By: Rem Korteweg | Rating: 3/5I remember the whole Brexit debacle vividly. So I'm sad to read that sadly, there was no 4d chess going on, but the overflowing piles of hubris, stupidity, lack of strategic foresight and absolute populist nonsense was exactly as we experienced it. The author makes a good effort of...

By: Alexei Navalny | Rating: 5/5This is a very heavy book. Navalny was never going to save Russia from itself. A system built over hundreds of years, you can't take on by yourself in this manner. But at least he tried. The book is written in a very cheerful manner, which is doubly sad as you see him go down the hole...

By: Artem Chapeye | Rating: 5/5A very thoughtful book. The perspective of the philosopher at war, and the choices he needed to make is incredibly valuable. His writing hits very close to home, as he brings up scenarios and choices that led him to volunteer for the Ukrainian army. Highly recommended reading for...

Over the decades, I've been a fairly loyal customer of my hosting providers. But sometimes something happens that requires me to move. My first real hosting provider for this website was MediaDesign. A small company from Leiden, owned by friends. At some point, they decided to sell the business. Immediately the...

Since I completely reworked this website last year, I have been wondering about how to add some kind of commenting functionality. After a lot of experimenting, I decided it was going to be Mastodon integration. I started out with my default Atom feed. It already aggregates all posts from my gallery, library and...

This year I read 27 books covering a total of 9.237 pages.. Well, as far as the administration goes anyway. I'm missing a few months where my book application didn't exist yet. The best books were the ones by Wolfgang Faust. They are incredibly immersive. The worst books were the Willful Child series. The writing is...

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Oh Amazon. You've finally gone too far. Your horrible business practices have forces me to quit using your services. For years I've been a happy user of eReaders and thus eBooks. For years I did not mind getting them from an evil corporation bent on the destruction of the book selling industry. I used to download...

This year i'm doing things a little different; I'm downsizing the website. Since 2014 I've been dabbling in WordPress. And every year it has become more a stomach ache, and less a tool to make my life better. First there was Gutenberg. Then there was the enormously bloaty way of creating plugins. Then the template...

Let's have a list of the real problems of cybersecurity in the current climate. Because it's probably not what everyone is talking about. Supply chains You think you buy something from this business. But they use several other suppliers. And the code of their software is built using components from public...

While plugins can add valuable functionality to a WordPress website, there are instances where using too many or relying on them exclusively can be detrimental. I've seen many a website with over 20 different plugins installed, with performance to match. This website now runs on the bare minimum of 2 plugins: one...

Since I moved my website to WordPress in 2014, I've been amazed by how slow a stock WordPress website is, and how really, awful they can become if you don't know what you're doing. So here I present you with a list of options to improve the speed of your website. It's good to point out that one of the many problems...