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rpwverheij

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I'm a passionate software engineer & artist in service of Life.

I've passionately committed myself for the last 11 years in search of the ultimate web technology. I've ended up building a CMS and programming framework for the Semantic Web. I'm launching this now as Semantu. It brings together Graph Database Technology, App building, Data visualization, Virtual Reality, Block-chain, Hand gestures, Multi dimensional story telling, Linguistic A.I. and others.

Above all my mission to reshape the internet so that it helps us to make sense of the world, helps us organize ourselves and helps us solve our biggest problems, together.

See www.semantu.com

Contact me at rene@semantu.com or telegram @renereborn

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rpwverheij··on 4-Day Fast
If you want the fast to have a detoxing effect, skip the 2 - 4 cups of coffee per day
rpwverheij··on Why are browsers so slow?
tnx for the tip, installed it. 1 million users, so it must be doing somethign right
rpwverheij··on Introducing Custom Elements
Ah yes that's what I was wondering. So Custom Elements are actually part of the Web Components standard, and it looks like it was already implemented in Chrome and Opera, works with a flag under Firefox and so now it has landed in Webkit / Safari, right? Besides Edge, and safari's support for HTML imports, it looks like Web Components implementation is slowly getting there. What about uses? Are there any popular webcomponents out there yet?
rpwverheij··on Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web
This looks really nice and well set up. I love the fact that you chose typescript and bundle a good definitions file. I totally understand homepage performance was not on the agenda yet, and its really no big deal to me, but I have to agree with others on the mobile support: this sadly crosses blueprint of my list for 99% of my work, if not all. Will be coming back to see where to project is going though!
rpwverheij··on General Elections 2016 in Iceland
what happened there?
rpwverheij··on General Elections 2016 in Iceland
Great to see TPP get a significant place in national politics. Im quite interested to see how the coalition talks will go. Their intended colaboration of the TPP, the Left-Green Movement, Bright Future, and Social Democratic Alliance is not going to work. The central right Independence Party is the biggest party so I guess it will probably be the first one to attempt to form a coalition. If they join with the new and also right-wing Regeneration they will have 28 of the required 32 seats, and then it's a question who else would join. Not sure if TPP would want to join two right wing parties? TPP and the left green movement have 20 seats together, so they'd need the Independency party (unlikely together with the Left green I suppose) or 2 other parties.
rpwverheij··on Carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon
yes, which still leaves me wondering. the latest silicon transistors also use a lot less energy then they did just a few years ago right. So in what way does it compare to silicon transistors. Compared to 14nm? 10nm? Or in general? For transisters of the same size?
rpwverheij··on Show HN: Granim.js – Create fluid and interactive gradients animations
really nice! I was looking for something like this a little while ago and couldnt find it. bookmarking
rpwverheij··on Organisms might be quantum machines
what if the nature of the physical universe has no other reason to be as it is other than mathematical consequences of harmonies, resonances, balances, etc? In other words: if all that exists follows mathematical law, doesnt that make math part of the existential?
rpwverheij··on Show HN: Use Windows 10 Apps APIs Directly from Node.js and Electron
Yes I'm wondering about this too. Say I want to build a windows application with electron, and I want to use geolocation or bluetooth, does the app need a module for each version of windows if I want to support multiple versions of windows? Or would it perhaps even be possible to generate the modules for the appropriate windows version on the fly from the app itself?
rpwverheij··on Inferno: A fast, React-like JavaScript library for building UIs
ah thank you for the summary of the licences. that moves inferno off the table for me too. sadly though, cause I was really getting interested with it being written in typescript.
rpwverheij··on jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate
agreed, if you want to keep things simple jQuery is still a nice tool and ES6 only makes it nicer to type, ES6 does not improve native DOM manipulation
rpwverheij··on “We will end development on Firefox OS for smartphones after the 2.6 release”
it's running on TV's too, which seems to be at least slightly more successfull
rpwverheij··on Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over the last 30 days
looking at the chart there are plenty of places there was more increase in difficulty in 30 days. In the whole 2014 difficulty seemed to have multiplied 40 times! I understand the magnitude is a whole different story now though..
rpwverheij··on WebGL water scene
you really think the water in the boat is not intentional?
rpwverheij··on React.js three renderer example
Any info on the performance of react-three-renderer? Does it make things slower / quicker compared to similar setups with only three.js ?
rpwverheij··on How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours
I'm an indy developer who travels & works at various places in the world. I'm often working a place deep in the jungle, where there is some electricity but no internet. Not being able to work if I don't connect to the internet within 30 days will indeed decrease my happiness with JetBrains big time :(
rpwverheij··on React Context – Helpful Context Like AdBlock and OS
the lib seems very small, and will come in very handy. nice work!
rpwverheij··on Announcing TypeScript 1.5
oh man, this makes me so happy. Two projects I really really enjoy are finally coming together without any hacks. I knew it could only be a matter of time - and I had it working with a little React.jsx(`<component />`) hack, but still, having the TS team implement it natively just makes it feel right. thanks to everyone involved! ... Can't wait till webstorm will fully support this with component property intellisense and everything. woot!
rpwverheij··on Show HN: Belle – Configurable React Components with Great UX
looking really nice. Specifically the toggle is something I was looking for. This looks like clean use of markup and proper setup of CSS with good docu. Will definitly embed this in the future, and looking forward to see even more components. good stuff!
rpwverheij··on 8^8 – Find another you
nice idea. I stopped at the first question though. The answer that would correctly describe my average situation at a party involves a combination of 3 of the mentioned answers and probably 3 others that were not mentioned, so I doubt a test with 8 questions with each 8 answers can match me properly to someone that is very much like me.
rpwverheij··on Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
I agree. As someone who just helped transition the main product of a company from polling towards socket.io + node.js, I can tell you the main name they know, somewhat understand and praise is "nodejs". To them that's the keyword to what made everything so quick and responsive. If I had to tell them at some point that actually nodejs was a bit behind and now we should move to io.js that would have been a bit confusing at least. Now, I can just be happy that "nodejs" will be the "awesome cutting edge tech" for me aswell as for them.
rpwverheij··on Typedrummer
http://typedrummer.com/zn2p6t
rpwverheij··on Tesla Powerwall Battery Economics: Almost There
I liked his post "Why Energy Storage is About to Get Big, and Cheap". In this article he says that Tesla Storage is not quite cheap enough for most to buy on a purely cost-benefit basis, yet. But it will be in 3 to 5 years, if not sooner. I find that really exiting. I'm wondering if they will be able to keep the supply up with the demand once this really becomes a smart cost effective move for a lot of people. Even with the huge battery factory Tesla is building.
rpwverheij··on Virtual-dom – A Virtual DOM and diffing algorithm
exactly.. Just in case you want virtual DOM, but not the rest of React, this comes in very handy
rpwverheij··on A Deep Dive on React Native [video]
yes, like updating the position in a sorted list you mean right. And did you also get it to work with touch events on mobile? I have an open question about that on SO http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27837500/drag-and-drop-wi...
rpwverheij··on A Deep Dive on React Native [video]
Ah, ok. Good to know. You just listen to the drop events and then update the state of react?
rpwverheij··on A Deep Dive on React Native [video]
yes, this is a good question. I still have to implement drag and drop in a react project, and it seems the way to go is do this all through state? Which means none of the existing drag and drop solutions will work (any DOM manipulation without react knowing about it will cause trouble), and since react is relatively new there is seems there is still a need for good reusable animation components/mixins, and in the mean time, it's all a bit more manual work.
rpwverheij··on A Deep Dive on React Native [video]
View, Text and Image should be cross-platform, and might even be targeted for web at some point. And more components could be. But they emphasised that you should be able to _choose_ how much code you want to re-use cross-platform, and that you should always put energy in targeting and perfecting for specific platforms
rpwverheij··on Introducing React Native [video]
Is 'tomorrows' video online yet? Can't seem to find it, or has it not been tomorrow yet? :)
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