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Jan Van Boghout
Jan Van Boghout

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Aug 26, 2020

Don’t asterisk it

For a non-native speaker, I have a pretty good* grasp of the English language. Enough people have told me as much that I believe it, but my fluency ebbs and flows with the environment I’m in. After moving to the Netherlands I could tell my English was starting to atrophy…

Life

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Life

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May 23, 2020

Baked Goods

Entire pies fueled my high school cramming. Coworkers know me as the cookie monster, a sugar peddler or the patisserie king. Some of my happiest memories are watching my grandpa prepare his signature apple cinnamon pie and doing early morning runs for breakfast rolls. The smell of bread right out…

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May 15, 2018

Fifteen Crazy Years: a Toast to Life

As I start writing this piece on my iPhone, I’m on a train to a new city, a new job and a new life. Seems fitting. When I started MacRabbit more than fifteen years ago, smartphones didn’t exist, nor did fast wireless internet on a high speed train. I was…

Life

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Fifteen Crazy Years: a Toast to Life
Fifteen Crazy Years: a Toast to Life
Life

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Mar 22, 2016

Our never-released image editor project could be yours (Slicy, too)

Some time ago, MacRabbit was working on Codename Magenta, an amazing image editor for Web and UI designers. Slicy was initially a proof of concept to play with the idea of element-based exporting (a brand new concept at the time) while we developed a rendering engine. The Magenta project was…

Web Design

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Web Design

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Dec 30, 2015

Try Again

Every time you fail, your brain pops up a dialog box. As a kid, it’s a barely conscious decision. Try Again, pulsating in bright default button colors. Cancel doesn’t fully exist; your return key is shiny, new and always down. Failing is easy, because it’s binary. Trying again is simple. …

2015

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2015

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Jan Van Boghout

Jan Van Boghout

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I like to make things - Ex-MacRabbit

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