William van Zweeden

Some stories

  1. My Take on AI, Fall 2026 We’re Not Talking About the Same Thing Two Stories, Same Week A couple of weeks ago, I opened Claude Code, gave it one serious prompt and a couple of hyperlinks,… Life, Technology
  2. Here’s What I Learned When Building BetterRunning What BetterRunning is BetterRunning is three things pretending to be one thing. The app: a SwiftUI and watchOS coaching tool that reads your running data, most of it captured through… Life, Technology
  3. Reviving the Pace-Layered Application Model in the Era of Agentic AI There was a time when Gartner’s pace-layered application model felt like one of the more practical ways to talk about enterprise software. Not because the model was perfect. No model… Productivity, Technology
  4. Even Structured Data is Becoming Liquid I expected the field to fail. I typed “Facebook, Instagram” into what looked like a plain text field, without selecting anything from a predefined list. In the old world, that… Technology
  5. When systems start documenting themselves Not because shared context stops mattering, but because documents are becoming the wrong place to maintain it. I have been living in the personal knowledge management space for quite a… Productivity, Technology
  6. Why I built BetterRunning Earlier this year, I found myself doing something slightly ridiculous. After a run, I would take screenshots of my workout data and copy them into ChatGPT or Anthropic. I wanted… Life, Technology
  7. When Every Answer Is Free, the Only Thing Worth Paying For Is the Question Every question I asked had an answer. I didn’t expect that. I’ve been playing around with building my own iOS and watchOS application recently, a hobby project, nothing more. Evenings,… Life, Technology
  8. The New Tana — Built for the Agentic Era I’ve been a Tana Outliner user for a while now, so when the team shipped a completely redesigned product, I had to take it for a serious spin. After two… Productivity, Technology
  9. Why I Built Over Bought The Accidental Developer: Why I Built a World Cup App for My Son It started simply enough. My son, who is almost nine, is completely swept up in World Cup… Life, Technology
  10. The Ones That Hurt the Most… Last weekend, I completed my fourth half marathon, one year after I ran my first. Like last year, the place of action was The Hague. And Scheveningen. And back to… Featured, Life

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