Why I'm building howtokris.nl in public
A short note on the why and the how of the site you're reading.
There’s a particular kind of practice — call it technical writing, but more broadly documenting things — that I keep returning to. I do it for software during the day. I do it for myself in the evenings. This site is the outward-facing version of that habit.
What lives here
Three layers, mirrored in the navigation:
- Wiki — a personal wiki and zettelkasten. Long-form lecture notes (Human Language Technology, VU Amsterdam) live alongside small atomic zettels, and an LLM-built domain graph stitches the two together. There is an ask the wiki search box.
- Blog — opinionated essays in progress.
- Projects — applications and experiments. Most are agent-assisted. Many are computational-linguistic in spirit.
What’s coming
Phase 1 ships the skeleton + wiki. Phase 2 brings the project apps online: an Anki-deck generator from PDFs, a workout generator and library (cycling .zwo files and weightlifting programs), and a properly absurd revival of zaakpro. Eventually, an iPhone capture app for voice notes that drop straight into Drive and pick up at the next build.
There is a deliberate choice running through all of this: long-form is in MDX in the repo. Short-form is captured in Drive. The wiki bridges them. Agentic tools (Droid / Factory) edit the long-form; humans edit the short-form. It’s an experiment.