<excerpt> I love the idea of keeping a bit of ‘now’ going on what I’m doing and what’s happening in my life. See it as a personal limited view about what is going on right now, not what has happened in the past (I need a resume page for that around here)</excerpt>
Thanks for the inspiration Frank Meeuwsen, Derek Sivers and especially Harry Kellert on getting this all started!
Work
- I’m currently working as Product Owner at Diconium. Responsible for (a part of) the weconnect.ID app, this is taking most of my time these days.
- Additionally, coaching as “Team Lead”, of Product Owners and Scrum Masters on the job. I love this part, and I am trying to extend it.
- This always feels more hobby than work, I’m consulting my better half at her company, wattedoeninberlijn.nl – and doing the tech work there.
Personal life
- Recently moved to a nice small village (lived in Berlin for 8 years) little over an hour travelling from the bustling city center. The move has done us well, both for mental and physical reasons.
- I’m engaged for 3 years now, COVID-19 has kept us from getting married
- Trying to cope with COVID-19 as we all do, even though thanks to the move I feel this is my life now, things no longer feel on hold as before.
Hobby
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I do a few things for #WTDIB;
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Keeping a PHP, based on Slim PHP REST API backend going. Connecting:
- Google sheets (as database, no joke
😉 ) - Stripe
- Moneybird
- Sendgrid
- SQLite
- Nodered
- and some other APIs
- Google sheets (as database, no joke
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Building and maintaining a PHP/javascript frontend for people to book the (digital) tours my fiancée is organising (in Dutch) based on
- Plain JS (with jQuery and Lodash splashed around for laziness)
- TailwindCSS
- Mustache
- Stripe
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Doing background analysis, feeding curiosity with
- Sentry
- Segment
- Cypress.io
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I have a big interest in home automation, using NodeRed to have a system that is independent of any single supplier (except Apple for the UI). This system connects the following parts;
- Lights, outlets, and switches using zigbee2mqtt
- IP-based devices from Shelly
- “Some” logic in nodered, enabling pretty much everything automatically
- And everything is, of course, running on one of my Raspberry Pi’s!
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I picked up photography again
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Being currently injured is my biggest ‘pain’, so no running or crossfit for the moment
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Reading up / watching a lot of F1 content recently, since the new season is coming!
Reading
- ‘The expanse’ series
- Waiting for the next Obama book
Gaming
I’m a casual gamer, so I enjoy numerous games but on my ‘currently playing’ list are:
- Cyberpunk 2077 (patch 1.5 is very solid)
- F1 2021 (catching up for the season)
- Minecraft Dungeons (co-op is fun!)
Played recently (not bored with it yet)
- DMC5
- Forza Horizon 5