Turns out it’s from an old translation of James 4:15, here formulated as: “[If] so the Lord wills and we live”

The English equivalent would be “God willing” and in Dutch, a lovely archaic phrase: “Zo de Heere wil en wij leven”

I started the Witcher 3 and immediately the world feels like a checklist and for some reason I can’t take Gerald seriously. He looks comical, like a teen’s drawing, and the movement feels completely ungrounded.

• Circut Superstars. I’ll never become good at this but close to finishing it on Amateur
• Diablo 4. I dislike the MMOification and despite Blizzard, but got it with the Xbox so might as we’ll play it. The campaign and monster bashing are fine
• Sound Shapes. Sweet game, taking it one album at a time
• Trials Rising. Cleaning up the Hard tracks and that ain’t no lie
• Dirt 2.0 demo. I’m OK at CMR 2 and 05 but I have no idea how to control my car in this one. It’ll come with time

Programming. I don’t like where it’s heading and I don’t like the culture

I like retro programming, in particular Windows 2000.

Now I’m making a little 3D toy now that works with OpenGL on Windows with WGL and on X11 with GLX (also on Cygwin). No third party abstractions!

I want to keep adding backends, like DX 7, 9, Vulkan, WebGL, bare Linux KMS, and then stuff like screen space reflections, shadows, materials, ray tracing where possible, maybe get it running on a console or two too.

Note that ProtonMail actually supports automatic encryption to email accounts that publish their public keys in a Web Key Directory, which I’ve set up for mine. When you type such an email address in the To field, it’ll turn into a special color with a lock symbol.

Likewise, ProtonMail also exposed a WKD so people can send encrypted emails to ProtonMail accounts. I don’t know of any mail clients that support this though (I used the command line to pull keys)

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

Flikken Maastricht. Not because it’s so good but we always try to match the drum beats in the intro

Go read The Freeze Frame Revolution!

A cop once asked me to shake my backpack to make sure there were no graffiti cans in there. Obviously there weren’t.

Now I’m involved a bit in activism get searched on the regular. It’s mostly procedural, I have the privilege of being not really considered a criminal.

Don’t tell them about baby powder!

“Nationalists of all nations: unite!”

The A12 protest is very willing to coordinate emergency routes, in any case they allow for emergency service passage (this regularly happens), and their location is easily routed around. Overall their impact is less than run of the mill roadworks and not comparable in the slightest to a major event.

I hope they don’t organise marathons or street fairs where you’re at, or worse, resurface a road.

It was surreal to read about talk of extremism, social disruption and the calls for corporal punishment (by police), long jail sentences and more, all for a 5-10 minute delay caused by the A12 blockade, when the day after I was helping out at the Egmond Half Marathon there was real disruption, where people really couldn’t go places with their cars… not to mention events like the Dam tot Damloop or Amsterdam Marathon that effectively put parts of our capital city on lockdown. No calls for water cannons there.

People might say “Those are not the same!” and that’s true - sport events are not a constitutional right.

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

The sad irony of that site asking me to accept tracking by them and their 214 partners.

I used the last of my leave days for the work mandated time off between Christmas and New Years Day. We have plenty, but I used so much for holiday and activism. So I haven’t taken the customary full two weeks off and will be back at the office on 2 Jan. Don’t mind it, I like the quiet office.

But we make up for that with griekse y, korte ei and lange ij! All pronounced [ɛi], similar to ‘eye’.