Lachen, Switzerland · Writing since 2015
I'm Remco. I write about what I'm learning, at work and away from it. Long essays when something deserves one, short notes when it doesn't.
A naming round for a new venture in medical aesthetics produced two reusable things: a phonetic constraint anybody can apply across four languages, and a two-stage availability check that asks the registry instead of DNS.
Read now · 5 min →Anthropic's Claude Duet is the proactive assistant many of us were waiting for.
Read more →A correction made in June was live-wrong again in October, because the build engine that renders the page was never updated.
Read more →Health claims accumulate in ad accounts one headline at a time, until a piece of furniture is advertised as a treatment.
Read more →The iPhone Duo reviews agree: stellar hardware, software not ready.
Read more →SAP runs the back office.
Read more →A daily scheduled routine carried its own claim that two replies were drafted.
Read more →What's going on, in a sentence or two.
Bart and I are going to build something new every week. First lesson: dog food has slim margins, and mobility products shouldn't make you feel old.
Read the post Just build it: something new every week with BartSpent a day at school with my daughter today. A first for me, and just fantastic to spend that time together. She's growing up so fast.
A year with an au pair — what it made possible for our family, and a thank-you at the end of a chapter we'd choose again without hesitating.
Read the post Our au pair flew home last night. The house is quieter this morning. Four country shops still displayed a twenty-euro saving three weeks after the sale ended \u2014 while the cart charged full price. In the same week, promotion assets with no end date were still pointing at a removed landing page. A promotion is a set of artefacts, not a date.
Read now · 5 min →Amazon is the best-prepared store an AI shopping agent could ask for, and it's blocking them.
Read more →Microsoft relaunched Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot.
Read more →I watched Joanna Stern's Zuckerberg interview on camera.
Read more →The migration plan listed nineteen files carrying the old domain.
Read more →Prime Days are two days.
Read more →Meta put its Muse AI assistant on a keychain.
Read more → One undeliverable lead led me to sweep 830 directory listings against the commercial register. Sixty-eight of the companies were deleted or in liquidation.
Read now · 4 min →Hundreds of free-text business descriptions already contained the site's service taxonomy — written in 2,390 spellings.
Read more →An automated gap report compared bank lines against an index that only knew one of several folders.
Read more →Claude Cowork just got a built-in browser, seventeen days after OpenAI switched off Atlas.
Read more →Every search ad in the account pointed at a category archive.
Read more →A board member asked why online ROAS doubled at flat revenue.
Read more →An automated SEO check that needed a browser on my laptop, scheduled in the cloud.
Read more →Every essay and note since 2015 — 274 pieces, by month or by topic.
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