📝 Skiing in the 2025-2026 Season
🕰️ 🏷️ #Skiing #Gerlos #Austria #Skiing2026After 6 years, I finally hit the slopes again in Gerlos, Austria. It was a great trip with family and friends and we had lovely weather! ⛰️
📝 Song of the Year: 2025 Edition
🕰️ 🏷️ #music #MelodicHardcore #Swancore #Metalcore #Hardcore #SongOfTheYear #SOTYI've been 'Loving' songs in my Last.fm account for years, including 2025, and I'd figure I'd go through this year's list and pick the 'winner' for Song Of The Year 2025!
📝 Raccoonfooding 🦝
🕰️ 🏷️ #RaccoonFooding #DogFooding #IndieWeb #SoftwareYou've heard of dogfooding, now get ready for..
📝 How to learn HTML from other websites
🕰️ 🏷️ #Development #IndieWeb #HTML #WebDevelopmentViewing source code, using developer tools, and inspecting elements to learn how websites are built.
📝 Webmentions: A short explanation
🕰️ 🏷️ #Webmentions #IndieWebAn explanation of what webmentions are and how they work. A failed attempt at making it not too technical?
📝 Artisanal software for humans
🕰️ 🏷️ #Software #Indie #IndieWeb #OpenSource #Tech #TechnologyCool software things, made by cool folks. The connection between people, art, open-source and technology.
📝 A Monday morning in Capitalism
🕰️ 🏷️ #Capitalism #CommutingCommuting doesn't go as plan, I rawdog my train ride, peer into grey office buildings and contemplate the meaning of life.
📝 The autumn season in the Netherlands
🕰️ 🏷️ #Autumn #IndieWeb #IndieWebCarnival #NetherlandsA blog for the IndieWeb Carnival theme: cycles and fluctuations. What does autumn look like in the Netherlands?
📝 Privacy
🕰️ 🏷️ #Privacy #Parenting #OSINTI try to walk a fine line between sharing my life online and protecting my privacy.
📝 Remembering Glitch: a game for the whimsical
🕰️ 🏷️ #Glitch #MMO #GamingA nostalgic look back at Glitch, the whimsical MMO that captured hearts with its creativity and community spirit.
📝 Decoration madness at the Garden Centre
🕰️ 🏷️ #Decorations #Elst #Intratuin #ChristmasDuring the Kids autumn break, we visited a local garden centre that had gone all out with seasonal decorations.
📝 Autumn walk 🍄
🕰️ 🏷️ #Autumn #Hiking #Mushroom #🍄Finally a bit of a dry spell meant we could go for a nice autumn walk in the woods, just in time for all the new fungi.
📝 Project Millwheat
🕰️ 🏷️ #Millwheat #OpenSource #Go #PBBG #Medieval #GameDevA post about Project Millwheat, an open-source PBBG written in Go.
📝 A short trip to Sicily, Italy
🕰️ 🏷️ #Sicily #Italy #PalermoLooking back at our company retreat in Sicily, Italy from 2017. Team games, mediterranean sun, and a lot of fun!
📝 A day at Meinerswijk, Arnhem
🕰️ 🏷️ #Meinerswijk #Arnhem #Hiking #HistoryA nice sunny Sunday and a bit of a Google Maps session later, we found ourselves at Meinerswijk, a nature reserve in Arnhem.
📝 Blog Migration: What does #BlogMigration mean?
🕰️ 🏷️ #BlogMigrationSpend a few hours migrating blog posts from my old site to this one. This post explains the reasoning.
📝 A weekend in Wuppertal, Germany
🕰️ 🏷️ #Wuppertal #Germany #TravelSpent an impromptu weeked in Wuppertal, Germany. Looking for hills and the unique Schwebebahn.
📝 Song of the Year: 2024 Edition
🕰️ 🏷️ #music #MelodicHardcore #PopPunk #Metalcore #Hardcore #SongOfTheYear #SOTYI've been 'Loving' songs in my Last.fm account for years, including 2024, and I'd figure I'd go through this year's list and pick the 'winner' for Song Of The Year 2024!
📝 I downloaded and published my Instagram archive
🕰️ 🏷️ #instagram #indieweb #photoWith the death of the Instagram API and it coinciding with my move towards the indieweb, I decided to download my Instagram archive and host them on my own site.
📝 Bringing the indieweb!
🕰️ 🏷️ #indiewebMaking my website #indieweb ready. I'm actively developing a publishing system.. yes, hand-rolled 😬
📝 Thoughts on IndieWeb
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #indieweb #BlogMigrationThe death of silos, identity crises and a web presence as a form of self-expression. What is indieweb?
📝 fin: A Trading212 aggregator tool (for Yahoo)
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #OpenSource #go #BlogMigrationfin is a Trading212 CSV utility that aggregates your transactional CSV files into a couple of output formats.
📝 Using Unix pipes with Go
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #go #unix #tutorial #OpenSource #BlogMigrationBuilt your own Unix tool that allows data to be piped via stdin and stdout
📝 Social Media Detox
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #BlogMigrationI took a break from social media for 30 days and here are my thoughts.
📝 My ROI stock portfolio experiment; the results
🕰️ 🏷️ #stocks #personal #roi-stock-portfolio #BlogMigrationMy 1-year experiment, where I invested a 1000 euros has concluded, what are the results?
📝 My ROI stock portfolio experiment; half way there
🕰️ 🏷️ #stocks #personal #roi-stock-portfolio #BlogMigrationMy 1-year experiment, where I buy every month for 10 months, has crossed the halfway mark. How's it going?
📝 YouTube is my TV
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #youtube #BlogMigrationRecently I realized that I'm really using YouTube as if it was my cable TV. I could also clear see the type of content that I'm watching, and it made me think that I've actually built my own TV channel.
📝 My ROI stock portfolio experiment
🕰️ 🏷️ #stocks #personal #roi-stock-portfolio #BlogMigrationAn experimental stock portfolio that's based on stocks that have 25% or higher Return On Investment metrics.
📝 svc; an opinionated Go service framework
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #go #OpenSource #BlogMigrationI wrote a Go service framework that I use for my personal projects.
📝 First month at GitHub
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #personal #BlogMigrationThese are my experiences after completing my first month at GitHub as a Software Engineer!
📝 How many points would you give this story?
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #agile #BlogMigrationI finished what I thought would be a small story the other day. A blogpost about the dangers of pokering story points.
📝 My first open source project
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #OpenSource #BlogMigrationSome lessons learned from my first open source project.
📝 Move to Jekyll
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #BlogMigrationI decided to move my blog to Github Pages, fueled by Jekyll.
📝 Dutch Open Hackathon
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #personal #hackathon #DutchOpenHackathon #BlogMigrationIn september 2014 I attended the first Dutch Open Hackathon and together with an awesome team created working prototype for our travel assistance app!
📝 meter; the HTML5 element
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #web #html #BlogMigrationA progress bar in HTML5 with parameters for min, max, low and high. With some Javascript and CSS you can make them beatiful and animated.
📝 Piwik, a free open-source analytics tool
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #web #analytics #BlogMigrationPiwik is a JavaScript tracking snippet backed by a PHP dashboard and MySQL backend. Installation is really simple and it works out of the box.
📝 Akismet doesn't cut it anymore, utilize Cloudflare against spam
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #Akismet #Cloudflare #BlogMigrationWhen even Akismet can't keep up with the spam, there is another way to not prevent spam comments but bots all together.
📝 Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part III
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #scandinavia-2013 #roadtrip #Norway #Preikestolen #Stord #BlogMigrationIn the summer of 2013, my girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Scandinavia with Norway as our main goal. This was our experience! - Part III
📝 Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part II
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #scandinavia-2013 #roadtrip #Norway #Denmark #Løkken #Mandal #Stavanger #BlogMigrationIn the summer of 2013, my girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Scandinavia with Norway as our main goal. This was our experience! - Part II
📝 Road trip to Scandinavia 2013 - Part I
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #scandinavia-2013 #roadtrip #Norway #Denmark #Sønderborg #Ry #Himmelbjerget #BlogMigrationIn the summer of 2013, my girlfriend and I went on a road trip to Scandinavia with Norway as our main goal. This was our experience! - Part I
📝 SocialSpace at ESTEC in Noordwijk
🕰️ 🏷️ #personal #ESA #Space #Noordwijk #BlogMigrationI went to ESTEC during a Social Tweetup organised by ESA, met awesome people and learned amazing things. This was my experience.
📝 The problem(s) with Open Data
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #OpenData #BlogMigrationBut the open data ecosystem in the Netherlands is just like a retirement home, where one zealous intern occasionally organizes bingo events and turns the place buzzing before it's time for pudding.
📝 My first experience with PagodaBox
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #PaaS #PHP #BlogMigrationPagodaBox is a cloud hosting service that allows you to deploy your PHP applications easily. This post details my first experience with it.
📝 Quickly create an empty stdClass object in PHP
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #php #BlogMigrationFor when you need the scaffolding of an empty PHP class object
📝 Get IP range by CIDR notation
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #php #BlogMigrationCalculate the lowest and highest IP in a range by giving a (incomplete) CIDR notation string in PHP
📝 Perfect separator for Shoutcast 7.html file
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #php #Shoutcast #BlogMigrationIf you use the Shoutcast 7.html trick to get some quick stats about your stream broadcast but are getting some inconsistencies with parsing the comma-separated input you get, try this!
📝 How to programmatically add an IP address to a Shoutcast Reserved IP list in PHP
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #php #Shoutcast #BlogMigrationIf you have a private Shoutcast server you need to add IP addresses to the Reserved IP List (RIP). Find out how to do this automatically in PHP.
📝 array_push_insert: Push new value into array with PHP
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #php #BlogMigrationInsert a value into a specific index of a PHP array
📝 T-Mobile traffic through http://1.2.3.12
🕰️ 🏷️ #tech #BlogMigrationT-Mobile Edge makes all your mobile connections go through a proxy with rather peculiar IP addresses such as 1.2.3.12. Find out why!