Tag: sketch notes

What have you done for me lately? (Aug 2025)

Jeroen

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:

Here are the Sketch Notes I made for the latter presentation:

Sketch notes drawing a path through the terms "Small Talk, Being Evil, Undercover, Inbox Management, Persuasion, 2D List Making, Stress Management, Mentoring, Empathy, Small Talk" into a conclusion "Honing Secondary Skills is Most Effective".

In general I did a ton of sketch noting, usually posting them in a thread on Social Media:

Advent of Code

Like most years before, I shared my Advent of Code projects:

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.

What have you done for me lately? (Feb 2023)

Jeroen

After a few previous editions (January 2019, September 2018, and December 2017) I’m back with another recap of all the things I’ve been doing instead of writing blog posts. Without any ado, let’s dive into stuff I’ve been up to!

Blog posts

Same as last time, although I’ve not been blogging much here on my personal blog (only one post, about my Book List), I have been writing content for my employer’s blog:

Not as many blogposts as previous years, but still a handful!

Advent of Code

The yearly advent calendar of programming puzzles deserves its own section. Three things revolved around this event for me:

Plus I got to craft fresh Egg Nog during Infi’s Meetup around Advent of Code, which is always nice!

Projects

Then there are a handful of full-on side projects:

Sketch notes

I’ve been doing several more (amateur level) sketch notes of Tech Events, here’s a few links to them (on Twitter only, for the moment):

Now that I post those links, thinking about the state of Twitter, I should probably also give my sketch notes a more permanent home where I am in control of the data.

What’s next!?

Those were the things I’ve been doing (instead of blogging) in the recent past. I find that I actually enjoy blogging only once in a while with recaps of all the weird side projects. So, up next, are probably a bunch more side projects!

Plus, I write this post at the start of an 8-week sabbatical. So who knows? Maybe that gives enough room for one or two side-projects!?