Content Warning: This blog post involves mentions of self-harm and suicidal thoughts. Spoken version: (coming soon…) Text version: Hi readers, It’s another more real life focused blog post. This time it will be about my personal story with the healthcare system, specifically for mental health, in The Netherlands. Back …

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Hi readers, Some of you have been messaging me where I have been. Well, life’s been an adventure. The next post will be a technical one, however this post will be limited to real life shenanigans. Back in April while I was on a trip to Berlin, I had a good friend reach out to me and asked if I wanted to come over. Now …

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On March 29th I turned 21 years old.. It seems like that lots of things have changed, but not the things I was hoping for. I have a fixed-term position now somewhere as a job, which is useful, though also annoying as it’s a fixed-term position after all. But to be realistic, it’s a good start considering where I’m at. …

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What is the vExpert program and most importantly, what has it done for me? That’s what this blog post is about. The video can be found here. Here is the explanation of the vExpert program carefully quoted from their site: “The VMware vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelism and advocacy program. The program is …

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Hi readers, Technology related content will return soon. However, first here’s an update as to what has been going on with my transition. On June 23th I have my intake appointment with a speech therapist, who will teach me how to speak and sound more feminine (so, a higher pitched voice). On July 11th, I have an intake …

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I haven’t posted here in a while and an update is due, don’t worry, it is coming! Wanted to post a teaser here; next week I’m going to migrate my dear in the datacenter from a shared colo rack to my own full rack. This will be great but requires a lot of work, best thing is, I’m going to make a blog post (or series) …

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In this post I’ll be giving some updates about myself; I’ve had a lot on my plate recently and things are starting to settle down and good things are starting to happen. Lots of things have happened; here are some updates: First of all, as you probably read in the title, I have a job now! Well, I actually have my own …

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Hi, Happy new year! Even though I am 35 days late for that. This post will be broken up into several sections, but as you can read from the title this is a real life situation update. For those who just come here for the lab update; I wanted to say that I have a dedicated post for that in the works. Hospital and …

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This post will be an update of my IRL situation, based off of this previous post here. Transition related news: I have finished at the hospital’s psychiatric department and have been forwarded to their gynecologist, who will help, check and monitor me with the medical transition. So think of hormones, other treatments, …

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Good day everyone, This post is more of a personal update on how things are going with me, where I am in my transition and why I haven’t made as many blog posts. So I’ve been busy with getting things settled with the hospital that is going to eventually give me my hormones among with making sure I can get other …

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