Latest blog posts
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Posting on the internet freightens me
Date: 16 Apr 2026
Tags: [ posting ]
First of all, please understand that I’m someone who has a clear way of visualizing my thoughts, but struggles to communicate them verbally or through written text like posts. Being Dutch already brings a certain directness or bluntness into the mix, so when I try to be concise, it can sometimes come across as me being an a-hole. Sometimes that’s probably true, but most of the time, it’s not meant that way. It’s something I’ve been struggling with for about 48 trips around the sun. So I’m not trying to paint people in a bad light in this post.
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Date: 07 Mar 2025
Tags: [ c64, game, 6502, assembly ]
Almost 40 years ago, in 1985, a game was released for the Commodore 64 called “Eindeloos” (“Endless”, in dutch). In this game you needed to find your way around a labyrinth while avoiding all kind of enemies and obstacles. The map was so huge, that it was almost impossible to finish the game. It truly was endless for most players.
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
Date: 16 Dec 2023
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
Three months ago, I wrote a small story about being fed up with things and trying to do something about it. Three months in, we’ve got a small community sharing the same goal: let’s try writing a browser.
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
Date: 22 Sep 2023
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.
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A list of 100 opinions I hold
Date: 05 Sep 2022
Tags: [ opinion ]
“That’s just like, your opinion, man” - the dude
Here’s a list of 100 opinions I hold. These are opinions, not hard facts or truths. There will be many people disagreeing with some of them, maybe even most of them, and there will be very few that will agree with all of them.