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.
Podcast: Four things that aren’t awesome about “being your own boss” Read More »
On monday , I got a message from my brother Kenny. “They’re making a Halo Series!” . My lack of immediate “I know! I always wanted one, crying-guy-emoji” response must have been a big, red flag. He asked if I wasn’t watching the Xbox Anniversary stream? That’s when I realized I forgot that was happening
Twenty years of Xbox and me Read More »
“What’s a PowerUserGuide.com”? asked the user who doesn’t follow everything I do? What, indeed. This was supposed to be a productive night Today was supposed to be a productive night. I wanted to make some changes to one of my sites. After I swapped out one cookie cutter template for another one, I wanted to
PowerUserGuide.com’s future. Or “I really, really don’t like WordPress.com” Read More »
Editor’s note: I forgot to correctly establish the timeline, and some people wondered about that. I should mention that I moved my website(s) away from them as early as November 2020, before their most recent price hike went into effect. In the previous version of this blog, this blog had a “Recommendations” section. Although there’s
Why I no longer recommend Siteground Read More »
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
Announcing “From App To Zip” Read More »
Hello everyone, I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Steven 4.0. If you have no idea that there were three previous versions of me, that’s all right. The number is a rough estimate of how many “big periods” I went through in my life. To roughly summarize things, these are the release
Friday evening is as good a time as any to migrate your websites. The time had come to move away from SiteGround after being with them for four years. After inventorizing my websites I decided to delete most of them. Most of those website were never updated and some only had only one or two
Adieu, SiteGround! Read More »
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
New (old) home for the blog! Read More »
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
Deconstructing an SMS scam in 4 steps Read More »
People often say that beggars can’t be choosers. Projected on my current job situation, in which I’ve been out of a job for a few months, I suppose that means I should be considering every possible job offer. It’s fair enough to claim that any job is better than no job. However, there are some
Wanted: No more call center position offers (M/F) Read More »