The next chapter
After wrapping up a longer project, I'm doubling down on side projects.
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Introducing HomeBar for Homey Pro
Frustrated by digging for my phone to close office shades, I built HomeBar: a sleek macOS menubar app for Homey Pro. Control devices, run flows, and track energy, all in one click.
Free stuff I built the past few weeks
A dev log of 6 "scratch-your-own-itch" tools: 4 macOS menu bar apps for pixel art, port tracking, and Git reminders, plus 2 CLI tools.
Creating a Minecraft clone in under a day
Last week, I built a multiplayer Minecraft-like game with my 8-year-old daughter. Not in months. Not in weeks. In under a day.
I built my own blogging software
This blog now runs on an experimental CMS I built myself with the help of AI agents. After years of hopping between platforms like Ghost, I wondered how far I could get by building my own—purely for the love of making things.
Daily Home Alone
Hoe ik mijn fiets gehackt heb
Beginnersgids Conor Oberst
Tickets scoren: enkele makkelijke hacks
Irene, of hoe ik een virtuele versie van mezelf creëerde
Studio.Fuckhedz #1
Medium suckt, hoera ik ben opnieuw beginnen schrijven
Studio.Fuckhedz #2
Studio.Fuckhedz #3
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Quarantijden
Quarantijden II
Studio.Fuckhedz #5
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Street Viewer Pro 6
Studio.Fuckhedz #7
Studio.Fuckhedz #8
Studio.Fuckhedz #9
De beste VR games en apps op de Oculus Quest
Quarantijden III
Coden op een iPad Pro
Studio.Fuckhedz #10
Quarantijden IV
Studio.Fuckhedz #11
txt.edit, de ontbrekende teksteditor voor iPad en iPhone
Studio.Fuckhedz #12
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Mijn eerste indruk van iOS 14
Dood aan alle trackers
Fortnite vs. Apple en Google: in mensentaal
Review: Roborock S6 MAXV - our robot friend
Review: Roborock S6 MAXV - een lange naam voor een fijne robotvriend
Telegate van Telenet kapot
Hip hip hoera: 15 jaar Wannabes
Hoe ik van de traphal een nachtclub maakte
How I turned our stairwell into a nightclub
My home network
Ons thuisnetwerk
Statistieken zonder cookies: Fathom en Plausible Analytics
AirPlay op oude Sonos speakers en Chromecasts met AirConnect
A house full of sensors with ESPHome
Hang je huis vol sensors met ESPHome
About giraffes, pandemics, and video games
Over giraffen, pandemieën en videogames
Een digitale dobbelsteen maken met een M5Core
Creating a digital dice with an M5Core
Home Assistant, de smart home lijm in huis
Home Assistant: turning your home into a smart home
Review: Roborock H6 - een goedkoper alternatief voor Dyson
Review: Roborock H6 - a cheaper alternative to Dyson
Creating a native Next.js app with Capacitor
Bouw eens een 3D-printer: de Prusa i3 MK3s+
Building a 3D printer: the Prusa i3 MK3S+
OctoPrint: spierballen voor je 3D-printer
OctoPrint: extra muscles for your 3D printer
Review: my first week with AirPods Max
Review: een week met de Airpods Max
Adding a copyright notice to an Apollo GraphQL API
Dolby Atmos op Apple Music
Troubleshooting the Prusa MMU2S
Get HyperPixel 4.0 working horizontally for Octodash
Only one Airpod playing sound?
Project MiSTer: de ultieme retromachine
My 2022 (mostly frontend) programming stack
Back to WordPress(.com)
I'm starting at Automattic
Ik ga werken bij Automattic
I ❤️ HomePod Mini
Best Kept Secret 2022
I created a small Google Chrome extension
Arc: redefining the web browser
My home office setup, a quick tour
Weekly linkdump (week 30)
👋 VRT.
Weekly linkdump (week 31)
Weekly linkdump (week 32)
Weekly linkdump (week 33)
Weekly linkdump (week 34)
Weekly linkdump (week 35)
Link dump - week 36
Link dump - week 37
Fixing "The chromium binary is not available for arm64"
Link dump - week 38
Link dump - week 39
Link dump - week 40
What we owe the future
Link dump: softporn, the secret of life & much more
The iPhone 14 Pro camera is out of this world
Tech Time: 👋 Notion, hello Obsidian
Tech time: Doom & Next.js 13
On Twitter
The light parade
Studio.Fuckhedz #13
On virtual reality & the PlayStation VR2
This band photo doesn't exist
My 2023 programming stack
My 2023 Mac apps & utilities
WordPress turns 20
sudo with Touch ID
Fancy in-wall panels using NSPanel, ESPHome and HomeAssistant
Adding a network share to Finder's favourites
Vision Pro
Some thoughts on Vision Pro.
Our home network, 2024 edition
In our recent home renovation, we seized the opportunity to overhaul our network, waving goodbye to Telenet and welcoming Proximus's fiber optic solution, boasting speeds up to 8.5 Gbps.
The Bambu Lab X1C
Ever since the Bambu Lab X1C landed on my workbench, its blistering speed and razor-sharp precision have turbocharged my projects.
Eighteen months at Automattic — farewell team Apex
Always Open With in Finder
Studio.Fuckhedz #14
Secret Life
Leo games (Dutch)
Eindelijk! De Milka Leo games in de browser!
Upgrading Home Assistant Yellow's Zigbee2MQTT from EZSP to Ember
A step by step guide on how to upgrade EZSP to Ember in Zigbee2MQTT.
The Eras Tour *****
There's this thing about perfection. It can look obvious, almost effortless, because it's too easy to overlook that perfection didn't happen overnight. Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour is a shining example of this.
Jane's Addiction ****
After 22 years, I finally got to see Jane's Addiction again. Wow.
👋 Farewell Automattic
After 2 years, I've left my job to seek new challenges. Grateful for the experience, and excited for what's next. Time to recharge and explore new opportunities.
Freedom Week #1
Week 1 of me not having a job has almost finished, and it was great 🎇
Freedom Week #2
This week saw progress on two side projects - the Endgame iOS app, and Lijsje built with Laravel - alongside personal activities like enjoying new music, family time, and anticipating family game night.
Freedom Week 3
Three weeks into my post-Automattic journey, life has settled into an engaging rhythm of family time and personal projects. Between visiting illusion museums with the kids and putting the finishing touches on my app Endgame I'm finding a new balance
Life After Automattic: Week 4
A lighter update during Autumn break as I juggle family time, a cold, and some progress on Lijsje and Endgame—though Apple's developer account system is testing my patience.
My 2024 programming stack
Last year, I chronicled my tech stack journey - from languages to frameworks to tools, diving deep into what made my developer life tick. Now, a year wiser (and maybe a bit more cynical about free tiers), it's time for my 2024 update.
Life after Automattic: Week 5
Life after severance: wrestling with Apple support, growing my apps, and letting AI help build new ones - plus a vinyl shelf rescue.
Life after Automattic: Week 6
Embracing chaos. This week: building a product finder for Lijsje, battling Apple's bureaucracy, and exploring AI code editors.
Life after Automattic: Week 7
I finally regained access to my Apple Developer account after weeks of bureaucracy - Endgame is ready to launch. Meanwhile, Lijsje's product browser is seeing little usage.
Life after Automattic: Week 8
Released Endgame 1.1 with home screen widgets, saw Lijsje growing to 60+ lists daily, took a break to explore Antwerp's sewers, and remembered what sabbaticals are about.
Life after Automattic: Week 9
A weekly sabbatical update covering Lijsje's new sublist feature, Endgame's quiet Product Hunt launch, and a fun pixel art side-project for displaying album covers.
Life after Automattic: week 10 & 11
Missed last week's update since I've been busy polishing my projects. Added PostHog analytics and dark mode to Lijsje, made light-up tiaras for the neighborhood parade, and caught an amazing Vampire Weekend show. Taking it slow for the holidays!
Life at/after Automattic
The final part of my post-Automattic series, where I look back at my final months there.
Launching Titans of Industry
After several unfinished attempts, I finally launched my professional site - a modern take on DOS aesthetics.
Table Champion: creating and submitting an app in less than 20 hours
App speed build, but make it real: Expo + Redux + Gluestack UI + careful AI usage = 20 hours from 'dad these flashcards suck' to 'it's live in both stores' 😺
Playing around with the DeskHog
Playing around with the first hardware product from PostHog.
"We are fucked" and some other half-assed thoughts on AI and coding
I thought AI would take my job. Instead, it gave me a second brain and made me love programming all over again.
We are f*****, the presentation
I gave a lecture at PXL. These are my slides.
Lijsje v2.0: bigger, better, and coming to town 🎅
Lijsje 2.0 is here. What started as a forgotten side project turned into a full rebuild with Bol.com search, multiplayer features and Secret Santa. A simple Sinterklaas request brought it back to life.
Table Champion v2.0: a much-needed glow up
Table Champion 2.0 is here. A complete redesign, new game modes, smarter UX, background music, a new mascot, and lots of under-the-hood improvements.
Are we starving the tools we depend on?
I love AI's speed, but it’s hurting the open-source tools we rely on. Tailwind CSS is struggling because LLMs bypass their docs, killing the traffic they need to survive. If we don't support these creators, the giants we stand on will crumble. It's time to pay for what we use.