NightWorks is small on purpose. Here's what that means in practice — and who's actually doing the work.
NightWorks is an independent software studio in the Netherlands. One person, registered with the Kamer van Koophandel, building a short list of products properly rather than a long list quickly.
It exists because the interesting problems tend not to be the ones on someone else's roadmap. Four products are in active development — meal planning, civic transparency, media-stack orchestration, and personal finance — and they have more in common than the categories suggest: a canonical spec that outranks the code, data that stays where it belongs, and licences you can actually read.
The studio doesn't take on client work. There's no rate card here and nothing to buy yet. What it makes, it makes for itself and ships under its own name.
Senior Backend Engineer at Dawn Technology, on the NPO Luister team — the listening platform behind public radio in the Netherlands. Content, recommendations, and the kind of audience scale that punishes shortcuts.
It's where I learned to care about the unglamorous foundations: clean APIs, GitOps that compounds, developer experience that makes the next person faster. The work that doesn't bite you in year two.
This is where Happklaar, OpinionsBox, Lemonfiber and beatrax live — built at the pace that good decisions actually take, not the pace a roadmap demands.
Progressive, neurodivergent, and convinced the best thinking happens after midnight when the noise is gone. I try to give a little back to the world while I'm at it.
"Community is the nucleus of everything — in tech, and in life."
A believer in collective intelligence and better ways for people to work together. OpinionsBox is that belief, made into software.
Hard sciences, soft sciences, and a deep love for Kurzgesagt. Curiosity is the engine.
Gaming since I was a kid. No preferred genre, one preferred platform: PC.
Relationships are one of the most important things in life. The nucleus of everything.
The best explainer of big ideas on the internet. Check them out — @kurzgesagt.
Where I unwind. Genre-agnostic, platform-loyal — it's PC or nothing.
The soft sciences pull at me as much as the hard ones. How people think, why we do what we do.
Trying to leave the world — and the web — a little better and a little safer than I found it.
Questions about a project, a bug worth knowing about, or just saying hi — it all gets read.