Friday, August 21, 2026

Tol in Zwitserland / Oostenrijk / Frankrijk / Spanje / Italie / Nederland / Bip & Go (Dutch)

Travel + Dutch

Heerlijk toch, vakantie in het buitenland... lekkere snelwegen, een vignetje, beetje tol betalen... Duh.

Even voor mezelf wat zaken op een rijtje zetten...

Monday, August 17, 2026

Elizabeth Bear - Jenny Casey 01 / 02 - Hammered / Scardown

An accidental find, but I like it. This is hard SF, involving a world past the brink of ecological disaster (with many people unaware or actively ignoring it), the US and China in a kind of military impasse, and Canada hiring itself out as the mercenary pool for the whole world.

Sunday, August 16, 2026

Cleaning up Windows shite... Onedrive / Copilot / Startup / Companion Apps / Cloud Content / Adds...

Windows

Let's get rid of OneDrive and CoPilot and streamline some other stuff... Who needs that crap...

Unfortunately, Microsoft may at random decide to reinstall this crapware, or re-enable some of these settings... sigh.

Friday, August 14, 2026

Sneeuwjacht - 3 - Geen Sneeuw, Maar Toch... (Dutch)

Travel + Dutch

Een nieuw jaar, een nieuwe kans 😁

Nog een poging voor de Alpen? Verleden jaar heb ik al een stukje Timmelsjoch en Stelvio gedaan... Hoe zou het zijn om alle (nou ja, alle belangrijke) passen in 1x te rijden? Kan dat eigenlijk wel?

Monday, August 10, 2026

Alexandra Bracken - Passenger 2 - Wayfarer

Audiobook ReviewAlexandra Bracken

This is the sequel to Passenger. It's an interesting read, and the main character appears a bit stronger than before, willing to fight. Her counterpart and love interest ends up with the most important power in these two books, purely by (bad) luck.

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

All-in-One Table v1 - Build Plates, Temperatures, Drying Times, Glue

3D Printing + Plate Lab

Based upon my own experiences, and stuff I gathered on the internet.

Click on the image to open the table.

Note: a wrong Aruco code used may affect bed adhesion!

Monday, August 3, 2026

The Long Road - Part 3 - Drying Cover for the Heating Bed - X1C / P1S / P2S / X2D

3D Printing + The Long Road

I own an AMS-HT, but not all rolls / spools fit. You can, however, also dry your filament inside your printer, using the heated printer bed. It may be slower and less efficient, it looks less sexy and it blocks you from actually using your printer for printing, but hey! It works.

Dan Willis - Arcane Casebook 0 - Dead Letter

Audiobook Review + Dan Willis

Lately I’m encountering a lot of detective / film noir inspired stuff. There’s Sugar on Apple TV, Spider-Noir on… euh… Prime Video? (More about Spider Noir later.) And here’s Dan Willis, who wrote a 10+ series of books, set in an alternative 30’s in the US, where (some) magic works, and dames are still dames.

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Wallpaper - Jonesy

A cat so dangerous, even a Flerken would keep its distance...

Jonesy (aka Jones) is of course the red tabby from Aliens - and one of the real survivors - but what if Jonesy would have encountered an immature, young alien, at the start of the story? In real cat style, that would have been an awfully short movie 🤔😁