Kedara.eu by Ruben Verweij
Kedara.eu by Ruben Verweij
Ruben Verweij
My name is Ruben Verweij and this is my personal wiki, digital garden, blog, or, to summarize: personal website. At the moment, I’m writing mostly about the following topics: Personal web (lightweight, fast, personal websites: a.k.a. Indieweb, smallweb), Books (book descriptions and reviews), Travel (going places), Tech (software, hardware and other technology) and Sanskrit (Sanskrit texts and the study of the language). I also keep track of what I’m focused on now. This website is bilingual: currently, 54% of the pages are written in English and 46% of the pages are written in Dutch.
Latest Posts
Now, May 2026: a letter from Scotland! I’ve received a letter all the way from Scotland this week! Let me explain. Some time ago, I was browsing James’ Coffee Blog, as I do quite often. As I was reading Noticing, I noticed (sorry) an...
Falling in love with photography again My new Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957), more information can be found on camera-wiki.org. Recently, I bought a new (to me) camera: a Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957, shown on the...
Much to my own disappointment, I'm not a journal-in-a-notebook-with-a-fountain-pen kind of guy There’s something aesthetically appealing about notebooks and fountain pens. I love the feeling of resting my hands on real paper, of my pen...
Now, April 2026: everything tends to happen at once Why is it, that everything tends to happen all at once? I had the feeling that the past few weeks have been either very quiet, or too busy—like an on/off switch. This may not be...
Playing with FreeBSD What’s all the fuss about FreeBSD? What is it, anyway?, I remember these thoughts going through my head, sometime last year. There were quite a few people posting enthusiastically about FreeBSD on the Fediverse....
Book review: The Greenhollow Duology I’ve read Silver in the Wood and its sequel Drowned Country, written by Emily Tesh. It’s a fantasy romance “duology” set in an old forest: When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious...
Book review: Tiny Moments of Joy I’ve read Tiny Moments of Joy by George Penney. This book is the culmination of the “tiny moments of joy” the author shares online everyday: people watching vignettes that capture moments observed while...
Written in the stars I’m currently reading a book by the Dutch writer and astrophysicist Margot Brouwer, titled Sterrenstof zijn wij (lit. We are stardust). The book’s aim is to combine the worldview of modern physics with Margot’s...
Ten facts about me After all my philosophizing about ego, my ups and downs of the last few months, my thinking about the meaning of life, and most importantly, the dismal events taking place all over the world right now, I figured I...
In Search of Meaning This is my contribution to the Indieweb Carnival of January 2026, which is hosted this month by Jeremiah Lee. The theme chosen by Jeremiah is “The Meaning of Life”. Isn’t it strange, that we rarely think about the...
Now: January 2026 Personal life After nearly two months of intermittent illness in November and December, I’m finally starting to feel a bit better again.1 We had a lot of snow a few weeks ago—which is not that common anymore here, due...
Book reviews in 2025 Happy New Year to you! What better way is there to remember what you’ve read, than by writing book reviews? This was my thinking when I wrote I’d like to be better at book reviews (23-08-2025). As a follow-up and...
Book review: Indian Philosophy by Sue Hamilton I’ve read the book Indian Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton. I was looking for a good reference book on the various traditions of Indian Philosophy. Unfortunately, I’ll...
Personal web finds for November 2025 December already! I was intermittently ill for most of November (and still am, somewhat), but luckily I did manage to read a lot; so I have some great posts to share with you! I’m also really happy...
Cycles and Fluctuations This is my contribution to the Indieweb Carnival of November, which is hosted this month by Alex Sirac. The theme chosen by Alex is “Cycles and Fluctuations”. Each day, we start a new cycle. We wake, get up, are...