The Perfect Porridge
Introduction I discovered my love for Scotland, especially the Highlands, in 2009 when I first visited. Where I come from it's painfully obvious to even the most casual observer that there's humans al...
Tag: personal
Consumerism and my Relationship with Money
I was inspired to write this by a blog post by Joel. I encourage you to go and read it. Growing up, I didn't care much about consumption. Sure, like every little boy I enjoyed having toys to play with...
Social Dissociation
Have you ever thought or talked about "normies"? If you're reading this, odds aren't bad that you have. We, the technically adept (or at least not completely clueless), often use this term to talk abo...
Please Stop Lying
I hate lies, I hate lying and I dislike liars. I am aware that there's philosophical debate around the issue of whether or not lying is acceptable. There seems to be a social consensus that, to a degr...
On Separating Creator from Creation
This post has been in the making for a long time now. Not so much on paper (metaphorically speaking) but rather in my head. So now the time has come to finally write down my thoughts. They may be mean...
How playing with Duplo led to some recreational maths
{{ math }} This is probably going to be the weirdest blog post I have ever written. If you're up for it, let's do this! I recently played with LEGO Duplo. Yes I am an adult, go figure. While building...
How To: Create a Digital Frame with MagicMirror
I've wanted a digital frame at home for a while now. I'm notoriously bad at organizing pictures, even worse at sorting, printing, arranging or displaying them. So when I found out that digital frames...
Self-Hosting or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cloud
For a few years now, I've hosted a small server at home. Nothing too exciting, I'd say. It all started with a Nextclound instance (see here) and sort of evolved from there. After a while I discovered...
My New Job
I've got a new job. I started working as a developer for a software consulting company last October and wanted to finally take the opportunity to write about it all. My last job didn't end particularl...
Working efficiently with my MacBook Air
I've changed jobs recently so I no longer had access to my trusty ThinkPad T490 running Ubuntu anymore. Instead, I was provided with a brand new MacBook Air. I've got to admit, I've always liked the l...