Tag: tierdom

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? (Apr 2024)

Jeroen

Seems like it’s becoming a tradition to fill this blog mostly with roughly yearly recaps (see 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023). And you know what? I’m good with that! So, without further ado, let’s dive into recent projects!

Pincrediball

Let’s start with the biggest project of the year! In my eight-week sabbatical I decided to learn how to design, build, and publish a full game. And I got there in the end!

Here are all the interesting resources to have a look at:

It’s not the best game in the world, but I am extremely proud that I created and published a game without any prior experience in the field (outside programming business line applications of course).

Tierdom

Another pretty big project in 2023 was “Tierdom“: a web application where you can show a ranked list of things you’ve enjoyed. Games, books, movies, … you name it! It’s here to solve a particular gripe with platforms like IMDB or BoardGameGeek or similar: those platforms are great but they might rug-pull at any time they please. With Tierdom, you own your own words and ratings!

Here’s a quick screenshot:

Screenshot with a blurry tier list in the background, and a modal dialog praising "Commander Keen" as an "S-tier" game

And here are the main links at the moment:

I’m still planning on turning this into an online service of some kind, to let others benefit as well. Stay tuned!

Blog posts

Although I didn’t write on this blog, as mentioned above I did write a ton of posts on the Pincrediball devlog. A whopping 39 blog posts in total!! So no wonder I didn’t feel like writing much more here.

Oh, and here are some posts I wrote for my employer’s blog:

  • January 2024: a (Dutch) post congratulating the winners of the Infi Advent of Code 2023 puzzle.
  • July 2023: a (Dutch) post titled “Hardware! (Part 3: The Rest)“
  • April 2023: a (Dutch) post titled “Hardware! (Part 2: Randapparatuur)“
  • February 2023: a (Dutch) post titled “Hardware! (Part 1: Laptops)“

Advent of Code

Again, a separate section for the yearly programming puzzles challenge. Same three mini-projects as all previous years:

  • My AoC 2023 solutions in TypeScript. No room for learning a new language, but I did use the Deno runtime this year for a change of pace.
  • The AoC 2023 Survey and its Results. The web-based results dashboards is paying off, and I’ve polished and updated it this year to become even better!
  • The AoC Browser Extension got some significant love again, with a bunch of contributions from the community again. A couple of thousand installs so quite a few folks enjoying our work!

What’s next!?

Above is the stuff I’ve been busy with in the past year or so. It’s unclear what’s next, although improving Tierdom is pretty high up the list. I’d recommend staying tuned for the next recap to know how things turned out!

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!?