Christmas is often described as the nicest time of the year. For me, it isn’t. This piece explores how obligation, tradition, and neurodivergent nervous systems can turn togetherness into something draining rather than connecting.
Month: December 2025
Proxmox software update
And a sooner-than-expected software update, or rather; a VM update. Today I migrated the three remaining VMs from my office node to my main Proxmox host at home. All three VMs belong together: a PostgreSQL database, a Python development machine, and an Nginx reverse proxy. As I had never migrated VMs before, it sounded like…
And another Proxmox update!
It is now almost a year ago that I started my Proxmox journey. Almost exactly a year ago Microsoft decided to push the infamous Windows 11 update and subsequently wrecking my homeserver in the process. And right now, I have a few more interesting things to talk about. Hardware “Node 3” is almost finished. I…
I accidentally wrote a tool that can clean up years of technical debt
Over the past weeks, I ran into something small but surprisingly persistent: Git submodules that nobody uses anymore, but are still quietly hiding in the codebase. Submodules that: were added years ago, are no longer referenced anywhere, still appear in .gitmodules, confuse developers and clutter builds, and sometimes even pose an attack surface. I looked…
Throwback server rack flitspaal.nu ( 2002 )
In case you didn’t know:I’m the godfather of flitspaal.nu — and later flitspaal.nl. It was a Dutch-only website listing all fixed speed cameras in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The site ran from the early 2000s until 2012, long before smartphones, apps or live navigation alerts were common. This is a picture of the first…