Back after popular request, my favorite books I read this year! A decent year for reading, though I don’t have a big list of things I still want to read. If you have any suggestions of good things you’ve read recently, please send them my way!|
Living in Amsterdam without owning a car is very easy—the public transit is excellent, cycling infrastructure is everywhere, and when you really need a car, there’s many car sharing services at your disposal. You can instantly rent a car for minutes, hours, or days right from your phone. It’s more affordable and flexible than owning a car, as long as you don’t need one daily.|
Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems. Two years ago I started looking around for companies in Amsterdam and came across Monumental where I’m now working to automate construction using robots, starting with masonry. And let me tell you: it’s super satisfying to see a physical result like a wall g...|
Last year wasn’t the best for books for me—the first 3 months I didn’t finish any at all. In the end I did read a couple I enjoyed.|
Here’s a bunch of small nix tips, for my own future reference. Everything assumes you’ve enabled nix-command and flakes experimental features.|
I bought an apartment last year and one of the things you immediately start doing is figuring out what you want to change about the place. When I bought it there wasn’t any place to put ceiling lights in the center of the living room—I like a nicely lit place so I knew I wanted to make changes. I got a quote from an electrician for installing potlights, adding switches and wiring it all up but it quickly got in the €1000+ range. Therefore I decided to take matters into my own hands!|
When working with computers it’s easy to get overwhelmed with the complexity of it all. You write some code, run it through a compiler, and execute it on your machine. It seems like magic.|
This year has been one with quite a lot of changes again: I’ve moved to Amsterdam, a city I’ve wanted to live in for a long time. The last couple of years I’ve tried to keep a daily diary, which I keep up with a Shortcut that I run. The shortcut populates a text file with the date and my current location and then I can just start typing.|
Spreadsheet Formulas for Personal Finance| bou.ke
Finding a bug in Chromium| bou.ke