I am half-way through The Hallmarked Man and I am slowly getting sick of the endless soapy melodrama surrounding the Robin/Strike relationship and all the related clichés. I want to like the book but I can't. I will probably skip the next iteration...

What do vegans serve at Christmas? Serious question

Unusual Saturday activities - shopping for a new kitchen in Gronau, Germany :)

My favourite sailing channel. Another Patagonia video. A work of art.

Very close. Unfortunately. #nflx

I like Zed

Google kills our perfectly working Nest thermostat. Just like that. Like they killed other great services in the past. Another reason to be sceptical about all these smart home features.

Gay marriage is apparently passé 😇

The headline of the day

Pity that Zigmund didn't talk Adolf and Joseph out of their frustrations...

Colman and Cumberbatch are incredible

Get answers to all your questions with Simpsons quotes: tvsimulator.com/says/

Soupe à l'oignon for lunch

J'ai obtenu mon certificat de français B1 avec la mention A (93%). Super!

Coffee

Yes! Please stop DST in Europe

#AWS us-east-1 is back

La Ciotat. France #photography #WeekQforQuiet #AlphabetChallenge

Marina sunset. Port-Napoleon, France. #photography #WeekQforQuiet #AlphabetChallenge

A fisherman. Somewhere. #photography #WeekQforQuiet #AlphabetChallenge

Ah. Confluence is down as well.

No significant #aws issues in Frankfurt and Dublin as far as I can see.

You see, I downgraded from Tahoe and now we get this #aws outage. Coincidence?! I think not! ;)

It looks like Bitbucket Pipelines are affected by the #aws outage as well.

Multiple AWS services in us-east-1 are down. Slack and Shortcut are dead now

Sunday walk

Het Prentenkabinet in Leiden. Lunch

The only thing I miss from macOS26 is the Journal app but it is still available on iOS

Downgraded from Tahoe to Sequoia. Didn't take much time or effort. Everything looks normal and works fast again. Phew... #macOS #tahoe #sequoia

Long wait in a cafe… Boring…

Tahoe Spotlight Search is unusable. These are Spotlight search results on a MacBook full of PDFs.

Apple App Store says that 'these apps look great on macOS Tahoe'. Apparently this selection is more important to Apple than the real-world applications that I use all day long, as they look really terrible.

Slack on Tahoe shows me in 2 huddles at the same time. I cannot quit a huddle without quitting and restarting Slack. What a crock of crap... And I already closed my eyes to ignore the visual mess...

I feel really tempted to downgrade to MacOS Sequoia.

Apologies for Tahoe bashing but I am really getting fed up with all Electron issues in MacOS 26 - I miss Slack call notifications, I call people but there is no response until I hang up etc etc

More surprises in iOS26: apparently I can make a ringtone out of a screenshot :)

Looking at this promo picture, I can bet that this fast-going cruise ship will end up on the shore/rocks within a couple of seconds. And how high are these palm trees?! How did we become so dumb?

Stuffed cabbage for dinner

Pigs will pig #zorgvrij

I tried to cook mushroom risotto vegan way tonight for our guests. It turned out way too dry without butter and parmesan cheese despite my best efforts. The taste was great but the texture was just wrong. Looking for tips :)

Rest in peace…

Look, @nealstephenson.bsky.social is everywhere :) Even in your friendly French language course app

It took us 17 years :) Done!

Disable Liquid Glass in MacOS Tahoe

Three really awesome exhibitions at the Kunsthal Rotterdam: - Cute - Iris van Herpen - Homo mobilis #rainyday

It’s Friday!

The Royal Society of Chemistry of course :) Cambridge, UK

When in England...

Their eyes… Cambridge, UK