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Rob J Meijer

@pibara

Author of #HIVE-first-published mythpunk novel "Ragnarok Conspiracy", multidisciplinary engineer and data/infosec geek, working on making #coinZdense a real...

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Aug 28, 2026, 11:58 AM UTC

Codeberg vs the Open source spirit: How codeberg destroyed it's reputation by trying to protect it from the exact values that make open source great.

I've been writing software for about 40 years and open source software for about 30. My first open source software was a web contact script called TecFORM that I ended up making open source because t…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Aug 18, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

Too real

The story below is both fiction and not. It is very close to my real life, perhaps a bit “too” close. I have changed names and places to protect the innocent and the guilty (depending on how you look…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jul 22, 2026, 9:41 PM UTC

HF-JSON 2.0: A type-rich textual data exchange format

In this blog post I'm attempting to take High Fidelity JSON (HF-JSON) out of the Merg-E language spec and define a programming-language independent version of HF-JSON: HF-JSON 2.0. While serializing…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jul 11, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

Version 0.3 of the Merg-E language specification : The $threshold keyword and logging.

This is part twenty-five in a series on the language spec for the Merg-E Domain Specific Language for the InnuenDo Web 3.0 stack. This post refers to both version v0.3 and version v0.4 of the languag…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jun 30, 2026, 11:14 AM UTC

RVC Seed-coding: A prototype/experiment vibe-coding alternative ?

(Image by Gemini AI) This is the 4th post in this series on Reverse Vibe-Coding or RVC. The previous posts can be found here: 1) The semi-manifesto 2) Workflow for refactoring 3) Context regarding re…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jun 23, 2026, 5:30 PM UTC

Version 0.3 of the Merg-E language specification : The merge parts of Merg-E

This is part twenty-four in a series on the language spec for the Merg-E Domain Specific Language for the InnuenDo Web 3.0 stack. This post refers to both version v0.3 and version v0.4 of the languag…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jun 18, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

A (future) challenge for language models to show it is AGI

(image generated with Gemini) ## The X AI parallel universe On X, there is quite a big community of people who seem to be living in a parallel universe. A parallel universe where language models, spe…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jun 10, 2026, 10:24 PM UTC

Version 0.3 of the Merg-E language specification : Flow control and exceptions.

This is part twenty-three in a series on the language spec for the Merg-E Domain Specific Language for the InnuenDo Web 3.0 stack. This post refers to both version v0.3 and version v0.4 of the langua…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara Jun 9, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

AI for software engineering. About ASICs for AI, reengaging with syntax, embracing provenance, RVC, model-in-a-box and what to think about the AI IPOs.

(Image by Gemini AI) This is my third post in the Reverse Vibe-Coding series. If you prefer watching an 8 minute video over reading a 20 minute blog post, check here. This post isn't directly about R…

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Rob J Meijer
@pibara May 30, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

K-IX (Part-I : chapter 1)

If you enjoyed my novel Ragnarok Conspiracy, today I'm starting with a short chapter for a new novel, K-IX. A Sci-fi story about secrets, alien civilications and cosmic level destruction. As before,…

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