Top 10

Here you can listen to my personal top 10, as well as a live set that I have performed on a small festival. To find the full list of tracks, check out this page.

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Whisky

My love for whisky began quite some time ago when I went to the liquor store and let them advise me a whisky that was not too peaty and I came home with the Tomatin Legacy, which was more of the spicy and fruity kind (vanilla and citrus). It really took off when I went to Edinburgh and visited the whisky museum. From that moment on I have tried a lot of whisky's, starting with Scotch, but after visiting the Teeling distillery and the whiskey museum in Dublin my interest in Irish whiskey grew as well.

Scotland's whisky regions each have their own character, shaped by their landscape, climate and traditions. Speyside is known for elegant, fruity whiskies, often with notes of orchard fruit, honey and dried fruit, while sherry maturation can add layers of rich spice and sweetness. The Highlands are the most diverse of Scotland's whisky regions, producing everything from light and floral drams to rich, spicy and gently smoky whiskies. The Lowlands are traditionally associated with lighter, softer whiskies, often showing fresh, grassy, floral and citrus notes. Campbeltown, once home to dozens of distilleries, is known for distinctive maritime whiskies combining notes of salt, fruit, oil and gentle smoke. Islay is famous for its powerful peated whiskies, with characteristic flavours of smoke, seaweed, iodine and bonfire, although the island also produces beautifully unpeated drams. The Islands are perhaps the most varied of all, with each island offering its own interpretation of whisky, from fresh and maritime to rich, spicy and smoky.

You can find more information on Wikipedia. For all of my tastings you can visit my whisky page.

DIY

I spend enough time making things on a screen, so every now and then I like to make something that I can actually touch.

One of my bigger projects was this hexagonal cabinet. It started as a fairly simple idea and turned into considerably more measuring, cutting and figuring things out than I had anticipated. On this page you can find a summary of my other diy projects.

In the past I have written some more blogs and tutorials, they are quite outdated now but you can still find them on my playground website.

Resume

About 20 years ago I wrote my first HTML and later on also CSS came by, these became HTML5 and CSS3. But I wanted more than just a static website and when PHP 4.0 was released, I enrolled into creating dynamic websites, some of which you can still find on my homepage.

I started programming procedurally and while PHP grew up, I got more into object oriented programming (OOP). As of version 7.0, my website was built onto a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. After that, I moved on to using CodeIgniter as a framework and later on Laravel, connecting to the SoundCloud API to show off my music productions.

Currently this is the 23rd version of my website, this includes major design overhauls, migrating to other frameworks or platforms, also migrating from shared hosting to a VPS. The previous version ran on React and currently it is running on Next.js using Typescript on serverless hosting at Vercel.

Ambitions

I would like to work on more React / NextJS projects, as well as Laravel projects. This can be in a standalone setup, but also a headless / composable setup with React based frontend. The backend could be Laravel or a web based database / CMS.

Hobbies

My hobbies include web development, both front- and backend because I really like to deliver a complete product. I like to get to know the latest technologies in development, including hardware, frameworks, the newest trends in PHP and CSS, Typography. Furthermore I like woodworking, creating music and I am volunteering as a swimming instructor, which I started right after I got my swimming certificates for a total of around 20 years.

Portfolio

Below are some additional websites I have created that are still online today.

  • Playground: the previous version of my website, I kept it online so it can serve as my playground for testing new features and to serve as my creative outlet.
  • Weerbaar Worden: a website that I made for a friend, which was meant to be child friendly.
  • Black Hole: being a music project that I have had with a couple of friends.
  • Index: a band website of another couple of friends.
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