Fijne Sinterklaas!

The German series “Dark” is so good but I’m so confused.

Ouh, is that a Micropub server or a client? Or both?

I’ve been thinking about replacing Miniflux with Aperture + Monocle. I like the idea of using a Microsub client so that I can quickly reply, like or react to any post. The problem is that, unfortunately, aperture insists on not fetching posts for two of the websites I follow… I either write my own Microsub server, or go back to just Miniflux.

Has anyone else encountered this issue with Aperture?

Christmas 🎄 season has started and I already started watching Christmas movies! Last night, I watched Single All The Way which made me cry een beetje!

I wanna scream 💥

The grade of my penultimate exam at TU/e was just released and I passed! I was a bit worried about that one. Now, I’m just waiting for the grades of a report delivered this Sunday and another project delivered over a month ago… After this quartile, I won’t have classes anymore 🤭

This is going to be an intense week! Assuming the week started Sunday, there are 4 deadlines. 2 of them are already delivered. 1 of them is ready to present Wednesday. The other one still needs to be finished and recorded until Thursday. After both of those, I have 4 papers to read. In the meanwhile, there are other work and personal-related deadlines that are worrying me.

A friend of mine is staying with me since last Wednesday. He’s also Portuguese and today he had the most Dutch experience: get completely soaked by rain while biking. Is he ever coming back to this country? 😂

On the past few days, I worked a bit on my IndieAuth implementation. Now, I am both a server and a client and you can log in on my website. There may be some posts that only logged in people can see. Besides, if I shared something with you, it will be visible under the private page.

With this, I also wrote a Go module (hacdias/indieauth) to help anyone that is using to to integrate IndieAuth on their system. 😄

Yes, it does!

Does anyone know if OwnYourSwarm sends Webmentions when we set the visibility to private?

Yup. I’ve been a “eenmanszaak” here for a year and: (1) had to fill a gigantic form on the KvK (Chamber of Commerce) website, (2) go there and sign a form and pay 50 euros for them to pay a paper; (3) pay for a specialised software every month for bookkeeping. Legally, there’s no requirement for my bank account to be separate because as a sole proprietorship, my assets and the company’s are the same.

Now, my Dutch bank made me an ultimatum out of nowhere saying I cannot use my bank account to receive money from businesses and that I need to open a business account and I have 2 weeks to switch. Guess what? Opening a business bank account with them takes up to 2 weeks! Besides that, the taxes website is a different one so I have to fill my own income taxes as a person and then my income taxes as an “eenmanszaak” separately even though there’s no distinction of assets.

In Portugal: go to the tax office website, probably fill something and say submit. Now you can even issue invoices through the tax office website. No need to pay for some random software. And I can keep using my bank account. And the taxes? They’re the same form! I’ve never got asked by the bank why I was receiving payments from the US. Here I already had to explain everything: relations with the other parties, show the bank proof that the entity is legitimate, etc…

Uff…

Edit: the Dutch KvK also publishes your address, phone number and e-mail address online even though you tell them explicitly not to. Thanks to that, I’m always receiving SPAM phone calls from g/w/e companies and even letters! You can find all my details in a few clicks away! For free. LEGALLY.

Uuuh, that’s very cool. I’m also trying to figure out if I can do a similar thing for the Dutch trains. In an idea world, I wouldn’t have to take any action. However, their API does not let you check where I checked-in with my OV-chipkaart I think.