Hat tip to Rolle, whose Now page I stumbled upon – and who in turn was inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now page project. Maybe in my case it’ll be more of a “Lately page”, but who is counting, right? No promises about upkeeping. It is what it is.

• Not being a software engineer myself, it occurred to me that code is not the only way to achieve a working prototype of Siftler’s collaborative filtering logic. Since I had written and re-written functional requirements in a human-readable form as a way to instruct software development, I realised that I could also express the core algorithm as an AI prompt, in procedural natural language. In other words, the prompt becomes the algorithm. Siftler AI prompt v0.1 is now on Codeberg. Find it, and my newsletter, at The Information Stack. (April, 2026)

• Genuinely pumped about the Siftler engine – seeing my brain child come to life through the EU-funded data-spaces project DAME. It’s the collaborative filtering recommender system for information discovery that you and I have always wanted. (February, 2026)
• My favorite Dutch podcast is Met het Oog op Morgen, a radio show celebrating its 50th anniversary this month (January, 2026). I listen to it daily, usually while walking our dog. I’m still looking for a Finnish equivalent that covers the day’s news, background analysis, context, in-depth discussion, culture, and entertainment.

(Updated: April, 2026.)