Pieter Alexander Hintjens: 3 December 1962 – 4 October 2016

Pieter Alexander Hintjens 3 December 1962 – 4 October 2016

After a long and painful illness, a battle with cancer over the last six years, my brother has died in Brussels, aged only 53.

My love for him has always been the adoring, muted kind that looked up to the light he shone, that basked in his enthusiasm and tried, and failed, to keep up with the thousand-and-one ideas he gave voice and form to. Many of his passions were beyond my comprehension but very real, nevertheless. As a computer...