but I publish through my blog. I am increasingly convinced that this separation makes no sense, at least for a segment of my RSS subscriptions.
I have been thinking about moving my RSS reading habits outside of FreshRSS and expanding my custom RSS feed reader to import my OPML from FreshRSS.
The goal is simple: build a fully custom RSS reader with a built-in authenticated Micropub feature, deeply integrated with #indiekit.
If you’re reading this, you cannot see those interaction buttons because you’re not logged in.
On my side, I can click a button and send any item I’m reading directly into my blog’s new post creation flow. This means I can quickly comment on any external URL I’m subscribed to, and I can do so as a native IndieWeb Like, Bookmark, Reply, Repost, or even a full blown Note or Article.
When I click this “post button” either on blogroll, podroll or news or in the backend with Microsub, I can select the post type in advance.
Based on that choice, it prefills the title and URL in the appropriate fields of the post creation flow.
This may seem trivial, but for me it changes everything. I have long wanted to collapse the distance between reading and publishing, between consuming feeds and participating in them. News should not live in one silo and my blog in another.
Concretely, I might be on my podroll page listening to a podcast episode and decide to react. In just a few clicks, I can publish a response on my blog and syndicate it to Bluesky and Mastodon. Reading becomes publishing. Subscribing becomes participating.
My RSS workflow becomes part of my writing workflow.
I figured that if I really want to blog more often about what I read, explore on the web or my coding experiments my blog would need to become a hub for me, not just a blog in the open.
What’s your setup?
Rumored : Israeli Strike Kills Khamenei’s Relatives, Military Secretary; Khamenei Likely Dead 4 minutes ago
Israeli strike reportedly dropped 30 munitions, killing relatives of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his military secretary, with reports indicating Khamenei is almost certainly dead.
@FaytuksNetwork
Channel 12’s Amit Segal reports that 30 munitions were dropped in the strike, Khamenei’s relatives and his military secretary were killed, and that Khamenei is “almost certainly” dead.
This is really neat for interrop !
2022-02 – Present
Real-time monitoring and analysis platform for open-source intelligence The OSINTukraine initiative is a specialized endeavor dedicated to open-source intelligence (OSINT) pertaining to Ukraine. Its primary objectives are the collection, archiving, translation, analysis, and dissemination of critical information related to the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. Utilizing advanced OSINT techniques, the project offers in-depth insights into current events, potential security threats, and other relevant issues concerning Ukraine. This is achieved by monitoring numerous Russian telegram channels, followed by meticulous filtering, categorization, and archiving of data streams. These efforts are further enhanced by various OSINT analysis projects incubated within the initiative." Current sub-projects War crimes archive Drones research Location related alerts system
2023-01 – Present
Chardons Bleus is a non-profit association created to raise and manage funds so that people victims of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling cult and its criminal leader Robert Spatz can effectively access the justice system. The association exists to pool resources, cover legal and procedural costs, and provide a collective framework that makes long and complex judicial actions financially possible. It also acts as a point of coordination between contributors, legal representatives, and supporting professionals, with the clear purpose of enabling accountability through lawful proceedings that individuals could not sustain alone.
2002-11 – Present
BuzzWorkers is a long running personal project dedicated to curating, preserving, and publishing independent electronic music and DJ mixes spanning Techno, Electro, Trip Hop, Acid, and related experimental genres from the 1990s to today. Over more than twenty years, I designed, operated, migrated, and maintained the full technical stack behind the platform, evolving alongside the web itself. This included working with multiple generations of hosting, audio tooling, content management systems, databases, automation scripts, streaming and download infrastructures, and more recently federated platforms such as the fediverse and Funkwhale. Beyond music production and curation, the project taught me long term system design, data preservation, platform migration, interoperability, and the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized architectures, while managing large media collections and making them reliably accessible on the web for community and educational use.
2023-10 – Present
“Skyfleet”, a fleet of thematic and news-oriented Bluesky accounts powered by RSS feeds and FreshRSS, with pages that track their sources and purpose, plus a hand-curated directory of custom feeds with clear inclusion criteria so people can discover active, maintained feeds and share their own
2015-10 – 2022-10
OKCinfo was launched at the end of 2015 as a desperate last minute attempt in a 20 year long existing trial launched by the Belgian state against the OKC cult in 1997. The 23 of us – supported by more than 40 other former OKC-born young children – have since been supported by talented lawyers ready to champion our cause. The Belgian chapter of the justice battle against OKC was concluded in 2022, the pedocriminal Robert Spatz was condemned to a 5 years suspended sentence. The victims decided to engage a new Justice battle in france under the banner of Association Chardons Bleus
