While starting my blog in early 2024, I read posts from other
bloggers about AI scraping traffic. I decided back then that I
wanted indexing from search engines but no traffic from AI
scrapers.
January 06, 2026
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.
July 16, 2025
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)
June 02, 2024
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.
March 23, 2024
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.
February 06, 2024
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.
January 26, 2024