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Freshly Baked Thoughts
2023
- Creating Journals That Last
- Herodotus And The Pyramids
- How To Read Herodotus?
- Verify Your Backup Strategy
- Pizza Tower's Soundtrack Is Amazing
- Coping With Loss
- Escape Rooms At Home
- How Long To Beat That Game Boy Cartridge?
- Aggressiveness of Modern Web Advertising
- Streaming Music From Subsonic To Retro Radios
- Favorites of January 2023
- Phomemo Thermal Printing On MacOS
- License To Kill
- Goodbye, ProtonMail
- Michel de Montaigne Was 37 When...
- Fan Sites VS Fandom: A Case Study
- I Published a Blogpost And Then Deleted It
- Terrible Software As A Service Pricing Models
- Capturing Video Output On Nintendo (3)DS Hardware
- December 2022 In Review
2022
- The Downsides of Generalism
- I Joined The DOS Game Club
- Grand Hotel Europa
- 2022 In Music
- 2022 In Books
- My Personal Game Of The Year Awards
- Spying On Chickens At Night
- The Chores Involved In Maintaining a Home
- November 2022 In Review
- Capturing VGA Output From DOS On Windows XP
- Bloggers, Dump Your Twitter Card Tags
- The Jamstack Build Pipeline Reimagined
- The Great Mastodon Influx
- Writing a Tufte-book in Markdown
- Finding Stuff on Big Blogs
- Governmental Infrastructue Website Design Mistakes
- October 2022 In Review
- Is Collecting Physical Games Worth It (Part III)
- Should We Build Our Own Wayback Machines?
- Name Pronunciation And Spelling Mistakes
- A Visual Studio 6.0 Nostalgia Trip
- My Desktop Is Dull Thanks To macOS
- Why Are Software Engineers (Not) Engineers?
- Guilt And Flexible Working Hours
- September 2022 In Review
- Vintage Program Launchers
- The Creative Programmer Early Access Release
- What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?
- Peter Burke's Polymathy
- A Nutri-Score Critique
- August 2022 In Review
- The Toxic Culture of Rejection in Computing Academia
- Thirty-Seven
- Six Months With a Pi-Hole
- So... How Much Do You Earn?
- The (Harsh) Creative Habit
- Do You Rely On Social Reviews?
- GOG Does Not Cater to Vintage Enthusiasts
- Implementing Searching In Static Websites
- July 2022 In Review
- The 2022 Board Game Shelf Analysis
- Better RSS Categories
- A Workflow Interview
- Grading Systems
- Around the World in Search of Chocolate
- Organizing The Board Game Shelf With Tom
- Self-Assessing Creative Problem Solving
- Give Up GitHub!
- The Perfect Bowl Of Oatmeal Porridge
- June 2022 In Review
- Shredder's Revenge's Soundtrack Is Amazing
- Sparking Conversations at Conferences
- From Mood Board To Mood Mugs
- Creating Top x Games Lists Is Hard
- The Modern QR Code Life
- The Strange Heterogenity of Hiking Signs
- May 2022 In Review
- Don't Expose The Stacktrace Please!
- The Life Lessons of Bonnie
- A Decision Tree For Buying Retro Gaming Handhelds
- Teaching Software Engineering Is Still Done Wrong
- Drought
- My Programming Language Odyssey
- On Learning A New (Programming) Language
- How To Properly Store Your Game Boy Cartridges
- On Commuting By Bike
- April 2022 In Review
- Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs
- Fighting Webmention And Pingback Spam
- Equality in Game Credits
- True Backlink Support in Hugo
- The Death Of The Nike+ SportWatch
- Password Hacking Sylvester & Tweety: Breakfast on the Run
- None Of My Best Friends Are Content Creators
- The Analogue Pocket: The Definitive Game Boy Handheld?
- Wax Seals And Snail Mail
- March 2022 In Review
- Creativity Equals Messy Code?
- Academic Lineage
- Leuchtturm Notebook Paper Quality
- Expiry Dates On Journals
- A Personal Intro To Rough Hip-Hop
- A Personal Intro To Gentle Hip-Hop
- Choosing an Audio Codec
- An Ad Leaflet QR Design Mistake
- How To Stream Your Own Music: Reprise
- February 2022 In Review
- Once Upon a Time in Shaolin
- Thoughts On Home NAS Systems
- How to setup Pi-Hole on a Synology NAS
- On Trying To Sell A Laptop
- How To Enjoy Your Own Digital Music
- Visualizing Personal Data Takeouts
- Water Usage and Prices
- My Retrocomputing Projects For 2022
- What a Night Cam Is Good For
- January 2022 In Review
- A Factor Analysis For Dummies in R
- Minimalism and Tidying Up
- Why I Play Games (And So Should You)
- Generating a Blogroll With OPML in Hugo
- Winnie Lim on Rebuilding Oneself
- Re: Writing A Book Is Nonesense
- Natural Gas Prices and The Energy Market
- The Creative Techniques Toolbox
- Dark Age of Camelot in 2022
- Woke in Class
- 2021 Year In Review
- December 2021 In Review
2021
- 2021 Donations
- Migrating from Mailchimp to Listmonk
- Seneca on How to Live
- Technical Knowledge Brews Creativity
- Allspice Is Not All Spice
- The Monthly Retro Screenshot Guessing Quiz
- I'm Joining the Coffeeneuring Challenge of 2021
- A Creative State of Mind
- Why Mastodon Isn't Great For Serendipity
- Three Little GameCube Mods
- November 2021 Meta Post
- From Curiosity To Creativity
- A 5.25" Gobliins 2 Surprise
- From Analog Notebook to Digital Vault
- Exporting Goodreads to Obsidian
- Creative Critical Thinking
- How Not To Do A Remaster
- Where Does It Stop?
- A Treatise on Leavened Waffles
- Constraint-based Creativity
- The Emperor of Lists
- Very Old and Somewhat Old Mood Boards
- Power Usage Effectiveness
- Ever-increasing Work Email Spam
- Ditch Scrum, Organize As You See Fit
- Collective Creativity
- Questionable Game Publishing Methods
- A Triumph For Blogging
- Dear Student
- Are Digital Gardens Blogs?
- The Lost Art of Being Lost
- A Note About Footnotes
- Are You In The System Yet, Sir?
- 20 Years of Personal Cellphone History
- Creativity Self-Assessment Is Nonsense
- Favorite Game Meme
- Parking Machines Design Mistakes
- The HP Sprocket Mini Printer
- Thirty-Six
- Emotional Magic
- On Selling a Self-published Book
- My Kotlin Rose-Tinted Glasses Broke
- Pinball Machines in a Jenever Museum
- Cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese
- Accidental Discovery By Bike: Fietsknooppunten
- Kotlin Is Java 2.0, But It's Still Java
- The Fridge, Your Inoculation Room
- How Much Should I Spend On Magic The Gathering
- Water Levels As Public Data
- Rules of a Creator's Life
- The Decline of Battery Life
- On Tea Prices
- Book Number Fourteen
- What if Seneca wasn't Nero's advisor?
- Double-dipping and Market Prices
- Reducing Workflow Load Facilitates Writing
- Apple's App Store Design Mistake
- Belgium - Portugal: 5 - 2
- Academese Gems
- Flea Market Season
- Misconceptions about retro gamers
- YouTube Play Image Links in Hugo
- Software Engineering Is Not Engineering
- The Pilot Capless: a stellar stealth pen
- Why I like Pawn Stars
- Social Debt in Development Teams
- Moon Logic
- Host your own webmention receiver
- Nineties collecting nostalgia
- On Manuscript Review Procedures
- Re: Is collecting physical games worth it?
- The first Dutch Obsidian meetup
- Stop limiting yourself to JS in browsers
- Exploring the Go programming language
- Discord killed support for WinXP
- Using Hugo to Launch a Gemini Capsule
- Lousy Wordpress Hacking Attempts detected
- Exploring the AlterNet
- Teaching students about coding trends
- Always have a Diaster Recovery Plan
- The IndieWeb Mixed Bag
- Getting rid of trackers using LineageOS
- The insanity of collecting retro games
- How to write academic papers in Markdown
- You Shouldn't Use Spotify
- My Retro Desk/Gaming Setup in 2021
- Win98 Upgrade: GeForce 3 Ti200 vs Riva TNT2
- What is Creativity in Software Engineering?
- The Productive Programmer on Mac
- RSS Feeds, Hugo, and Lazy Image Loading
- Digitizing journals using DEVONthink
2020
- Win98 Upgrade: Sound Blaster Audigy
- The Internet Killed Secrets in Games
- WinXP Upgrade: Sound Blaster X-Fi
- Personal Desktop Screenshots of Olde
- Building a Core2Duo Windows XP Retro PC
- Building an Athlon Windows 98 Retro PC
- A journey through the history of webdesign
- An am486 Performance Analysis
- 486 Upgrade 2: The SD Card HDD
- 486 Upgrade 1: Sound Blaster 16
- Reviving an old 80486 PC
- ITiCSE 2020: A Report
- Project Warlock: About Perseverance
- Combining async with generators in Node 11
- Designing websites with accessibility in mind
- Tracking and privacy concerns on websites
- Page Building with Brizy in Wordpress
- Hugo Extended: More static site processing power!
- Using Pandoc to publish a book
2019
2018
- Productivity Tools on all platforms
- Boeken die mij gevormd hebben tot wie ik ben
- Domain Driven Design in C
- Computer Science learning pathways
- Reverse engineering a curriculum
- Over het introduceren van bedrijfsethiek
- A Ph.D. Thesis Proposal