Rotterdam gardens: Kralingen & Trompenburg

I'm going the hortus up: I want to visit more botanical gardens and write more, so I'm combining them so one becomes a reason to do the other. In May, I visited two gardens in Rotterdam: Kralingen and Trompenburg, which formed a neat contrast between them.

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nofmt::join

This post is three parts journey, one part self-indulgence, and one part this-might-be-useful-to-you. In short: I ported fmt::join to work with <format>. You can find it at barometz/nofmt-join.

At work, we're hoping to switch some things from the excellent {fmt} library to the now standardized <format>. The one …

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The botanical garden path

In October of last year I visited the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam. This was an almost religious experience, so naturally it took me a year to visit another garden like it. I'm going to pick up the pace a bit.

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Using PuTTY & Pageant with Git and VS Code

PuTTY is a common choice for an SSH client on Windows. Despite this, most manuals for setting up integration with tools like Git and VS Code seem to focus on OpenSSH. So what do I do when I have my SSH public/private keys set up in PuTTY, and want …

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Blogstack

Can't have a website without talking about how it's made.

woord.baudvine.net is part of a larger effort to simplify my online infrastructure situation:

  • Disentangle baudvine.net from Google Workspaces.
  • Move stuff under a single domain.
  • Let go of the excellent dvanb.nl domain, which is more attached to …
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Remote Senseo

This post was transferred from its original home on another blog. The formatting is a mess, but maybe it can still entertain someone.

Long overdue update

During the project demo, my Senseo ruined three Arduinos, one of which over a CAN-bus connection, and a USB port. I'm moderately proud of …

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