known as @hacdias
βοΈ These are my blog posts. Visit the archive for an yearly overview.
Styling my RSS feeds is something that has been on my infinitely long list of things to do on this website. Sometimes I removed it, sometimes I added it back. However, I recently came across Darek Kay’s blog post and decided that it was time to finally style both my RSS feeds, and my sitemap.
Yesterday, I finished reading Ikigai, a book by HΓ©ctor Garcia and Francesc Miralles, which dives into the Japanese concept of the same name, Ikigai (ηγη²ζ). The reasons for buying this book months ago were not exactly because I wanted to read it, but just because it looked and felt nice. But now that I have read it, I think it was a good purchase.
I have been having a few problems with some of the feeds on my feed reader during the past months. Changing the User-Agent has always fixed the error. Now, I came across this article from Open RSS.
This very likely explains all of the issues I have had across the past months. It is very sad that this is happening to such a large amount of users, and I can see that most non-tech people would not even care at all about RSS.
Personally, I also use Cloudflare and I’ve considered many times moving away from it. Unfortunately, I haven’t done that yet. I don’t know if the alternative would be to just use another DNS service, or try to find something more complete for caching purposes, such as Bunny - which I already use for the media.
In a few weeks I will be turning 25 years old. That’s an interesting number: it’s a quarter of a century, and it also feels like a pivotal moment in one’s life: the middle of one’s third decade, now closer to the beginning of the fourth decade than the end of the second decade. Instead of having a mid-life crisis, I decided to reflect a bit on the idea of getting older, but more importantly belonging.
Saturday we participated in a home barista training session at the headquarters of Lucifer Coffee Roasters, here in Eindhoven. That’s also where they roast their beans. I was quite looking forward to it and I’m very glad I joined. It gave us the opportunity to learn more about the world of espresso, and do our first βοΈ cupping.
This is my first time participating in a IndieWeb Carnival. I had seen this name floating around before, but I have never participated. After reading both Manuel Moreale’s and Jan-Luka’s posts, I got interested, especially due to the topic: multilingualism in a global web. This month’s edition is hosted by ZinRicky.
September is now almost gone and we’re diving deeper and deeper into the autumn. Despite a few problems here and there, I think it was quite a nice month, and it’s important to always try seeing things for their positive side, despite that now always being very easy.
I have been using the same two NuPhy keyboards for almost two years, and I’ve also been wanting to write something about them for quite some time. Why not just do it?
Yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time. Well, that’s not true. Let’s rephrase: yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time to actually help me complete a task. A boring tedious task. It did help me complete the task, but I’m still not very convinced on whether it was faster than doing it manually.
Swimming. An activity that can be very relaxing, and, at the same time, straining and very good for your body. Since I was a kid, Iβve always had a complicated relationship with swimming. I enjoy the process of swimming, and I can swim, but as soon as the body of water is deeper than my height, itβs a hard no-go.
Uff, I wanted to write this before the end of August, but I’m still on time. August is over and it’s starting to feel a bit like autumn to me. Quite excited, as it will become a bit colder, hopefully, and it’s also one of my favorite seasons. Very colorful! But now, let’s recap August!
Last weekend - starting on Friday - we went on a small trip to Limburg, the southernmost region of the Netherlands. The initial plan was to bring our bikes and bike to some interesting points in this region. Due to my wrist, we decided it would be better to just walk. I’m so glad we made that decision!
July is coming to an end and the sun is shining. This was a month with quite some events for me, both on the good side of the spectrum, as well as on the bad side of the spectrum. But mostly good. Let’s dive into it!
Vandaag heb ik de uitslag van mijn Staatsexamen Nederlands als tweede taal ontvangen en ik ben geslaagd! Ik heb officieel Nederlands niveau B2. Volgens de ERK (Europees Referentiekader) ben ik nu een “onafhankelijke taalgebruiker”.
Today is the 12th of July. For most people, this date doesn’t say much, but it marks the anniversary of this website, counting from the first ever blog post I wrote here. And… that was ten years ago, in 2014. Yes, gentle reader, this website is now officially a decade old!
