Netherlands and more

It’s always nice to get a Tesla for your birthday.

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As soon as you turn into a freelancer (also known as zzp’er in the Netherlands), you’re free to choose the transportation method for commuting. Which I consider one of the benefits of being a freelancer.

So you can choose to walk, cycle, drive etc.—or to use public transport.

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For those interested in static website generation using the world’s fastest tool, Hugo — I will be giving a presentation followed by a workshop at Eonics HQ on 21 November.

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Do you love Paris as much as we do?

ActieVanDeDag has partnered with Thalys to offer train tickets from the Netherlands to Paris, for the period 12 November 2019 until 20 January 2020, for only € 29 one way or € 58 for a round-trip.

The action is active until 20 October, but the tickets get sold out at the speed of light, so hurry up! The sale link is under the cut.

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Joining the mass sustainability hysteria spree, I’d like to put my two cents into the future of my and others’ grandchildren.

Many interactions with Dutch institutions result in a filled-in and signed document that needs to be emailed or uploaded.

Or another example: you visit Russian Post where you’re requested to fill out 117 copies of a certain form. Do not give in to the provocation and do not fill it in by hand!

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After a few months with Hugo I believe I’ve worked out some practices one might find useful.

In this post I’d like to introduce a shortcode I’m using a lot in my posts: imgfig.

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I’d like to start filling my newborn Glossary with the term gemeente.

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It recently occurred to me that it would be convenient to have a dedicated section that lists the most common Dutch terms. Each term could then provide a brief explanation and references to relevant blog posts, and be linked to.

Thus there is the Glossary section now.

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It’s time to fulfil my promise and publish a review of my “inflatable treasure”, which perhaps can better be described as the Xiaomi Mijia Electric Pump.

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My abbreviation dictionary afk.best has received an option for searching abbreviations only (and not all available fields).

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Exactly three years ago, on October 1^st, 2016, Yktoo Solutions was born.

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Preface

I’ve been using my Linksys E4200 router for about eight years and was quite happy with its very robust operation. However, any hardware is destined to get outdated over time.

Firstly, as soon as we’d moved from our former apartment into a three-storey house it became evident the Wi-Fi coverage was suboptimal. In some remote corner you’d sometimes hardly get any connection at all. Secondly, it didn’t support modern IEEE standards such as 802.11ac, which was also hurting the bandwidth.

Thus eventually I’ve decided to go for a mesh Wi-Fi system.

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