Elwin van Eede

Gave my website a fresh coat of paint 🎨 elwinvaneede.com

Domplein in Autumn, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Oh damn. Maybe the real design system was the friends we made along the way

Another Utrecht Sketching Community meetup, this time celebrating Utrecht Heritage Day (on September 12th). In the morning we visited Stadsklooster Utrecht in the former Antoniuskerk. In the afternoon we visited Villa Jongerius.

In the beginning of August I joined the Utrecht Sketching Community meetup at Castellum Hoge Woerd (Netherlands). The building is a modern interpretation of a Roman fort. It was a lovely day with fellow urban sketchers. So nice to see all the different styles, subjects, and points of views.

At the end of August I biked to Fort Voordorp with my new folding chair and support board and made a sketch of the fort, which is part of the New Dutch Waterline.

Ink and watercolor sketch of the water tower at the Neckardreef in Utrecht.

Having a hot drink to cool me down.

The Thin Red Line is the best war movie that isn’t a war movie.

My first Criterion Collection editions (4K UHD + Blu-ray). Love the packaging, the booklets, and extras on discs.

Some urban sketches I made during my holiday to the Ardennes: elwinvaneede.com/art/ardennes...

1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com

My first urban sketch. The gatehouse and former coach house at Rhijnauwen and Amelisweerd, just outside Utrecht. I finished up the line and wash painting at home.

Recently started experimenting with Line and Wash painting.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms exceeds my expectations. Game of Thrones early seasons quality is back. Episode 4 was so captivating.

Beautiful film about nature, grief, and transforming loss into art that I felt deeply. #Hamnet #Filmsky boxd.it/woVy

If you’re living in Finland, this is a great opportunity!

These are the top 10 films I watched in 2025: elwinvaneede.com/blog/2026/to... #filmsky

My annual music recap is here! 20 favorite songs released in 2025, been doing this since 2016: elwinvaneede.com/blog/2025/th...

Album Of The Year, indeed.

So happy with @vitest.dev Browser Mode being stable! Migrated legacy Jest component tests that used jsdom, tested implementation details, and mocked web components. Now: reliable user-facing tests with getBy* locators, no mocking, running in a real browser. Tests what users actually see and do 🎉

My personal website is now part of the lovely CSS JOY Webring (cs.sjoy.lol), thanks for adding me @sjoy.lol!

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀 Please, don't break anything! 👉 bruno-simon.com

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

Good morning coffee

Great talk by @derk-jan.com at the @fronteers.bsky.social meetup in Utrecht about practical solutions for accessible components.

Just finished this brilliant book recap of The Will of the Many: youtu.be/1fLvIXEnaFY?... Now onto The Strength of the Few, which has been released today. Can’t wait to see what this Hierarchy series further has in store. The first book was outstanding.

@matthiasott.com Your website seems to be down, at least for me. I get a ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR.

So looking forward to this new series on Apple TV: Plaribus (from Vince Gilligan, the maker of Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad) starring Rhea Seehorn youtu.be/a6lzvWby9UE?...

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

I'm very excited to announce the release of the #WebComponents CLI validator! Now you can validate your web components in your build pipelines. #html #javascript

Some photographs I made in Alicante last month. I was there for a work offsite.

I rated One Battle After Another 4.5 out of 5 boxd.it/bbN8k9

Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on. We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊

Dutch late night TV has its take

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Is there a german word for the irony of purchasing a screen protector only to have your phone’s screen crack before taking the time to put it on?

AMS ✈️ ALC

Ruin a book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title: Tom Clancy’s Odyssey

I spoke with a few developers about their experience of AI tools being effectively mandated and learned some horrors in the process. I do give some advice on how to navigate this for people experiencing the same as these contributors though. piccalil.li/blog/are-…

Recently finished Astro Bot (PS5). I give it a 4.5 out of 5 rating.

Excited to finally be migrating the Nord Figma Toolkit to Figma Variables.