While I was on holiday with my in-laws, the lens mount on my mother-in-law’s camera broke. The lens costs around €400 and with only a small part of the plastic mount place broken, I assumed a simple repair was possible.
During new year I went to Ameland, a island part of the Waddeneilanden in the north of the Netherlands. There I visited a museum about the nature of the island and there was an exposition about kite photography from the nature, made by a man called De Vlas starting thirty years ago. link (Dutch)
I've started self-hosting quite some services over the years, stopped with a couple as well. There is something special about doing things yourself, and running your own software and not giving away your data is one part in that. I even enjoy finding new services ready to be self-hosted on pages like awesome self-hosted. There is software for everything these days and at some point I was wondering if it was the best solution.
I'm not that great with spelling and grammar... For my normal work I use LanguageTool to check my texts. LanguageTool supports both English and Dutch, and that is very important to me. With this blog I'm going to be writing quite a bit, and that needs checking. The simple part is that its only English.
This year I got a Pimoroni Enviro Grow for my birthday. As a person who is structured enough to almost never forget to water the plants, my plants tend to live quite long and happy. Although, the problem is almost... I love the fact of gathering data with all kinds of sensors and apps, and most of it I throw out of the door at some point, but not this, I say to myself. Because this is useful.