Brain Baking

Episode 800 of the Retronauts podcasts released recently, celebrating twenty years of floating around in the podcast-o-sphere.

The shopping centre we find ourselves in also has an IKEA nearby.

Not every video game I pick up manages to hold my attention long enough to reach the credits.

A miserable little pile of secrets.

The other day, a colleague scolded me for being a hypocrite when I mentioned that his Claude Code subscription directly supports fascists in USA.

Here’s an interesting dilemma for you: do you place stickers onto the back of your laptop?

André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis leaves a strange feeling lingering long after I put down the book.

The calendar claims it’s October already but the temperatures are still in denial.

It’s just two days shy of being October, the spookiest month of the year.

During the summer holiday of 2010, I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals.

Yesterday, I had the pleasure to give a talk for the local Kotlin community on creativity in software engineering and the impact generative AI has on our ability to be creative.

Our province, Limburg, is known in Belgium for its cycling-friendly environments.

Yes, this is a blog post about the The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake.

Two months ago I bought another pen—my first new entry in over three years.

I am typing this from the teachers’ lounge: the preparations for the new academic year have officially begun, and with it, the summer holiday is gone.

The modernisation of some of the vintage components in old computers comes with its own set of challenges.

This blog post serves as a not so gentle reminder that I should practice what I preach: when I turned forty, I wrote: Once things settle down, I hope to finally start writing that own philosophical work.

The Red Mailbox next to our village’s primary school is my primary drop-off point for writing letters.

Continuing the letter writing fever, I’ve been exploring the academic work called Letters As Loot by Gijsbert Rutten and Marijke J. van der Wal.

One of the first satisfying things I did this morning was donating a sealed white envelope into a red mailbox.

Four years ago, I wrote a short apology for playing games, targeted specifically towards digital video games.

About a month ago, we could no longer ignore the occasional drip, drip, drip that sounded like it was coming from beyond the bathroom wall.

The summer holiday is halfway.

The yearly recurring thing called the Board Game Shelf Analysis didn’t recur in 2023 and didn’t in 2025.

My latest post on the difficulties of young parenthood has loosened something in the back of my mind.

This is what it feels like.

Let’s start this post off with a quote from myself back in February last year when I let you all peek into my stationary drawers: I keep telling myself I don’t need more but somehow I think I do.

Yes.

Our Lego Duplo blocks are in short supply meaning we’ll have to get creative to assemble, build, and rebuild new things.

The beginning of this month marks the official end of my own company.

For almost ten years now, we’ve sworn by Mariage Frères when it comes to shopping for high quality loose tea leaves.

The button press kit wasn’t the only recently acquired crafting toolkit in our house, but it was the biggest one—except for the Stuffaloon thing to create your own balloons (yeah, I know…).

Last week I arrived home with a delicious pear frangipane pie from the local bakery.

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup well on its way, the Panini sticker fever has been raging through nearby playgrounds and homes alike.

I am not yet done thinking about nostalgia.

Or rather, a lack thereof.

Four years ago, in the article What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?

May was another weird month here in Belgium: the last weeks have been unusually hot.

In Tattoorist, a 2026 Flemish TV show, musician and tattoo artist Tijs Vanneste explores six European capitals through the lens of the tattoo world.

During a discussion in the Retronaut podcast episode on Duke Nukem 3D, the podcast hosts and invitees thought back to the first time they came in contact with the Duke.

In September last year, as part of a series on card games, I wrote about card game mini games in video games.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why more and more local stores are going defunct.

Something terrible almost happened.