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Hi, I'm Iljitsch van Beijnum. These are all my posts that aren't work-related.

In an iPhone 7 "space is at a premium" but the iPod shuffle has room for the headphone jack

At the introduction of the iPhone 7, Phil Schiller explained the removal of the 3.5 mm headphone jack as follows:

Maintaining an ancient, single-purpose, analog connector doesn't make sense because that space is at a premium.

This makes sense at first blush, but then how is it that until a week ago, all iPhones and iPods had a 3.5 mm headphone jack. Every single one of those except for the iPhone 6s and 6s+ are smaller than the iPhone 7. The iPod nano has only 9% of the volume of the iPhone 7+:

But somehow, Apple found room in there for the 3.5 mm jack. Even if there were no room for the jack in the iPhone 7, they could have made the device a few percent bigger to make room. Or at least keep it on the much bigger iPhone 7+.

The simple truth is that Apple solved their problem by making it our problem. Just carry the extra adapter. Or two different headphones, one for the the iPhone and one for everything else (including your Mac). Or use bluetooth and hope you don't run out of power unexpectedly.

Permalink - posted 2016-09-11

Server down

If you tried to visit one of my websites yesterday or earlier today (5 and 6 august 2016), like muada.com, bgpexpert.com or skatekalender.com, the site didn't load. That was because my hosting company was doing maintenance so the server had to be shut down. The maintenance took a lot longer than expected, hence the significant downtime.

If you tried to send me mail on friday and you got an error, please try sending it again.

My apologies for the inconvenience.

Permalink - posted 2016-08-06

Hue white ambiance dims all the way to 1%!

I got my Philips Hue starter kit two or three years ago. For those of you who have been living under a rock: Hue is a lighting system. The original Hue lights are power-efficient LED lights that can display a large range of colors: deep red, blue and purple as well as not-so-deep green and all the colors in between, which includes both cool and warm white light. There's a phone app to control the color and brightness of the lights. Unfortunately, the minimum brightness of the colored Hue lights is 5%, which is still relatively bright. This is especially annoying when you tell the lights to come on or go off slowly. The jump from off to minimum or minimum to off is somewhat jarring.

Full article / permalink - posted 2016-07-14

Alle nightskates gaan weer van start!

Eind deze week krijgen we eindelijk voorjaarstemperaturen, het perfecte moment om je wieltjes weer onder te binden dus.

In Amsterdam gaat de Friday Night Skate ook gewoon in de winter door en in Groningen, Tilburg en Eindhoven is het seizoen in april al begonnen. Maar komende vrijdag begint het seizoen pas echt met de eerste tocht van de Utrecht Skate Parade. Diezelfde avond gaat de Nightskate Twente in Hengelo weer van start.

Een week later, op vrijdag de 13e, is het ook zover in Amersfoort met de 033 SKATE en de woensdag erna is er de eerste Haarlem Night Skate van het seizoen. Rol je liever overdag, dan kan je zondagmiddag de 22e terecht bij de Haagse Skatetóg (vergeet je niet in de schrijven).

En heet van de naald: de Wednesday Nightskate Rotterdam is terug van weggeweest! Vorig jaar ging de WE Skate niet door, maar dit jaar kan je in juli en begin augustus vijf keer met duizenden anderen op acht wieltjes Rotterdam onveilig maken.

Geen zin om ver te reizen? Veel kleinschaliger maar ook heel leuk zijn Haagse Royal Skate Night en Arnhem Night Skate.

En op skatekalender.com blijf je natuurlijk op de hoogte waar en wanneer er gerold wordt.

Permalink - posted 2016-05-04

Iljitsch' zondag: op 8 wielen heen en terug naar Delft

Image link - posted 2016-04-17 in

Skatekalender

Ook zo'n moeite om bij te houden waar en wanneer de friday night skates en andere skate/skeeler/rolschaatstochten gehouden worden?

Om dat op te lossen heb ik de website skatekalender.com gemaakt.

Volledig artikel / permalink - geplaatst 2016-04-12

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