Project Hub Feenix

Just as Raisa and I had put the final touches on VillaTaika, after 15 years, we found this:

The exact circumstances of how we managed to buy it remain a mystery, but it is certain that on 01.04.2020 our life changed dramatically.

As one can see it is ridiculously big, which we like to call full of possibilities. We have events, resident artists, nomads, volunteers, makers, And we are starting to build a community.

Love

I met the love of my life 24.04.2004 and we got married 07.07.2007. Almost daily i am reminded how miraculous being loved and being able to love actually is. No wonder there are so many songs along the line "love is all you need".

Raisa is just about the most wonderful opposite of me, being a dance teacher, clown, dj and general force of life. Reminding us yearly with her Wonder Of Life Fesitival how precius our time is.

About me

After studying physics i programmed prefessionally for about 10 years. Then i moved to the country and started a new life.

Later i came back to coding semi professional, and even later, just for fun

At some point i started a building company, and now we are building a community Feenix.

Makerspace

After doing the other things (events etc), and a lot of landscaping around the house, my main focus is now the makerspace.

For me the creativity has never been painting, more learning new techniques, and putting things (materials) together in new ways. Making things that i didn't know how to before, thus the makerspace.

3d

I finally bought a printer, and then another (anycubic predator) and another (VCore3). Now that we have a real need, see feenix project.

So i tried to learn to design, but in the end found it easier to program the shapes i wanted. The result, with adjustable knobs, off course realtime 3d preview and stl export, has it's own page here

Coding Fun

I was suprprised in 2010 or so by actually starting to enjoy coding again.

And having witnessed the rise and oh so sad fall of ruby, i tried to do something to restore developers faith in dynamic oo, namely writing a to binary compliler for ruby, called ruby-x. This was slightly naive, in that it is a much larger project than i thought, but i did manage to get some binaries. Now i let the pros at shopify carry the torch, and they are doing a good job.

Before that i had learned rails and built a POS and online system for our shop, that we have now used for over 10 years.

Now with Feenix, which already has 6 sites, i finally wrote a simple CMS which uses tailwind. I called it breeze, because it is so easy to use.

Woodwork

Having enjoyed woodworking as a hobby, i took up building part time after Villa Taika was done.

Soon after i met Dave from England who introduced me to Timber framing and we did that together for many years.

Then we have started a company to build houses that have a timber frame at it's core, and are very ecological.

Change has come again and this is now a hobby again (the circle of life?). I still hope to build a home again, but now we build a community.

Rebirth oth the old Home

We bought an old school and remodelled it into a beautiful B&B called Villa Taika. The name means something like natural wonder, and mostly through Raisa's keen eye (who knew women actually have more color receptors), many enjoy it a small holiday to asia, without leaving the country. Off season we rented to courses too.

Remodelling our home is what got me into (wood) building, and working with wood.

There was a fire in 2024 and now thte house needs remodelling (very literal feenix energy). Then it will be part of feenix, maybe the residency.