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About Geffrey van der Bos

Designer at Stichting NSR, helping people navigate financial stress. Privacy-conscious, plain-text advocate and allergic to vendor lock-in. Husband to Illustrator Julia; guardian of Loki the Shiba Inu. Obsessed with extreme music and music science.

GitHub @[email protected]

2026

• Manifesto of curiosity
• Productivity with background music
• Music with(out) dynamics

2025

• Privacy and security
• All you need is 3 plain text files
• Introduction to music theory
• Why we are never satisfied

2024

• Defining music is surprisingly hard
• Convert Spotify library to markdown