Writings

It’s time to take an indefinite break from my Dutch language classes. I have been following Dutch courses since the end of October last year. That is almost eight months. Non stop. Well, I did stop for one to two week breaks between courses, but that was only because of the dates at which the courses started.

Time flies and now it’s June that is coming to an end. This was the first month, or at least first weeks, of summer. Despite all the rain and the mild weather that we’ve been having here in the Netherlands, it reached 30°C last week. A bit too warm if you ask me, especially when it comes to how houses are not prepared to deal with heat.

Over a bit more than a year ago, I started going to the gym. Since then, I went from going there one time a week, to two times a week, and more recently to three times a week. During this time, many things have changed, from my goals, progress, and how I feel about sports and being active in general.

A few months ago I wrote about the struggles I was having with Bosch’s eBike Flow app and their FIT files. Since then, I have been using my script to clean up the files and later import with HealthFit. I have now just found a better solution though.

Welkom bij de zevende deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. In deze serie schrijf ik een beetje over mijn leven in het Nederlands. Vandaag gaan we het over mei en een beetje van het begin van juni hebben.

May is coming to an end. Not that much happened this month, but it was still minimally eventful. I made a few updates to this website, there’s some life-related changes and updates regarding my gym journey. Let’s dive into it!

Four years ago, I wrote a post about bringing back the web of the 90s, which is somewhat ironic since I don’t remember the web of the 90s. Therefore, I’m probably not the best to write that. Anyways, I introduced my guestbook on that same day. Today I want to talk a bit about avoiding all the inevitable spam that I get there.

Welkom bij de zesde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. In deze serie probeer ik om een beetje over mijn leven in het Nederlands te schrijven. Vandaag wil ik over examens, boeken en Eurovisie hebben.

After almost 7 years working on projects surrounding IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System, I am now saying goodbye. It’s been an incredible journey at Protocol Labs, and more recently at the Interplanetary Shipyard. However, I feel like it’s finally time for a change for me.

April is now in the past, albeit with some consequences for the future. In comparison with previous months, it wasn’t very eventful and that is maybe a consequence of how much I read this month. I didn’t really have a lot of time for other things. Let’s take a look.

The maximum temperature today - which means now - is around 24C and clear skies ☀️. I just got the not so unexpected urge to write something about biking. I say unexpected because I am back from a 40km ride from Eindhoven, to Oirschot, through Middelbeers and back.

Welkom bij de vijfde deel van deze serie: vergeet niet om in te checken. Vandaag ga ik een beetje praten over mijn nieuwe en toekomstige Nederlandse lessen, Nederlands schrijven, en ietsjes anders.

March had quite a lot of highlights for me, despite the bike shituation. Let’s take a look and recap what has happened the past month. I always have to go through my calendar and check stuff for these posts!

At the beginning of last month, someone tried to steal my bike. They almost managed to cut through the chain lock completely. This leads me to believe that they were probably caught by someone and stopped. I went to the bike shop and bought a much better chain lock made of different materials that are resistent to this type of cutting.

Changing phone number within the same country is hard. But it is definitely not as hard as when changing to a foreign number. If you’ve ever moved abroad or live abroad, and wanted to mostly ditch your previous phone number, you know what I am talking about.