Michiel van der Ros

Music lover, kitesurfer, juggler, traveler, snowboarder, freelance web and game developer.

[DEVWorld Conference @devworld_conf]

A new batch of videos is uploaded on the DEVWorld YouTube!

Check them out here by visiting our YouTube channel!

Featuring talks from:

Bernhard Mayr @bemayr Senior Research Engineer at @storyblok

Oleksii Liashuk Lead Data Engineer at BrunoDevelopment

Michiel van der Ros @micros from @TomTom

Shokoofeh Ketabchi, PhD from @Capgemini, Ania Hajdrowska from engaged.lab, and Kimberly Fuqua from Microsoft

Pragya Arora from @Adyen

Jérémy Durand from @okta

Alex Shershebnev from @zencoderai

Saravanan K Nagarajan from @Rabobank

Burcu K. from @PostcodeLoterij

Mikhail Chechulin from AUTO1 Group

Daniel Thompson-Yvetot from CrabNebula

Thank you again to all our speakers this year! We hope to welcome them again for 2027!
And if you're interesting in knowing when tickets are available for next year's DEVWorld, head over to https://t.co/P62y5WsmEx

[Scott Tolinski @stolinski]

if you aren't already on pnpm (which i don't know why not), now is a good time to switch.

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OMG this Lego video!

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How To Prevent A Rewrite?
A talk about large codebases, techdebt, lock-ins and still having fun!

On May 8 at 9:00 I'll be speaking about this at Duck Stage 1 of the DevWorld Conference in RAI Amsterdam. @devworld_conf #devworld2026

Agenda is live now - https://t.co/Z758IdUAai

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@GoogleDeepMind This got me thinking: Why not use distributed computing, like with seti@home in the 2000s, when the idle cpu time of members was used for heavy calculations? @GoogleDeepMind

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@wesbos Lots of people commenting it’s a good deal. But the point is how sustainable it is. One factor is the amount of paid subscribers hardly using tokens. Like the gym subscription model :)

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@addyosmani Great timing. I’ll finally build my own email client that makes mail manageable instead of unread mails piling up that are impossible to group or sort or bulk process.

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@elonmusk Claude is on the correct side of history.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Boris created Claude Code. His point here is important - when AI handles the code generation, the engineer's value shifts to the decisions above the code:

1. what do we build?
2. why? for whom?
3. and how it all fits together.

The bottleneck was always judgment, taste, and systems thinking. AI just made that more obvious.

[Branislav Slantchev @slantchev]

To the idiots blabbering blithely about Greenland and “US doesn’t need NATO,” do us all a favor and check what US power projection requires and what losing our presence in Europe, with all the bases and logistical infrastructure to support global deployments, would entail. Next check what it would cost us to man all the resulting gaps in the Atlantic and Arctic defense, and explain where we’re going to build substitute ports and bases if we wish to retain a foothold in the Middle East. I know you people seem to think that the U.S. magically teleports entire brigades thousands of miles away or that aircraft carriers can just float around for years on their own, but this is truly unserious bullshit. If you thought America was spending “too much” on defense because of NATO, just wait until you learn what we would have to spend without NATO to maintain even a fraction of our global influence.

Losing NATO — which is what will happen if we attempt to coerce Denmark (read Article I) — will be the surest and fastest way to global decline. Now, if you are Russia or China, you would surely welcome this. But if you are an American, you wouldn’t.

The administration is either bluffing or they are incomparable idiots the likes of which we have never seen in our history, or we will have to revisit that kompromat idea that I have always resisted.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this is a catastrophe. StackOverflow provided data to LLMs, LLMs replaced StackOverflow, and now no new Q&A hub exists to provide fresh data. it’s a self-undermining causal loop, like mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone.

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@evanyou Claude writing Svelte apps with faux-React code. Full of weird unnecessary refs and hooks and incorrect event bindings.

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@BiankaB12 I am only here to check the other team. And a few interesting people.

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@elias_raccoon @Kasparov63 Well they don’t rule by decrees and pardons. So it’s actually better.

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@elonmusk They said the same BS over red hair. And the what? We’re all humans.

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@unclebobmartin Since Grok gets trained on wannabe-reality instead of facts maybe it also gets trained on wannabe-code?

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@DavidKPiano Even though we have a small version of this too, I can’t wait to replace it with something better, instead saying there’s nothing wrong with it.

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@thepauljones @signulll To level the playing field, keyboards should have an uncaps lock key. Or caps unlock.

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@wesbos Dune 2

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@ThePrimeagen Similar problems for GPS locations. People talk about Latitude Longitude, which is Y. X. And in many datasets it’s an untyped array. MapLibre solves it a bit by calling it LngLat.
Oh and you can spell Longitude as Lon, Lng or Long. 😱