Credit where credit is due.

What it's built on.

• Next.js — App router, server components, the whole site sits on it.
• React
• TypeScript — Strict mode. Worth every red squiggle.
• Vite — Both sibling apps (Snoek & Partners, AI-ftershow) build on Vite.
• Tailwind CSS — Used inside the iframe games. The main site is plain CSS + tokens.
• lucide-react — Icons, including the ones inside Snoek & Partners.
• ffmpeg — The mastering chain on every podcast episode.

What it talks to.

• Google Gemini — Gemini 3.5 Flash powers the Prompt Scribe exhibit and the in-game chaos engine.
• Nano Banana / Imagen — Image generation for the article illustrations + portrait sets.
• Veo 2, Veo 3, Veo 3.1, Omni — Every clip in the video-models article. Subject of its own piece.
• NotebookLM — Featured in the Interactivity article; the audio-overview pattern inspired the podcast format.
• ElevenLabs — Every synthetic voice on this site is from ElevenLabs Voice Design + their TTS API.

Where it lives.

• Google Cloud Run — Hosts the Next.js container in europe-west4.
• Google Cloud Build — Pushes to main fire RTNLPUSH; one-step deploy.
• Google Secret Manager — Holds the Gemini API key, bound cross-project from rutger-dml.

Code I pulled from.

The external GitHub repos this site was built on top of. The examples in google-gemini/cookbook in particular saved hours on the render scripts.

• google-gemini/cookbook — Reference examples for the Veo + Nano Banana render scripts. The polling-and-download pattern in render-clip.py came straight from here.
• googleapis/python-genai — The Python Gemini SDK used in render-clip.py and the Win95 portrait generator.
• google-gemini/generative-ai-js — JS SDK conventions for the /api/gemini server route powering the Prompt Scribe exhibit.
• vercel/next.js — The framework. Everything from app-router conventions to next/image lives downstream of this repo.
• vitejs/vite — Build tool for both sibling apps (Snoek & Partners, AI-ftershow). The base-URL trick that makes the iframe game resolve under /boardroom-game/ is a Vite feature.

Mine.

• github.com/rutgertuit/RTNL — This site.
• Snoek & Partners (Boardroom_Game) — Sibling repo. The Dutch ad-agency roguelite, embedded via iframe at /creative/boardroom-game.
• AI-ftershow (DML) — Sibling app. The Prompt Scribe live exhibit was ported from here.
• rutgertuit/Luminary — Voice-first deep-research agent. Referenced in the Interactivity article.

Permanent open tabs.

Four channels I keep coming back to. None of them sponsored anything here; they just kept showing up in my feed and in my thinking.

• Two Minute Papers — What a time to be alive — Károly's been my AI-research weather report since 2017.
• David Ondrej — Sharp on what the agentic-AI build stack actually looks like week to week.
• Colin and Samir — Best ongoing read of the creator economy and the YouTube platform.
• Yaro / yaroflasher — Editing craft + creator-life from someone who actually does the work.