Builder. Tinkerer. Pragmatist.
West-Flanders based. I work at the intersection of systems thinking and making things that actually run.
In 1984, the PC office ran on three programs: WordStar, dBASE III, and Lotus 1-2-3. I'm rebuilding all three for the browser. Not emulation — clean-room reimplementation. The interface stays sacred, down to the quirks. What gets added is the one thing 1984 couldn't do: multiple people in the same file at the same time.
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WebWordStar — The 1978 word processor George R. R. Martin never gave up. The full diamond,
^Kblocks, dot commands, and a terminal aesthetic over WebSockets and SQLite — now with real-time multiplayer editing. v1.0 shipped. -
WebBaseIII — dBASE III, dot prompt and all. TypeScript interpreter, WebSocket/Node backend, WAL-mode SQLite, per-session isolated executors. Unlimited work areas, because we're no longer rationing DOS file handles. Shipped. Because some ideas deserve a proper second life.
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Web123 — Lotus 1-2-3. The slash menu, @functions, keyboard-only cell navigation, and live collaboration on the same worksheet. In design now. This is the missing third of the trinity.
Then the endgame: all three on one shared virtual disk, integrated the way 1984 did
it — interchange files, not APIs. dBASE writes a .wks, Lotus reads it, WordStar
mail-merges the records. One Docker Compose file, one URL, the whole office. And once
there are files worth managing, WebCommander: two blue panels, F5 to copy. You
know the one.
Everything is AGPL and written to be read. If you ever ran an office on these
programs — or wish you'd been there — there's work that fits in an evening: @functions
for Web123, missing dot commands, or muscle-memory bug reports from people whose
fingers still know ^KB. Open an issue on any repo, send a PR, or just come argue
about period authenticity.
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rgwnd — Wind-optimized cycling route planning for the Belgian knooppuntennetwerk. Built for the rider who treats headwind as a variable, not a surprise.
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Taperwise — Deterministic medication tapering calculators for clinicians. No AI. No hallucinations. Just math that doesn't kill people.
Self-hosted on Hetzner. Docker Compose, Caddy, Tailscale. I assemble existing tools over building new ones when that's the honest answer. I have a bias toward shipping things that work over announcing things that might.
18 years of Microsoft Dynamics NAV/Business Central in a past life. Still useful. Not the whole story.
Daily 30km on a non-electric bike. Working toward building custom steel bicycle frames — fillet brazing, laser-cut dropouts, the whole thing. Somewhere between hobby and slow-burn second career.
Also: Latin (Familia Romana), algorithmic music (Strudel/TidalCycles, dark warehouse techno), and a philosophy paper that keeps getting longer.
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