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Wat zou de status zijn nadat ICTU 2,5 jaar terug een slechte Mijn PGB Portaal en migratie opleverde?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/21

Ergens zomer 2022 werd het nieuwe Mijn PGB Portaal verplicht. Voorheen verliepen declaraties en dergelijke via een portaal van het SVB. Die was niet snel, had soms nukken, maar voldeed aan meer NORA richtlijnen dan het nieuwe portaal.

ICTU is een speler die exclusief op de overheidsmarkt functioneert, dus daarvan zou je verwachten dat die snappen wat NORA inhoudt en een goed product neer zetten.

Het tegendeel is waar: ik schreef in september 2022 een Twitter draad met veel screenshots over mijn eerste ervaring met het nieuwe portaal en de migratie van de onderliggende data waaruit het tegendeel bleek.

Ik ben benieuwd hoe de status nu is.

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Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …” (research paper by Berend van der Kolk and Wesley Kaufmann)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/13

[WaybackSave/Archive] Ethics in Bricks on X: “What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior “by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results.” Link: …”

This is not limited to organisations having a lot of non-measurable goals: all organisations have those, including the ones in IT.

Research paper (published 7 years ago today, still very relevant) at [Wayback/Archive] Performance measurement, cognitive dissonance and coping strategies: exploring individual responses to NPM-inspired output control | Journal of Management Control

Abstract

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Some more links on HEARN/EARN and BITNET relay (which chat and precedes IRC)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/24

Edit 20260218: added archived links to the July 1988 “USERS’ DIRECTORY OF COMPUTER NETWORKS” and the direct link to the Kremvax article from Piet Beertema himself (in addition to the April Fools on the Net posts that were already there) .

Triggered by [Wayback/Archive] Hillel on Twitter: “Gen-Z programmers are always chasing the new shiny thing like Tailwind and Svelte instead of learning CS fundamentals, like React”, below some links on HEARN, EARN and BITNET Relay: conference system before IRC.

I might amend it later with more information, but for now the list is so that I do not have to re-do the search queries.

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Notities Warmink / Wuba staande klok met drie melodieëen en wijzers voor minuten+uren, seconden, weekdag, maand, maanstand

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/10

Inn de basis een door mijn opa gebouwde opwindbare (3 gewichten) Warmink Wuba triple chime – Westminster, St. Michael, Whittington clock.

Die liep nauwelijks meer, en sloeg zowel geen melodie meer, maar ook geen uursignaal meer.

Hieronder links die me hielpen met uitzoeken wat er van dit merk nog bestond en kennis aanwezig is.

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“United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day – #WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

[Wayback/Archive] “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day.

Most of my cancer story is in reverse chronological order on the pinned Tweet of my Twitter profile twitter.com/jpluimers.

I learned quite a few things of which I mention 2:

  • Cancer is more than a disease
  • Getting cancer is a misfortune; surviving cancer is about luck

Read more at my pinned blog post and [Wayback/Archive] Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February.

Image on the right image from [Wayback/Archive] licensed-image (2048×2048) via [Wayback/Archive] world cancer day – Google Search.

Related: World Cancer Day – Wikipedia

--jeroen

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Android/Apple Photographer Apps? : photography

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24

[Wayback/Archive] Android/Apple Photographer Apps? : photography

Related:

Query:  [Wayback/Archive] dof calculator android sunset – Sök på Google

Via: [Wayback/Archive] PH1X on X: “@jpluimers Valt zeker niet tegen, je had het diafragma zelfs nog wat verder open kunnen zetten. Ik weet de exacte afstand niet maar op zo’n grote afstand heb je zelfs op 160mm 2.8 nog een flinke scherpte diepte. Ik gebruik vaak de app photobuddy om dit soort dingen inzichtelijk te krijgen.”

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How your brain functions when you go from calm via alert and alarm to fear and terror

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/20

Boy was I surprised how bad a human brain functions when getting more stressful:

Figure 6
STATE DEPENDENT FUNCTIONING
“STATE” CALM ALERT ALARM FEAR TERROR
DOMINANT
BRAIN AREAS		 Cortex
(DMN)		 Cortex
(Limbic)		 Limbic
(Diencephalon)		 Diencephalon
(Brainstem)		 Brainstem
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Arousal		 Reflect
(create)		 Flock
(hypervigilance)		 Freeze
(resistance)		 Flight
(defiance)		 Fight
ADAPTIVE “Option”
Dissociation		 Reflect
(daydream)		 Avoid Comply Dissociate
(paralysis/catatonia)		 Faint
(collapse)
COGNITION Abstract
(creative)		 Concrete
(routine)		 Emotional Reactive Reflexive
FUNCTIONAL IQ 120-100 110-90 100-80 90-70 80-60

I got the table from a Tweet by Andrea Walraven-Thissen (see below).

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Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13

Voor op een tegeltje.

[Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “Mooi. Uit een interview met Manu Keirse. Wat een prachtige quote. “

Manu Keirse: Raakt een mens het verdriet over een overleden dierbare ooit kwijt?

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Laurens on X: “Heel goed item van Lubach over erfbelasting #Avondshow”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/10

[Wayback/Archive] Laurens on X: “Heel goed item van Lubach over erfbelasting #Avondshow”:

[Wayback/Archive] Moet erfbelasting omhoog? | De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach (S6) – YouTube

Aan de andere kant heeft inmiddels een groot deel van hele generatie hun halve werkzame leven voor een flink deel besteed aan onbetaalde zorg om de gaten van de zorg dicht te lopen. Daarmee is een flink deel van die erfbelasting gewoon belasting op misgelopen inkomsten.

--jeroen

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The Prince of Persia as a hanging Lego ornament

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/26

Prince of Persia took a big gap out of my high school time back in the mid 1980’s (:

So I am really glad with the recent revival which besides new material from the original author [Wayback/Archive] Jordan Mechner (@jmechner) / X, also leads to interesting other posts including the LEGO ornament (given the size likely from big Duplo bricks) on the right from:

[WaybackSave/Archive] Mike Mika on X: “Pretty much the coolest Lego thing ever.”

[WaybackSave/Archive] B1PtQSkCUAApXis.png (675×1200)

[WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON

Merry X-mas!

 

NB: It’s not the original, but it’s hard to find as the original is at least 10 years old.

This is the oldest I could find was this 2014-10-30 one [Wayback/Archive] Imgur: Lego Prince of Persia via [Wayback/Archive] Lego Prince of Persia : r/gaming which has a lot of nice little details on the game its development.

Oh: the skin colour isn’t exactly what’s in the Apple ][ character either, see the first picture below, but it’s close enough.

--jeroen

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