After the editions from 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024, here is yet another recap blogpost showcasing recent projects and updates you can find online from my hand. This past year and a half has been a bit slower (online) than usual, but there are still some noteworthy things.
Presentations & Sketch Noting
I’ve been on stage at local meetups twice in the past period:
- October 2024: at UtrechtJS I did a presentation about NextJS with a Headless CMS (see slides and the sample app source).
- December 2024 (DomCode + DIJ Digital), and March 2025 (Nimma.codes): a presentation I’m particularly proud of, about The Essential Soft Skills in Tech (see slides).
Here are the Sketch Notes I made for the latter presentation:
In general I did a ton of sketch noting, usually posting them in a thread on Social Media:
- July 2025: Panel Discussion on Signal, Surveillance, and the Future of AI.
- June 2025: Joy of Coding 2025.
- March 2025: Dutch PHP Conference + AppDevCon + WebDevCon.
- February 2025: FOSDEM Day 1 and Day 2.
- December 2024: Tweakers Developer Summit.
Advent of Code
Like most years before, I shared my Advent of Code projects:
- My AoC 2024 solutions in JavaScript. Running them with Bun, for a change.
- The AoC 2024 Survey and its Results, my recurring community contribution, gave another year of insights!
- The AoC Browser Extension got some minor love again this year, and saw a steadily growing number of happy users.
Blog posts
Again I did not write many posts on this blog, but I did write two for my current employer:
- June 2025: a (Dutch) post with a recap from Joy of Coding 2025.
- Juli 2024: a (Dutch) post detailing my and Infi’s view (from back then) on AI and LLM usage.
What’s Next?
Well, to a degree, family will be first for the coming months. Plenty of time to be spent there. Depending on how much time is left I might finally put some work into making Tierdom an actual platform, but we’ll see if I can get to it.
Stay tuned! I’m sure to share the recap of all projects in one or two years from now.