Blog

I've written 8 posts here so far. I write about software, travel and everything else. I use AI to proofread grammar, spelling and fact-check, but the base writing is always done by me.

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• 23 sep 2026personal

  Why I started this website

  Why I built this website, what a personal brand is for, and what to expect from the posts.

• 19 sep 2026history

  The Kuril islands

  How the Kuril islands went from Japanese to Soviet hands in 1945, and why Japan and Russia still dispute them.

• 30 sep 2024software

  Javascript Closures

  What a Javascript closure is, walked through line by line, and three places where closures are useful.

• 19 mar 2024personal

  March 2024 update

  An update on work, my side project SportsIn, and the championship play-off coming up.

• 28 mar 2023software

  Frontend frameworks showdown: why Svelte wins it for me

  My personal opinion on the most popular frontend frameworks.

• 18 feb 2023software

  An introduction to the OSI model

  Overview of the conceptual model that supports the internet.

• 6 jan 2023software

  Cryptography — An introduction

  An introduction to the building blocks of modern cryptography.

• 10 aug 2021software

  Web design patterns — SSR, SSG, and SPA

  What SSR, SSG and SPA are, how they compare, and which to pick for a documentation site, a blog and a CRM.