Joost 'LocalJoost' van Schaik

It's not my habit to post 'AI slop' but this is brilliant. For a software developer it's hilarious and painful at the same time to see. It makes me laugh, as we say in Dutch, like a farmer with toothache www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNp...

RIP Margaret Hamilton, pioneer in software engineering, who was responsible for for the software stack that guided humanity to the Moon. Ad Astra, forever.

You gotta be kidding - apparently not :D aviationweek.com/defense/airc...

My #WalktheWorld #MR app died mid 2025 when Microsoft decommissioned the Bing Elevation API. Found a way to revive it using different APIs - leaner & faster. Walk the World 6.0.2.0 landed in Microsoft Store again yesterday, HoloLens 2 1st. More platforms coming. apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p6sv...

#zeppelin over the Netherlands 😕

This is an amazing archival montage documenting AR culture of HoloLens 1 & 2. Michael Hoffman says, "On the Microsoft HoloLens team, I had this idea to tell the HoloLens story in photos, so started collecting every image I could find, over 1,600." Lots of history here! picmotif.com/u/hoff/tribu...

Store-less XR devices based on Android (like #MetaLense2) can't update via a store. New post: using Device Owner + RealityCollective #ServiceFramework to silently self-update an app, zero taps. Demo + source included. localjoost.github.io/App-update-s...

Recently the MetaLense 2 came to my attention. This is a fully-fledged Mixed Reality device from P&C Solution in Seoul. It seems to be getting fair use in Korea, but is nearly unknown elsewhere localjoost.github.io/Playing-arou.... Iwrote down my experiences and how it compares to the HoloLens 2.

'nuff said #MVPBuzz

#AWE2026 keynote has started www.youtube.com/live/bsqQG4i...

Yay! Finally my custom built rig is on a 26200 #Windows build

Squirrel on fire China squirrel Surfer squirrel

Although #Snap #Spectacles are clearly targeted towards consumers, I'm sure many enterprises are keeping an eye on it. I tried to integrate #Microsoft #Entra Device Code Flow, which allows authentication for use of secure services on #Azure. It works! See localjoost.github.io/Microsoft-En...

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Why are people who give the harshest unfiltered honest feedback get almost invariably extremely pissed off at even the slightest critique themselves?

TIL you should not short circuit a Aqara T1 no neutral switch, when you plan to use them more than once. Fortunately the fuse box in the utility closet prevented worse than mere fried electronics. And I did it twice.🤦€50 down the drain. I wasn't fully awake apparently. This is not my day.

Shared: Microsoft Releases PowerToys v0.97.0 With New CursorWrap Utility ift.tt/uOB0QE1 #WinObsWiKi

Well I'll be bucketed. #Northernlights over #Amersfoort! Visible from my first floor front window! It even shines trough the cloud. I must say it takes a camera to really see it but still

Someone once said that if David Bowie would die, the world would fall apart. Quite prescient and pretty much spot on, I would venture to say, 10 years after the fact.

#Unity moves fast and break things, in this case my #MRTK3 demo on #Apple #VisionPro on slightly higher versions - as happens often. I spent some (okay, a bit too much) time on trying to find out why, and came up with a solution making the app run again localjoost.github.io/MRTK3-apps-o...

About last night... participating in a citizen science project sometimes tells you things you'd rather not know #fireworks #pollution #particlematter

Good luck to anyone working on the #ER / #SEH (Spoedeisende Eerste Hulp), the #firebrigade or the #police in the Netherlands tonight. I fear it's going to be the mother of all #NewYearsEve. I also hope from here on things will be better.

Using UIKit made creating buttons in Lens Studio so much easier compared to using plain Spectacles Interaction Kit... but we lost a few things, like fine grained behavior control, and sound effects. I show you how to bring those to UIKit buttons. localjoost.github.io/Controlling-...

If you are at #UnitedXR next week - I will not be there, but my friend @jbmcculloch.bsky.social and his colleagues *will* be there, *with* Snap #Spectacles. If you have not tried them out yet, this is your chance and you should really take that chance

Dear #FedEx, your chat bot is so stupid and limited that I think it is a net negative to your value as a courier

The latest version of Visual Studio brings instant startup, improved debugging and diagnostics, and deeper GitHub Copilot integration. #VS2026 enhances productivity across every stage of development with modern UI updates and tighter .NET and Azure connections. Learn more: msft.it/63321tTtbH

@richcampbell.bsky.social maybe your crack shot aunts life can be filmed as "crocodile Dundee's NZ niece" 😂. I LOL'd at the boar story

Having a car with voice control and kids in the rear with that particular sense of teenage humour must be a recipe for insanity if not disaster 😂

RIP Jane #Goodall. Science lost a great mind, humanity - and its close relatives - a great and kind person.

Boom! Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! The world’s most popular IDE just got an upgrade. Read this post by the one and only @madskristensen.net I can already tell you it compiles and edits Mixed Reality app *just fine* ;) devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Annoying behavior by Dutch charities: calling me on the phone, profusely thanking me for supporting, then starting a long story... I stop them after 30 seconds saying "can we skip forward to the part where you start begging for more money?" I hate those scripted call centres

Y'all I should order one? 🤣

Snap Inc employees seem to be almost exclusively using Mac, so using Windows for Spectacles development requires you to know a few not-so-obvious things, particularly when it comes to deploying apps using USB cables. This is how to get it working, quirks and all localjoost.github.io/Deploying-on...

One of those days... and it isn't even Monday

And here's me complaining about the neighborhood cats invading my garden... this is next level

For HoloATC for Snap Inc. #Spectacles, I made a component to select a location specifically on the floor. I spun that off into a reusable component and described how to use it - and for the more technically inclined, how it works. localjoost.github.io/A-Lens-Studi...

OMG Randall Munroe, never change,. This one made me lol and even showed it to my non-nerd wife, and she laughed too. www.xkcd.com/3121/

Slightly diminish a band: Rammpebble

#MRTK3 and #Unity is going places - proving you can even run C# on an #Apple #VisionPro. This blog details how you can move an existing MRTK3 XR solution to run on the AVP. localjoost.github.io/Adapting-MRT... Yes folks, it finally happened. I have a Mac. Only used for AVP development though ;)

After a Lens Studio project keeping me occupied for half a year, I finally made some time for blogging again. For my Lens Studio app, I made an architectural piece of code called a "Service Manager", Which made me run into some peculiar TypeScript things again. localjoost.github.io/Service-driv...

Mood

What if heaven exists and when we get to the gates St Peter asks “how many unused domain names did you have?”