Yesterday disaster decided to strike and lucky me, it chose me to be struck. Let me take you through the events. I finished my work day drove home and had some dinner, during which I decided to read a book on my tablet. Whilst enjoying my food and book, an e-Mail notification popped up. My […]
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The no headache Linux distribution
In December 2021 my trusty old thinkpad blew up its battery and left me without a good mobile computing option, due to availability and also a bit of curiosity I opted for a MacBook Air with the M1 Arm processor. Up until this point I was a Linux only user and kept moving between Ubuntu […]
The thing about me and cars
I am a car guy, always have been, always will be. I don’t know what exactly it is about cars, that gets me so excited about them, but since I can remember, I always was into cars. In my room at my parents house there still is a puzzle hanging on the wall, I built […]
The 2018 Nissan Leaf 40kWh (Acenta)
I have had the pleasure to drive the 2018 Nissan Leaf for a week by now, which by my standards comes down to about 1000km of driving it and it will be my pleasure to write about my experience so far. The car itself First up, this is my new company car, aka my daily […]
Flutter, Day 02
Dear diary,today I resumed my journey into Flutter and like every good story, this one starts with a disaster. Not a Flutter related one, but I am getting ahead of myself. I started like on any other day of developing, good coffee, plug my MacBook Air into my external monitor and open up VS-Code. Quickly […]
Flutter, Day 01
Dear diary, today I started to get into developing with flutter. Why you ask? Well, the promise of this language is, it will compile on just about any system you can imagine, deploy to Android, iOS, Linux, Mac, Web and Windows with just one code basis. Sounds good right? How it went? I landed flat […]
The zombie apocalypse is already here
Let’s start with the basics, what actually is a zombie? Originally it referred to a dead person brought back to life by means of magic or voodoo. That person had no will of its own and was controlled by its master, the person brining it back to life. In current movies zombies are mostly living […]
My workflow changed (Partially)
I am not sure when this started happening, but I while back I could not live at the office without having at least three monitors to work on, one for mail, one for coding and one for server connections, testing and debugging. I gradually reduced that to two. Also, when multiple workspaces were an option, […]
The “Far out” Apple Event
I don’t usually care much about these Apple events, but the “Far Out” event of September 7th, 2022 is one I did actually watch after it was held and I saw the new devices. A couple of years back, Apple called themselves courages for removing the headphone jack from their phones, so they could sell […]
Why I don’t miss mainstream social media
There are so many social media platforms out there, facebook, twitter, whatsapp, instagram, tiktok, and youtube for example. It’s kind of hard to remember them all. Did I miss one? Plenty actually, but more on that later. My main experience with most of these wasn’t something I’d care to repeat. And that is not the […]