Here's an article in English on DutchNews.nl:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/after-record-year-asml-is-t...

See also the statement from ASML (linked to in that article):

https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/strengtheni...

I've been 'designing' websites since about 1994, and I remember being very excited when the major browser(s) started supporting background images, so that my webpages didn't have to have the same flat-grey background that every other webpage in the world had at the time. I also made one of the first 'starfield' backgrounds, and was simultaneously thrilled and annoyed to see other people start using it on their webpages.

Oh, there was a neat way to create a starfield without background images: a dark background and then the content is set in a table with very small cells (where the main content uses colspan and rowspan to get a bigger cell). Some of the small cells can contain stars with transparent gifs. That way, some stars can even blink!

Found an example (though not surrounding content in this case): http://boom.shivas.se/natthimmel/natthimmel.htm

When I was a kid (in upper elementary school, around the same time period), I remember gleefully making star wars web pages with starfield backgrounds and light saber horizontal rules, and I wonder if I used one of yours

How about rotating logo gifs and fancy colorful banners? And applets!

> not the awful hamburger junction solution that the local area is now saddled with...

Do you mean the Canford Bottom Roundabout [1] by any chance? :)

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/rpTJ3aPhsejWcChV8

For what it's worth: you still write very well.

Ah, no. This appears to be the offending content: https://twitter.com/watmay1/status/1622518097067511811

Yeah. A dunk on edgy comedians (wait, where are you all going?) was misunderstood as a dunk on marginalized communities. It's almost as if the AI had a better grasp of nuance than the humans monitoring it did....

10E6 = 10×10⁶ = 10⁷, so you can unpick that nit!

Yep!

I can also highly recommend 3Blue1Brown's treatment of the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY (...which I see now is cited in the video that you link to!)

> Think of a pregnant woman (the Earth) spinning on a seivel chair. The woman gives birth to her child (the Moon) and she takes the child in her arms and extends it at arm's length.

Just in case any of you were thinking of patenting this idea, I'm afraid that someone beat you to it: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en

Just a comment on your second and third paragraphs: it's a bit odd that you invoke general relativity ("curved spacetime") for the Moon's basic orbit, and then discuss classical mechanics ("tidal forces are literal forces") for the second-order effects. Tidal forces are of course also gravitational effects, just differential (i.e., the result of the fact that we are not talking about point masses, but rather extended objects).

shrug I was just trying to help someone develop an intuitive understanding of orbital dynamics. As far as I know, all cows are indeed spherical.

Well, technically ASML is based (as in, headquartered) in Veldhoven, but that's part of the same conurbation really.

Meanwhile, check out the 235 (at last count) technology companies located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven (where NXP is headquartered): https://hightechcampus.com/companies