Writings

Lembro-me de que, em 2013, li um livro do qual gostei imenso: Enquanto a Cidade Dorme de Álvaro Magalhães. Não me lembro precisamente porquê, mas a história fascinou-me. Como resumo, escrevi a 15 de setembro de 2013 este poema.

These are some quotes I used to have in the walls of my bedroom in 2016. Each quote occupied a full A4 page. At some point, I ended up removing them. Despite still enjoying them, the choice of having them in my bedroom’s walls is dubious.

The title of this post is just a question I added to my impossible list back in September 2022. It has been sitting there since. After making a little cleanup to the page today, I thought: I really want to develop this feeling a bit more, and explain it better, as well as how I feel in this moment regarding my plans for “living abroad”.

I think that most of us that deal with Docker have, at some point, being confronted with the message “no space left on device”. Well, that is what happened to me this morning: I woke up, looked at my phone, and had three alerts since 2am that there was no space left on device. Miniflux was down because PostgreSQL goes automatically into recovery mode, but other that than, everything was still up and running.

Due to all the restructuring that has been happening at work, I am supposedly going to be working at a different company from next Monday on. The team will still be working on the same projects, albeit with more to choose our own direction. This has also given me time to reflect and think about what I want to learn and do next.

Vorige maand besloot ik om een nieuwe serie op deze website te beginnen: vergeet niet om in te checken! Vandaag ga ik nog een beetje meer schrijven over mijn Nederlands leervoortgang en ook over wat is tijdens de vorige maand gebeurt.

A few days ago, I wrote a bit about our filter coffee setup. I also promised I would come back and write a bit about the espresso setup. Here we are! Today I’ll share a bit about our espresso coffee ☕️ setup. There aren’t that many things to note, but it can be interesting.

Until last week, there was an activity at the municipal library where you could make a 3D model of a Christmas tree decoration, and get it 3D printed. I didn’t know about it until my partner, who volunteers there, told me. I went!

One year later, here am I again with my “Year in Popcorn” post. This year, it will look a bit different: there will be less graphics and data. I no longer use Trakt to track movies, only my watches page. And even in Trakt, I have not religiously marked episodes as watched the same day as I watched them.

Doing a quick search on my website yields almost no results for “coffee”. And I find it quite strange that I’ve never talked about coffee here, especially during the past two years. During the past two or three years, I went from basically not drinking any coffee to buying filter coffee equipment, to now owning an espresso machine. Today I want to focus on filter coffee.

Similarly to last year, here am I again to share with you some statistics about my music listening habits. A few weeks ago, I also published my Spotify Wrapped, but since I do not trust it completely, here am I again, with the full data from Last.fm.

Some months ago, I dabbled with the idea of changing from Migadu to a more generic e-mail solution that includes official support for CalDAV and CardDAV. After quite some time procrastinating, I have finally settled on trying out Fastmail.

December is coming to an end, and with it so is 2023. In general, it’s been quite an incredible year, marking my first year post-university, which always brings a lot of changes to one’s life. Allied with living in another country, trying to learn the language, traveling, a lot has happened, and there is a lot to be grateful for.

Around a week ago, I decided to take a look at IRC again, and setup an IRC bouncer. After some search, I settled on going with soju as my IRC bouncer, and gamja as a nice web frontend. Since I use Caddy and Docker in my server, but neither provides a Dockerfile, I thought sharing my setup with the world could be useful.

Vandaag ga ik met iets nieuws op deze website beginnen: een post series in het Nederlands waarin ik over mijn ervaring met leren van het Nederlands schrijf. Vergelijkbaar met mijn “Recently” series, ga ik een post per maand schrijven. Dat is niet te veel, maar ik hoop dat genoeg is om met mijn Nederlands te helpen verbeteren.