I added a new feature to this site. I can now embed posts into posts. This will only work on the site itself. If you're reading this via RSS, you might want to come over.

Here's an example:

Marcel

Mar 10, 2024

Lately, despite my best efforts, I've noticed more gray hairs at my temples, recurring fashion trends, and a sharp memory of events from two decades ago, all of which frequently …

But that's not all. Here's an example of a post that contains an image:

Marcel

Sep 22, 2025

A couple of months ago, I wondered if micro-blogging and journaling could be combined. Something about sending off small posts feels different from crafting a whole journal entry. …

But I didn't stop there! I can embed dailies, too. Because why not! See here:

Marcel

Mar 19, 2026

I'll never enjoy flying. It's against nature and shouldn't be possible.

And because embedding seems to be the theme of the hour, here's an embed for a tag. It shows the most recent entries with that tag and links to the tag detail page.

Shoutout to Codex for doing most of the work on this!

I’m going to be honest with you: I love buying stuff. I don’t do it often because I don’t like having stuff, but finding things, buying them, and then playing around with them is one of my favorite pastimes. Unfortunately, I’m not hedonistic enough to indulge this desire all the time.

But my yearly theme, The Year of Art, makes it easy to justify buying a new sketchbook every couple of weeks, or trying out a new medium or a different kind of brush.

I love it. I can go down endless rabbit holes, figure out exactly which kind of gouache paint was used for a piece I like, and then buy it for a couple of bucks and experiment with it. The same goes for pencils, brushes, and paper.

The Year of Art is going great.

I don’t need a PlayStation 5 Pro. Not yet, that is. My plan was to buy one at the end of the year so I could play GTA 6, if it gets released.

The other day, Sony announced yet another price increase for all PlayStation models, and the PS5 Pro is set to cost €150 more. That’s a 20% price increase for a two-year-old console. Absurd.

Being as economical as I am, I ordered a PS5 Pro at the old price, and it’ll arrive on Tuesday. This wasn’t the plan. I don’t want to spend more time playing video games right now. But I can’t say no to a “deal.”

Amazon already increased the prices (days before Sony’s deadline), and the PS5 Pro is sold out.

Weird times.

The Pokémon franchise lost me at some point. The games felt repetitive and I wasn’t interested in the grind anymore. That’s why I didn’t care about Pokopia when it was announced. Why would I want to play a knock-off Animal Crossing?

This quickly changed when the first reviews came out and were over-the-moon positive. And what can I say? I finished the main story yesterday and had a blast. I can’t remember the last time a video game had me in its grips like that.

I can’t wait to jump back in and start really working on my towns and making everything pretty.

My 2026 is the Year of Art and to make sure that I stick to this theme I started drawing a daily visual journal on the first of January. Up until now I only posted these on social media but I figured it would be nice to give these little artworks a place of their own. Introducing: Dailies!

I improved a few things about the blog design. First up, a completely useless addition that makes this design feel even more like a social media stream: You can now hover over the avatar to see a little card with information about me and a few shortcuts.

Next I came up with a completely new take on comments in blogs. It looks like a classic comment form but it's just a quick way to fire off an e-mail to me. Do I hear you mumble "Wow, that's genius!"? You're right!

Last but not least: A few changes to the library. It now features a grid view and sorting options. I also added cute little hover tooltips for each view.

You might need to clear your cache if something looks funny.

Innovation in blog design rarely happens, but I had something of an epiphany and gave this blog a fresh coat of paint. My primary impetus was that I didn't like how giving something a headline makes it feel far too official. So I removed them. Now every post feels like a quick, throwaway thing on social media.

Less pressure, more posts? We'll find out!

Watching people work at Disney Animation is my happy place. It makes me surprisingly emotional to see how much care and love goes into these movies. It’s perfectionism brought to its absolute zenith, and I’m so glad it exists.

These two videos made me very happy recently:

Here is my prediction for the name of Apple’s foldable iPhone.

We are (roughly) in the 20th year of the iPhone. At year ten, Apple introduced the iPhone X, a real break from the past with a new design and a new way of interacting with the device.

Now it has been another ten years. (Not really, but they skipped the iPhone 9 to call it X, so they obviously don't care about precision.)

X is the Roman numeral for ten. XX is twenty. A foldable iPhone has two displays.

iPhone 2X

Twenty years (XX). Two screens (2x).

You heard it here first.