Favourites of January 2025

It’s still January so hopefully I’m still permitted to put out these kinds of year overview notes from 2024. I did not forget to create the book overview post—I actively avoided doing so, as I haven’t read a lot and didn’t think it would be worth wasting words on. I still don’t, but I want to save the collage for my future self as I stopped...

We have a soft spot for art-induced TV shows, especially if they’re about the exciting discovery of once-lost paintings from famous Dutch Masters. The new Dutch show De Gezonken Meesters (literally: The Sunken Masters) on NPO Max does not fail to deliver in that regard. The premise of De Gezonken Meesters is more than that though: instead of...

Even though I don’t find these kinds of posts very interesting to read, I guess it can’t hurt to quickly raise up to the stupid blog questions challenge—Thanks, Joel. There is nothing shockingly new in here and most other articles about blogging might be of better use to you. Getting “nominated” to participate feels like being obliged to engage...

Two years ago, Ian Scott created the picoGUS card that uses ISA sound card emulation using the RaspPi’s Pico’s microcontroller. My July 2023 post was the first post to mention the card and I’ve had it on my radar ever since. Last summer I received my own copy and tried assembling it into the trusty 80486—except that that didn’t work out well...

2025 will become my personal year of philosophy. I turn forty this year, which, if all goes well, marks the first part of my life as over. Considering recent illnesses along my family and friends, I have little hope of ever reaching eighty, but let’s keep that as a grand goal for the sake of the argument. I’ve been reading more philosophy lately,...