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Yesterday, I chose to stop using my old journal – yes, I’m one onf those people – while there wre still a bunch of pages left into it.My excuse was that I wanted to “start a new chapter”. That symbolic and slightly wasteful gesture was inspired by events that happeend near the end of June. […]

Inspired by a Tweet, I decided to impart some wisdom about running your own company and the less fun parts that no entrepreneur or unsuccesfull business(wo)man will ever tell you about. I recorded the tips in the form of a podcast, so you can listen to it below.

After a lot of deliberating, the time is finally there to announce my latest project. Say hello to From App To Zip, everyone! And while we’re at it, we’re partially retiring Joomla & More. It’s still really early days and the website looks really rudimentary and empty, but that’ll change gradually over time. If you

I am a chronical procrastinator. There, I said it and you read it. That’s why I have been post-phoning finding a new home for this blog for over two years. It really was in need of a new home, though. In the past few years, the hosting company where it was previously hosting has been

This morning, I was woken up at dawn because of an IT emergency. My mother had received a text from the FOD Financiën, telling her she owed them 11,50 for which they’d sent a debt collector. She sort-of-feared that this text message was real but also expected it to be an SMS scam. You can

Earlier today, I sat down to write a blog post about a topic. However, the problem is that I can’t tell you what that topic was. I forgot because of what happened after I sat down. Once I was ready to start writing, I immediately got distracted. My brain kindly informed me that I have

I have an announcement to make, and the title of this post mostly covers what I want to say. But most people will read that title and be confused about a thing or two, so here is a little backstory. Computertaal is a technology blog that is more than a one and a half decade

Car keys? Check. The car itself? Check Fuel card? Check. Office keys? Check. SIM card? Check. Last Friday I dropped off the last of the items from my former employer. After working there for a little more than a decade, we decided to go separate ways. When two humans split up you are always wondering

I am looking at my Twitter feed in Tweetdeck. Tweets fly by, and I try to distill something useful or interesting from the stream of information in the awfully blue client. Somehow, it doesn’t click. Without reading a single tweet, I decide to close the tab, and I start wondering what happened. There was a