A separate space for the parts that make the technical profile feel like a person — not distractions, but evidence of curiosity, patience, and the kind of attention that transfers back to the work.
Walked the Camino Francés in spring 2026 — Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago, then onward to Fisterra and Muxía. A month-long reset: simple routines, long days, shared meals, and the strange clarity that appears when life fits in one backpack.
Open Camino story →Running my own little corner of the internet from a server in my apartment. Minecraft, this website, and whatever else I'm experimenting with. The opposite of cloud convenience — and that's the appeal.
See the infrastructure projects →Native Dutch, fluent English, B2 French, conversational Portuguese, and beginner attempts at German and Esperanto. The languages aren't the point — paying close attention to how people communicate is.
I taught physics for a while and the instinct hasn't left. I still find a way to explain things — to friends at the bar, to whoever asks at a dinner party, occasionally to a confused homelab visitor.