Last updated: March 24, 2025
Big Updates
Say hello to my newborn son, Aiden! At two months, he's a healthy, happy baby and quite chill with new people. Other than lack of sleep, everything is going well with him so far. I'm on parental leave until May, and we're starting daycare soon.
Naturally, this means that the rest of this update will be shorter than usual. Not much else is going on in my life except for being a parent.
Hosting
In December, I hosted a New Year's Eve party. This will probably be the last major house party for a while. I already miss it. Leon and Luuk were visiting from Amsterdam and stayed over a couple of nights.
My parents came to help me out with Aiden for the first month. They joined me in Oregon for his birth, and we flew together back to NYC. I don't think I could've survived those first weeks if it weren't for them.
Hobbies
I released my first video game in over a decade! Called Rothexology (you are welcome to decide on the pronunciation), it's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, and it's mostly just an attempt to learn the basics of programming a video game. Please let me know what you think if you try it out. As part of my learning process, I also wrote my first ever shader. Consider yourself blessed if you don't know what that is.
I added an RSS (technically an ATOM) feed to these updates for those who prefer to consume their updates this way.
Media
Highlights
- Watched One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) with my parents, a Netflix show based on a book that my mom always wanted me to read, and I never got around to. Incredible production and storytelling!
More
- Books
- Exodus: The Archimedes Engine / Peter F. Hamilton
- Movies
- First Man
- The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
- The Color Purple
- Star Trek: Section 31
- Presence
- Braveheart
- Mars Express
- Midsommar
- TV
- The Acolyte
- The Dragon Prince
- Bravest Warriors
- Severance
- White Lotus
- The Ark
- Video Games
- Tunic
- Age of Wonders 4
- Civilization VII
- Dorpie
- Halo 5: Guardians
Soon
- Going back to work, I guess.