Ruud's Now page

(Inspired by nownownow.com) Updated 2025-10-23

This is me

52 years of age

Where am I

I am living with my wife, 2 kids, 2 dogs, a cat and 4 chickens, in the Roosendaal area in the south-west of The Netherlands.

This is our youngest dog, Rosa:

What do I do for work

I am a freelance database and systems administrator.
My current employees are Rijkswaterstaat, Basetide and SQLBrander.nl

What do I do for hobbies

Self-hosting

I like self-hosting stuff, like applications I can use.
I also host Fediverse instances, a few of which have grown large...
Examples are https://mastodon.world and https://lemmy.world.
For this, I have setup a foundation.

This month, I have installed a Bonfire instance.

Music collecting

My music collection now consists of 9992 items. (I need 8 more...).
I still have my CDs but nowadays I only buy vinyl.

Pool playing

I play pool in the local competition in SportPub Goes.

Series watching

I like watching series, currently I am watching:

• The Diplomat (Season 3)

Reaching me

As said, I host many social media (Fediverse) instances. The one I use most myself is my personal one, so check @ruud@ruud.social.
I also host a Matrix server (lemmy.world) so with Matrix I can be reached at @ruud:lemmy.world