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.
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All posts (54)
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. Having used Linux for many years, I was vaguely aware of the idea that BSD is some...
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 new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried...
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 roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand. I was already following her on the Fediverse for...
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 personal search for deeper meaning—a lofty goal, for sure. Although I’m still reading...
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 could really use a small break from all that serious stuff. As luck would have it, 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 most important question we could ask ourselves: “What is the meaning of my life?”...
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 to global warming, as I’m sure you can imagine. Luckily, I had recovered enough...
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 also, as a way to look back at 2025, I figured it’d be nice to list all the books...
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 have to keep searching. I appreciate it’s a very tall ask to summarize Indian...
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 with my new Blogroll page. I hope you’ll be inspired by the blogs I share there...
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