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Moved to The Hague a year ago, but having plans to move to Norway. After a hectic year I am taking time for myself. My idea is to take about six months of sabbatical. After that, I am planning to start an exploring journey to Norway, to see if I can find an area where I can settle for a new home.

The large part of my sabbatical I want to focus on being creative, making music, leveling up my drum skills and taking a music production or audio engineering course. And taking a lot of time for myself, to de-stress and work on my health.

Work-wise I am going to focus more on my own startups and coaching developers, next year is my 15th year of freelancing and I love to support others with all the knowledge I have gained.

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🎧 Music

  • Started following a music production course at MPA Rotterdam.
  • Had an amazing drumcamp with Benny Greb and Gavin Harrison. Now putting all I've learned to practice: rudiments with displacing accents, working on timing with click gaps, working on my inner-mixer (volume balance per limb).
  • The new Liquid YS track called "M" is out now. Listen to "M".
  • Just recorded an EP with my band Karvel at Small Pond Studio, Brighton. Busy with mixing, mastering and making videoclips.
  • Learning to play piano.

✨ Miscellaneous

  • Doing weekly Taiko drum-lessons! It's a new approach to drums and definitely a full body workout.
  • Exploring how to be more mindful about myself by focussing on the seven types of rest.
  • Slowly learning to read/decipher Cyrillic.
  • Used to play Padel weekly with a nice group, but had to stop because of planning issues. Now looking for individual matches, hit me up if you want to play a game!

📚 Reading

💻 Work

  • Started coaching developers, guiding them in their learning journey.
  • Mentored four junior fullstack developers towards their first job at MindMingle. They all got hired recently! 🥳 Time to celebrate!
  • Working for Qdrop, a startup that develops an dashboard for impact investors, as a freelance frontend developer.
  • Maintaining and building out new features for Lion Technology.
  • Just finished a 1,5 year period at Schiphol as a freelance fullstack developer.