About

…me

This is the verbal playground of Guido Beekman.

I’m fascinated by information flows. After spending considerable time working with visual information through photography and visual arts, my interests have shifted towards the “behind-the-scenes” mechanics of how information travels and transforms. This manifests in several areas:

• Code implementation and architecture
• Information presentation and structure
• Marketing and persuasion techniques
• Disinformation, manipulation and deceit analysis

I’m a self-confessed command line enthusiast—I dream in vim and consume Python methods and Linux commands for breakfast. Conveniently, command line output integrates seamlessly into structured articles.

Whenever feasible, I favour open source solutions over their closed source alternatives.

…this website

While I enjoy writing about technology and instructing others, these articles also serve as personal reference material (answering questions like “how did I achieve that particular result?”).

Tech stack in use

This website runs on a custom-built Flask-based micro-publishing platform. Previously hosted on Pelican—a solid platform in its own right—I found it somewhat limiting for websites extending beyond simple blogging. Flask makes creating something like this from scratch relatively straightforward when leveraging Blueprints and the application factory pattern for architecture.

The site also implements the brand new Tailwind CSS v4. Since this was released in January 2025, I am still getting used to this major update and will use this website to play around with its new features.