The first part of a new calendar year marks the moment my software development students go on their internships. It's the last semester of their education and the first time they're fully exposed to the real, professional world, outside the safe walls of the school. Exciting and scary at the same time. For me, this...

As a teacher in the world of Software Development, AI is a given. It's something that cannot be ignored. And it's something that provides opportunities as well, both for my students and for myself. Therefore I'm continuously looking for ways to use AI in education. Not as a tool that does things for you without any...

Sometimes when writing a blog post, you need many words and examples to drive your point home. Because without them, nobody would understand. But sometimes, you don't, and you can let the music and its message speak for itself. Like today.

Over the past couple of weeks, I took my first steps into owning more of the media I consume. Like my music, for which I've gone back to buy it in physical form. The grander goal of this is to become less dependent on the "big tech bros", especially those from outside of Europe. While streaming media might be...

Museums are wonderful places. I think it's very cool how artists manage to translate abstract, complex themes into real spaces and objects. As a visitor, you don't require knowledge about the topic to get a sense of the artist's mind, because the layout of the exhibition and its rooms do a lot of the explaining....

This spring I am on vacation in a city I have never visited before. A chance to immerse myself in a different culture, a different pace, during a few days in which nothing is required. And that last part is quite important to me. No alarm clock, no getting up early, no obligations, no chattering colleagues at the...

In this world of endless streaming, we own nothing anymore. Nothing. Our digital music library, so carefully curated over the years, is nothing more than fairy dust blowing somewhere through the cloud. The movies we so dearly love are available to us only as long as they generate enough money or until licensing...

The other day I went to the hairdresser to get my hair back in shape. After the man asked me if I wanted anything to drink (no, I just want you to cut my hair), he began his job. As you do when you're just sitting there with nowhere to go, you start talking with each other about the important things in life, like...

Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies, and more of the like. I've devoured video after video about the topic, which might actually be kind of counterproductive, given that YouTube is one of those big tech...

I've never been much of a classical music fan. As a kid, I always thought it was boring, slow and above all just a big piece of old crap. I could never imagine listening to sounds like that when I had my own great sounds of the 90s. But alas, here we are, twenty-ish years later, after I've discovered a Belgian...

Running is way easier after the first five minutes. Writing only really gets started after the first few sentences have found their way onto the paper. Cooking a meal becomes a meditative pastime when you allow it. You’ll only wake up fully after you get out of bed. Vacuuming the house gets you started with cleaning...

We have a popular end-of-year music list in the Netherlands, called the Top 2000. It's a user-driven list of the best two thousands songs ever made, at least if it was up to the average of the users who listen to the radio station that hosts this list. I was listening to it yesterday and was very to pleased to hear...