A couple of weeks ago, I was quite certain that my next phone would be the iPhone 18. Lucky me I didn’t wait for that: Apple didn’t announce a baseline iPhone at all this September and the iPhone 17 even got more expensive. Instead, I decided it was time to jump ship again and, after 6 years with an iPhone, move...

I like a good old rule of thumb. Like the one I came across recently. To quickly figure out if a certain food is an efficient source of protein, use the following formula: Protein (g per 100 g)×10≥Calories (kcal per 100 g) \text{Protein (g per 100 g)} \times 10 \geq \text{Calories (kcal per 100 g)} Protein (g per...

Back in January, I started an experiment⁠ by turning this website into a social media timeline-like experience. But now, we’re back to the roots⁠. I like how each iteration of my personal website tells a different story. It’s a snapshot of how I wanted to represent myself online at the time of creating it. With the...

Sometimes, shit gets real and you really have to work towards a specific goal. The way there is not pleasant though. For purely illustrative purposes1, let’s say you have to prepare for a math exam at uni. The one (and frankly only) thing that always makes sure I reach that goal is the simplest productivity tool...

Imagine you open your inbox one morning, and you are greeted by an email with a ginormous attachment. It contains hundreds of pages of written communications between members of a local theater group. A local theater group where a murder happened, and your boss thinks they arrested the wrong person. You are an...

At the latest since I first played the awesome Mini Metro game, I’ve been interested in metros. Particularly their maps. They sit right at the intersection of urbanism, public transport and graphic design. Three topics I’m passionate about. That’s why I immediately clicked on this video when it got recommended to...

Last Tuesday, I completed my latest PACT: Committing at least once a day to the Morgenblau repo (the RSS reader I’m building) and posting about it over on Bluesky for 30 days. Whilst I’m nowhere near a finished product, I did make significant progress: Moved off TanStack Start to Laravel + React Eventually also...

A simple trick I picked up from the Runna app: If you want to increase your cadence, drive your arms faster. You don’t even have to think about your legs, because they will speed up automatically. Getting out of sync with your faster-moving arms is nearly impossible. I tried this on a recent tempo run and it felt...

Sebastian shared this paragraph in his recent devlog that resonated with me: Focus is the new bottleneck. I kept coming back to this thought all week, and it finally crystallized: code isn’t the barrier anymore. Modern AI tooling lets me build pretty much anything I can clearly describe. The thing that separates...

Since I’m still in the process of developing my own, I currently have to rely on other RSS readers. And from time to time, I switch them. Today was such a day. Normally, what I do is export an OPML file from my old reader and import it into the new one. But in my current reader, I couldn’t find that export option....

A couple of weeks back, I finished my first 30-day PACT. During this time, I wrote and published one post every single day. Whilst I didn't continue with the daily posts, I really enjoyed the momentum it gave me. That's what I want to replicate now, but in another area of my life. In February, I wrote about an...

Today is the last day of my writing PACT where I set out to write and publish a blog post every day for 30 days. I’ve written about various things that were on top of mind: Side projects, sport, personal finance, general life advice that I found useful, replies to blog posts and lately about our new family member....