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Reflecting on the year 2025

This year I left my home country (the Netherlands), and travelled to Germany and Belgium. I hiked the full length or parts of two long distance trails. Those trails are the Westerbork trail and the...

2025 Running Review

An early morning sweaty run along the Jiangbeizui Riverbank Park in Chongqing, China on July 24, 2025. A comparable environment would be if Miami had a heat wave in the dead of summer and then got ...

My 2025 in review

Steve Jobs once said that “great artists ship”. That’s how I know I’m not a great artist – I haven’t shipped anything of note this year.

Resolutions

From another time.

Movies / TV - Nov & Dec 2025

Last reviews post of the year!! Movies Blade (1998) Watched on 2025-11-10: ★★★ Blade (1998) Even as a Marvel comics fan, I was never particularly interested in Blade as a character, mostly because ...

2025 Year in review

This is my fourth year in review. Looking back at those four years, a lot of things has happened. 2025 feels like a long, but good mountain hike. My thighs are hurting, but view is so worth it! Loo...

Metro Chronicles IV

I Read a Couple of Books in 2025

You should read books too. Turns out they are actually pretty good. In 2025 I covered a lot of ground: Cal Newport, Triathlon training material, Cory Doctorow and a book on solar power.

Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency

Swift Concurrency can feel like a lot of concepts: async/await, Task, actors, MainActor, Sendable, isolation domains. But there's really just one idea at the center of it all: isolation is inherite...

20 public health wins in 2025

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Trying to sneak in one last game review before the year ends! I usually only enjoy beat-em-up games when playing multiplayer/coop, so I was not initially planning to get into Marvel Cosmic Invasion...

2025 in Review

Reflecting on the past and looking ahead to the next.

7 Ways to Master the Balance Between Discipline vs Motivation for Lifelong Success

In the personal development world, one debate never fades: discipline vs motivation. Which one drives real progress? Should we chase bursts of inspiration or rely on the quiet, steady power of habi...

Ignorance is Bliss

"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult). In my vi...

“What Has Happened To the Magic of Doctor Who?” – A Ranking of the Heart

Too Long To Wait, Long Enough To List There was no Doctor Who Christmas special this year – in fact, there’s no new Doctor Who on television (not counting Doctor-less spin-offs) until Christmas 202...

Selective mutism? Situational mutism? No. I am a virtual mute.

Every now and then, whenever I share my experiences with selective mutism online, I’d get DMs on Instagram like “Just a gentle reminder that ‘situational mutism’ is the preferred term in our commun...

Metro Chronicles III

KNX with HTTP API

After a few years of experimenting, I moved forward with a full electrical system rewiring in my house earlier this year, opting for a KNX-based design. One of the aspects I really like about KNX i...

Top 10 Most Read Pieces from 2025

From sublime spheres to hungry cats, a rundown of the ten most read of what we published this year.

2025W51

How uv got so fast — This one hit different because everyone’s been saying “uv is fast because Rust” but the real story is way more interesting. It’s fast because of what it doesn’t do—no legacy .e...