Jonas Wouters @jonas@jw.be

Here I am, this is me, Jonas.
A typical down to earth guy from Belgium (Flanders).

There's nowhere else on earth I'd rather be than with my family 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦.

I'm a software engineer enjoying the craft, even after 20 years.
I have no particular stack preference, but I'm mostly working with Javascript, Typescript, PHP and Golang.

Tech, fantasy and sci-fi excite me.
Other things I love consuming or participating in are LitRPG, nerdcore, gaming, various tabletop RPGs and digital art.

#introduction

Lasercutter in the office might have been a bad idea. I can live with the noise, but the smell is nauseating. We have a decent filter hooked up to it.

I was going to be productive this weekend, instead I spend all my time researching laser cutters/engravers.

The sudden flood of people on telegram and signal is a great opportunity to start up contact with them again. We’ll probably all end up talking on Whatsapp in the end again anyway 🤷 14 messaging apps where 95% is on Whatsapp and I have a few contacts spread across the rest. Im starting to miss the old days where we had open protocols and could use something like Trillian/adium.

Quite late, but everything I set out to do this weekend is done—no real progress, but hopefully fewer headaches in the future. 🤞

Work in progress.

Tomorrow the new desk will be installed in the 3rd bedroom for our kids to work/play on. Very curious about how that is going to turn out.

Joined matrix.org. I'll have to spend some time figuring it out.

Happy new year. Fireworks 💥 is still going as I kind of expected. People on the road ignoring the curfew. 🎉🙈

I'm very curious about how much fireworks I'll be seeing tonight (it's forbidden).
2 nights ago I heard fireworks at 4:30 AM!

Last year people from our street were launching fireworks, and when they saw police lights they all went running inside 😂

After listening to an audiobook at 1.7-2x speed, going back to 1.0 or even 1.3 is perfect to fall asleep and review the book as boring.

Today I was planning to follow a technical course. "Papaaaa, kom eens kijken", "Papaaa waar is de rest van de trein", "papa papa papa mag ik fortnite spelen?" -> "papa speel je mee?"
🤦‍♂️

How did I spend my Christmas evening? Watching lectures I stumbled upon. 🙈 Best one so far: How to speak by Patrick Winston.

I also created my learning plan for 2021 and my list of things I want in abundance in my life. This is the 2nd year I do this, and I’ve learned from my mistakes: took last year's ”abundance list”, which is still relevant, and scrapped all the things I no longer want to prioritise in my life. I’m sure the remaining 5 will get a lot more attention.

Super productive weekend so I don’t have any more personal obligations for the remainder of this year.

And what a cleanup it was. Removed 60 “friends”, all my posts/media, and a script is still running to remove all the remaining activity. It’s crazy to see that every action and every search is just in that activity log.

Tonight, I'm doing another run at cleaning up my Facebook. I've already deleted all my photos and a few hundred posts. I'll be defriending next. #liberating

I’ve been a subscriber of “on that ass” for a while now and I just received their “christmass survival kit” in the mail. I’m impressed! I need the same for socks.

I thought I finished Parks and Recreation yesterday, then season 7 popped up. I love the show, it’s in my top 3 of all time, but I’m afraid they screw up somehow with this totally unnecessary last season. 🤞

I've been deep-diving into the lore of the forgotten realms to prepare my own "homebrew" campaign. The hardest part is getting the players to form a party.

It's so cliché to go with some random group of people to do some random dangerous quest with no assurance of any reward at all. #ttrpg