<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Articles</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/atom.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"/><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/><author><name>Ron Dekker</name><uri>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/</uri></author><updated>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</updated><entry><title>How AI companies make it harder to stop</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/how-ai-companies-make-it-harder-to-stop-working/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/how-ai-companies-make-it-harder-to-stop-working/"/><summary>AI companies sell tools that promise to save time while their usage windows, expiring allowances and pricing make it harder to stop working.</summary><published>2026-08-26T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Artificial intelligence"/><category term="Human wellbeing"/><category term="User experience"/></entry><entry><title>We must decentralise the internet further</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/we-must-decentralise-the-internet-further/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/we-must-decentralise-the-internet-further/"/><summary>The internet was built to be open, resilient, and decentralised. Now it's fragile and controlled by a handful and we face the dangers of centralisation.</summary><published>2025-10-25T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Amazon Web Services outage"/><category term="Cloud oligarchy"/><category term="Digital freedom"/><category term="Decentralisation internet"/><category term="Network resilience"/><category term="Open protocols"/><category term="Technology ethics"/><category term="Web infrastructure"/></entry><entry><title>The hidden costs of AI convenience</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/the-hidden-costs-of-ai-convenience/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/the-hidden-costs-of-ai-convenience/"/><summary>AI can increase output while weakening the expertise, autonomy and bargaining power that workers and organisations need to remain independent.</summary><published>2025-04-16T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Artificial intelligence"/><category term="Critical thinking"/><category term="Labour"/><category term="Technology"/></entry><entry><title>Improving the core web vitals of the NC-CMS2</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/improving-the-nc-cms2/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/improving-the-nc-cms2/"/><summary>Discover how I improved the user experience of a content management system. Learn about the strategies and methodologies used to enhance web vital scores.</summary><published>2024-06-18T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Performance"/><category term="User experience"/><category term="Core web vitals"/><category term="NC-CMS2"/></entry><entry><title>The yes-and problem with artificial intelligence</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/the-yes-and-problem-with-ai/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/human-experiences/the-yes-and-problem-with-ai/"/><summary>AI can cite credible sources and still misrepresent them. The problem begins when generated continuation is presented as established knowledge.</summary><published>2024-06-02T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-09-03T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Artificial intelligence"/><category term="Critical thinking"/></entry><entry><title>How do browsers load websites?</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/how-browsers-load-webpages/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/how-browsers-load-webpages/"/><summary>When surfing the internet and clicking on links you have to wait for everything to load, but what are you waiting for the browser to do?</summary><published>2024-05-13T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Loading webpages"/><category term="Performance"/><category term="Web browsers"/></entry><entry><title>Why improve your website's performance?</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/what-are-core-web-vitals/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/web-performance/what-are-core-web-vitals/"/><summary>You're browsing the internet and click on a link, anticipating what lies beyond, but you're met with a loading spinner.Can we do better?</summary><published>2024-05-06T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Performance"/><category term="User experience"/><category term="Core web vitals"/></entry><entry><title>Designs need to respect its users</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/designs-need-to-respect-its-users/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/designs-need-to-respect-its-users/"/><summary>Learn about the importance of designing with user respect in mind as well as readability, usability, and accessibility for creating user-friendly designs.</summary><published>2024-02-25T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-31T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Design"/><category term="User experience"/><category term="Accessibility"/></entry><entry><title>Never accept solutions from your users</title><id>https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/never-accept-solutions-from-your-users/</id><link href="https://rondekker.nl/en-gb/articles/design-thinking/never-accept-solutions-from-your-users/"/><summary>When my boss asks me to implement a feature I always remind him 'Don't think in solutions but problems'. Sounds weird but let me explain.</summary><published>2024-02-04T00:00:00Z</published><updated>2026-08-25T00:00:00Z</updated><category term="Problem solving"/></entry></feed>