Favourites of August 2025 | Brain Baking
August 2025 was one of those big life-altering and quite stressful months. We welcomed a second baby …| Brain Baking
August 2025 was one of those big life-altering and quite stressful months. We welcomed a second baby …| Brain Baking
My friend Joel finally published his GOAT list. Finally! I’ve only been pushing him for nearly …| Brain Baking
I turned thirty-nine today: the start of the last 365 days of my youth, according to too many people …| Brain Baking
When I turned thirty-nine, I was exhausted because daycare closed all summer and the house …| Brain Baking
Summer music festivals can be a great way to blow off some much needed steam. Unfortunately, sweat …| Brain Baking
It’s been too long since this blog published a meaningless click-bait list article so here you …| Brain Baking
This year, the folks from the Into the Aether video gaming podcast put all their eggs in an older …| Brain Baking
A test drive from a drawing perspective| Brain Baking
I recently came across https://theyseeyourphotos.com/, a hidden ad landing page acting as a small …| Brain Baking
My wife is a big fan of Australia’s biggest export product—no wait, she’d rather …| Brain Baking
Not finding what you're looking for? Browse the archives. 2025 August On Being …| Brain Baking
Sometimes I write blog posts about being ashamed to be a software developer. This is one of them. …| Brain Baking
Having kids means experiencing the flea market season on an entirely different level. Last Saturday …| Brain Baking
It’s August and the weather is getting pretty weird! In the previous monthly overview post, I …| Brain Baking
In academia, a number called the h-index is often used to measure a researcher’s publication …| Brain Baking
A couple of months ago, we welcomed a new virtual pet. It took a while for our not so virtual pets …| Brain Baking
For a very long time I’ve held off consulting Large Language Models besides the odd query out …| Brain Baking
Why do so many board spaces eat up too much precious shelf space? Whatever happened to small, nimble …| Brain Baking
As a slight continuation of the previous Too Many Games, Too Little Time, here’s another …| Brain Baking
Here’s a keen observation: each year, more new stuff gets put out. Bigger, better, bolder! …| Brain Baking
A recent both refreshing and stressing trip to London made me painfully aware of bad technological …| Brain Baking
Time for another design mistake. An upcoming trend: QR codes in physical ad leaflets delivered by …| Brain Baking
Not finding what you're looking for? Browse the archives. 2024 December 2024 In …| Brain Baking
We’re out of olive oil. Again. I don’t know why, but these dark green glass bottles …| Brain Baking
To timely answer the weary what’s for dinner question every single day in a creative matter …| Brain Baking
Not finding what you're looking for? Browse the archives. 2022 December The …| Brain Baking
Follow the handy summary below to achieve eternal contemporary privacy-aware encrypted …| Brain Baking
The summer holidays arrived for those who are lucky enough to have them. Here in Belgium, this week …| Brain Baking
Yes. No. Maybe. Look, it’s complicated… When I started freelancing, I asked around to …| Brain Baking
It took a long time for the Analogue Pocket to finally arrive at our doorstep. I was a few minutes …| Brain Baking
Keith Cirkel has no time to learn React. He asks whether it’s worth it to learn a web …| Brain Baking
Someone at Mastodon recommended Derek Sarno’s YouTube cooking channel as a fun way to learn …| Brain Baking
I’m playing Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown as a nice change of pace in-between the long …| Brain Baking
During my last trip to overbomma (grand-grandmother), I discovered a couple of battered notebooks …| Brain Baking
My websites use both the modern Webmention and conventional Pingback systems to communicate with …| Brain Baking
With the Belgian government changing the way solar panels are (not) financed again, I wondered whether they’re still a worthy investment. Not only an investment but also a way to help reduce the CO2 pollution. Most consumers no doubt will approach solar panels from a financial perspective. That way, it becomes a bit more straightforward to answer the question—but that answer is very likely to change after you’ve made the investment! Let’s try to approach things from a couple of differ...| Brain Baking
Ruben listed his retrocomputing projects for Q1 2022 two days ago, and it seemed like a good way to …| Brain Baking
A peaceful co-existence of old and new| Brain Baking
Four years ago, I pushed the first commit to my little Jamstack utility collection project called …| Brain Baking
There goes another month. An unusual hot one for Belgium as well. It’s just a few more days …| Brain Baking
Since the Lode Runner lost levels appearance, I’ve been thinking about others games I’ve …| Brain Baking
When I was little, I used to always carry with me a special floppy disk containing just one file: …| Brain Baking
In 2023, I scraped data from software developer job ads to discover local trends such as the most …| Brain Baking
I’ve been relying on dishwashing sponges to get that muck off for more than a decade now. The …| Brain Baking
A Classic ISA sound card, including MIDI daughter board!| Brain Baking
Something wonderful and weird happens when I write about x. For example, consider x to be the video …| Brain Baking
This is something that I realized this week after leaving for work but having to turn back because I …| Brain Baking
Gaming from Quake to Quake III: Arena!| Brain Baking
Successfully combining writing and LaTeX skills| Brain Baking
Beyond webmention.io and static site integration| Brain Baking
Thoughts about the (d)evolution of blog interactions| Brain Baking
Is a physical collection really worth it?| Brain Baking
2025 will become my personal year of philosophy. I turn forty this year, which, if all goes well, …| Brain Baking
As I will be switching clients next year, I will also be switching programming languages, from Go …| Brain Baking
This week, Rock Paper Shotgun presented their best games to play on the PC today list or the RPS 100 …| Brain Baking
Remember when I said that if you muddle with vintage hardware mixtures, one thing gets fixed but the …| Brain Baking
It’s been September for a good week now, I know, but you’ll have to forgive me as …| Brain Baking
Two years ago, I initiated a yearly recurring thing called The Board Game Shelf Analysis that …| Brain Baking
Did you know that if you write a lengthy blog post of say a thousand words twice a week for fifty …| Brain Baking
Although the summer vacation has officially begun, it’s still barely visible thanks to a …| Brain Baking
About a month ago, I bought a PicoGUS, an ISA Gravis UltraSound sound card emulator that aims to fit …| Brain Baking
For a Go project we’re working on, the ever-increasing boilerplate code yet again started …| Brain Baking
I miss BSD/Linux. Or was that GNU/Unix, I’m not sure? Silly jokes to get a statistical …| Brain Baking
My Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system has hit a new wall since I started taking notes on my …| Brain Baking
Or should that be invasiveness? Persuasiveness? It’s no longer a distraction, it’s an …| Brain Baking
A few years ago, I encountered Marcus Huderle’s Reverse Engineering Carrot Crazy - Part 1 - …| Brain Baking
It’s been three years since the first desk setup post from 2021, and while a couple of things …| Brain Baking
I came across a weird function in our Go codebase the other day. It was supposed to do just one …| Brain Baking
My first month back in the software engineering industry as an independent software architect is …| Brain Baking
First, I really wanted to leave. Afterwards, I didn’t want to. Then, I was paralyzed and …| Brain Baking
We’ve been keeping track of our household expenses on and off over the past decade—more …| Brain Baking
In one of the buildings at our university campus, a big TV screen next to the staircase tried (in …| Brain Baking
Here’s my 2023 In Books end-of-year list, published on the cusp of the end of something old …| Brain Baking
My email pen pal Jw over at https://so1o.xyz/ asked me how I record screenshots for my vintage …| Brain Baking
Justin Searls over at Test Double gave a talk at RailsConf 2019 that really struck a chord here. I …| Brain Baking
I gave up after yesterday’s quirky A* assignment. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar for …| Brain Baking
It’s that time of the year—the time to publish the yearly notes summarizing playtime …| Brain Baking
Yesterday, the video game DOOM turned thirty. On 10 December 1993, John Carmack, John Romero, Sandy …| Brain Baking
December marks the beginning of the countdown to Christmas, traditionally via Advent calendars. For …| Brain Baking
After Inktober and November’s National Novel Writing Month, this time it’s DOSember, a …| Brain Baking
As I once again find myself staring at local software dev job ads, I can’t help but wonder: …| Brain Baking
Almost every few weeks, a new and exciting retro hardware project is announced. These are truly …| Brain Baking
As I was writing my Evercade gaming device review, I noticed that the battery life of the new …| Brain Baking
A follow-up on the insanity of collecting retro games| Brain Baking
The articles here at Brain Baking end with a footer that contains the author bio and ways to contact …| Brain Baking
Four Podcasts is my upper limit—that’s the remark of a friend while discussing the …| Brain Baking
Everyone’s doing these app defaults lists lately. Since they’re lists and I happen to …| Brain Baking
Something scary dawned to me recently after having peeked into several source code repositories of …| Brain Baking
I’ve had an interesting conversation with Mr Creosote on Mastodon a few months ago that …| Brain Baking
It’s spooky season! Wait, no, again. Spooky season is over! Or are we still in it? For just …| Brain Baking
For decades, I’ve been trained to optimize my thinking in terms of numbers. I’ve been …| Brain Baking
After compiling my top 25 best games of all time list, I started drafting a list of my 25 best …| Brain Baking
A recurring trend among bloggers is meta-blogging: blogging about blogging. My pristine AI …| Brain Baking
After a lengthy regulatory review, Microsoft now officially closes its $69 billion acquisition of …| Brain Baking
That’s a good question! CS1 courses, or Computer Science 1, are typically the first computing …| Brain Baking
My general conclusion after a day of digging through and studying a semi-random pile of academic …| Brain Baking
I know I am. Allow me to explain myself. I’ll be brief: the ratio of weekly new posts in my …| Brain Baking
Edge Magazine put out another ranking, this time the 100 greatest video games of the past 30 years, …| Brain Baking
Our first-year engineering students have been exposed to higher education for a good two weeks now, …| Brain Baking
