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I liked reading Butter by Asako Yuzuki. A fascinating mix of murder mystery, food writing and a critical look at society. It took some time to complete reading it, but absolutely enjoyed it.
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Digital Sovereignty at home
While a lot of companies (especially in Europe) are looking into digital sovereignty, to become less dependent on US companies, there is also a trend with individual people that have had it with the enshittification of a lot of platforms, and are looking for smaller, local companies that are not add-driven. This are my personal steps so far: Email from Gmail to Proton Music from Spotify to Qobuz Whatsapp - partly moved to Signal Continue reading →
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Roon & Qobuz
Combining better sound quality on my new setup (NAD C700v2 streamer & DALI Opticon 2 mk2 speakers) with getting rid of shitty companies, I installed a Roon Rock on a Intel NUC server and started with Qobuz. Was great to do the installation, and the sound quality is amazing. Continue reading →
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December 2025 The Fenix museum in Rotterdam is a must see when in Rotterdam. A museum in a beautiful building with impressive art & stories about immigration #rotterdam #fenix #museum
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November 2025 The art depot of the museum Boijmans van Beuningen is a stunning building with an impressive interior and collection.
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October 2025 Some impressions from a streetart walk in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I walked 18km and came across so many works, many of them I hadn’t seen before #streetart #Rotterdam youtu.be/9_h0yX6FH…
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June 2025 Cycling in Berlin
Last holiday we went cycling in Germany. We noticed Berlin is a great city for cycling. We could take our bikes on the train from the campsite to the centre. And so many bike lanes, an absolute pleasure
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June 2025 Baking naan
Home made naan breads being baked in the pizza oven Made this bread with the ‘5 minute Naan’ recipe from Indian Kitchen by Maunika Gowardhan
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June 2025 White Asparagus pickles
The season for white asparagus is short. A good reason to pickle them to eat later in the year.
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May 2025 Yesterday at a restaurant we had a dish of duck with jellyfish. I liked the dish, and even though the jelly fish does not have a lot of taste, it definitely adds to the mouthfeel of the dish. So today I picked up a bag of jellyfish in the Asian food shop to try and create a dish with it…
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Based in Rotterdam, one of my favourite roasters “Man Met Bril” opens a coffee hotel www.baristamagazine.com/the-world…
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6 Feb 2025 It takes 32 minutes and two pans, but it can be done at home: scientists crack what they say is the perfect way to boil an egg www.theguardian.com/science/2…
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20 Jan 2025 Blue Monday news: while we are on our way to the first trillionaires the number of people living under te poverty line has barely changed since 1990. www.theguardian.com/news/2025…
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2 Jan 2025 Made another mixtape video with #DJStudio & #Kinemaster This time with songs & facts from 1990 www.youtube.com/watch
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31 Dec 2024 Wow! I am Tim, the Netflix documentary about Avicii that premiered today is really impressive. www.netflix.com/nl-en/tit…
