Latest blog posts
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Endless - A dive into a C64 game
Date: 07 Mar 2025
Tags: [ c64, game, 6502, assembly ]
Almost 40 years ago, in 1985, a game was released for the Commodore 64 called “Eindeloos” (“Endless”, in dutch). In this game you needed to find your way around a labyrinth while avoiding all kind of enemies and obstacles. The map was so huge, that it was almost impossible to finish the game. It truly was endless for most players.
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I'm still fed up and a browser is coming along fine
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
Three months ago, I wrote a small story about being fed up with things and trying to do something about it. Three months in, we’ve got a small community sharing the same goal: let’s try writing a browser.
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I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser
Tags: [ rust, programming, browsers ]
This blogpost starts with me switching of my car radio, and ends with me writing a browser. There is some stuff in between as well.
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A list of 100 opinions I hold
Tags: [ opinion ]
“That’s just like, your opinion, man” - the dude
Here’s a list of 100 opinions I hold. These are opinions, not hard facts or truths. There will be many people disagreeing with some of them, maybe even most of them, and there will be very few that will agree with all of them.
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A comprehensive list of failed projects
Tags: [ projects ]
I’m full of ideas. Most of them are stupid, though. But sometimes, some of these ideas get stuck in my head like an itch I must scratch, and voila: a new side-project is born.
I don’t start projects with a direct goal. Sometimes it’s just to figure out: “how hard could it be” (hint: always), or sometimes: I could get rich with this (hint: never).
Even though I’m making a good amount of money as a freelance consultant, I would love to have a project that I love to work on, which generates money even when I’m not working on it directly. As a freelancer, I can only bill for the hours I make, and typing twice as fast doesn’t reflect in getting paid twice as much.
Because I make good money, I also have the opportunity to take a few months off in a year and focus full time on my side projects. For me, this is also a perfect way to wind down after hectic months of working against deadlines, so it helps me destress, feeds my curiosity, allows me to use new untapped technologies, and maybe make a bit of money.
If we talk about the first few reasons: all my projects succeed, whether I finish them, get bored with them, or find they are not feasible to keep alive. However, making money is much harder to achieve, yet
it is becoming the main reason I want to start a new project.
Date: 07 Mar 2025