Now
02024-05-22
- Bought a Fairphone 5 to replace my iPhone SE 2020 which my son will soon get. The Fairphone is a repairable phone made from as many ethically sourced and recycled materials as possible. The phone works great and feels like a piece of quality. Android seems to work just as well as iOS these days, the switch was easier than expected. This phone will be supported for at least 8 years which is great!
- Books: Read Morele Ambitie (Moral Ambition) by Rutger Bregman. While I liked The Good Ancestor by Roman Krznaric better, it’s still a worthy read, even if just for the big amount of inspiring historic events described.
- Been thinking a bit lately about combining the wisdom from The Good Ancestor, Moral Ambition, The Doughnut Economy, Radical Candor, Stoic lessons and more in some kind of moral / idealistic entrepeneurship. Just thinking about it, for now…
- Work: Busy setting up collaborations with quite a few organisations to integrate cyber security and cyber resillience in our curriculum.
- Re-started with survival running at Overcoming Obstacles since my wrist finally seems to comply again. Yay!
02024-01-12
Came to the conclusion that Hugo offers way nicer functionality (RSS, tags, autogenerated listings and so on) than my own static site generator, and that I was rebuilding Hugo myself which seemed pointless.
I’ve reinstated my site using Hugo therefore.
While there I also rearranged the sections, so I broke all URI’s in the process. Sorry.
I did make a custom 404 page which lists an index of all content so visitors will be able to find what they were looking for.
02023-12-22
Whoops. The Now content was a bit stale. The past few months have had a few themes:
Photography
I’ve started with photography again, doing a course at Centrum voor de Fotografie. Every week a few photographers come together and show eachother their work. Inspiring and fun.
A first new series is Litterland, revolving around the contrast between litter and nature.
I’m currently working on a series around Mastenbroek.
(re)organizing my work
A few moments work seemed to overflow my organisation system. I felt it didn’t scale good enough. Tweaked it, and it now seems to work better. Most important influences still seem to be The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and David Allen’s Getting Things Done.
In 2021 I wrote about Grip op mijn werk in het onderwijs (in dutch) but my system now has quite a few updates. Some day I’ll write it all down again.
Technical
While I’d made a C version of a static site generator for this site, a few weeks ago I felt like trying Golang. In two days I had a generator which generates pages in parallel with an included development server. Going to build it out and release the code.
Since I’m back into photography again, I wanted to have a slideshow viewer on this site. Didn’t like the code for existing options (most of them are using quite old code), so wrote my own. Plan is to release it when I feel it’s complete. Current code is used on the Litterland gallery.
Wrist recovery
While my wrist seems to have grown together again and I can do normal things, recovery is not quite done yet. Push-ups still are out of reach, and turning my wrist to the edges of the joints feels quite painful.
02023-08-10
Three weeks ago I broke my wrist. It was two days before the holidays started. I was planning on doing a lot of sportive activities, but improbability had other plans. Reshifted focus towards more technical projects and reading.
- Learning C by building a static site generator. I’m also working through Jens Gustedt’s book Modern C. Code at Codeberg.
- Hacker News mentioned 100 Rabbits, an artist collective creating lots of cool stuff like Uxn. They also consume as little resources as possible. All in all, a hugely inspiring duo. I’m planning on working through Compudanza’s introduction to Uxn book.
- Came across the concept of Permacomputing, and Frugal Computing which far better explains my thoughts on Long Term Software. Lots of links with Uxn as well.
- As for reading non-technical books:
- I’m re-reading Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
- I’m reading Sum by David Eagleman
- I’m reading The Monk and the Philosopher by Mathieu Ricard.
02023-07-28
I’m in the process of rewriting my blog generator in C, learning C in the process.
02023-06-20
Added a description of my webserver setup.
02023-04-15
(Dutch) Ik schreef een brief aan mijn achter-achter-achter-achter-achterkleinkind, geïnspireerd door Roman Krznaric.