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  "title": "Recently in February '26",
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  "description": "The shortest month of the year is now ending, which means that two months of 2026 are already gone! February was quite a busy month for me, and it feels like I never had time to fully stop and rest. Let's take a look.",
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  "textContent": "The shortest month of the year is now ending, which means that two months of 2026 are already gone! February was quite a busy month for me, and it feels like I never had time to fully stop and rest. Let's take a look. ✍️ Website This was a big month for this website, full of changes and new things. From a technical perspective, I finally ditched Cloudflare and moved completely to Bunny DNS. Later in the month, I also introduced a completely new design, which made me a bit nervous, but now I'm more accustomed to it. I've also made a few other small updates here and there. Some I want to write about, so I will not bother you about them yet. But smaller things I introduced were the new coffee bags page, where I track the coffee bags I've bought, as well as a rating; and also the new attended page, after extracting the live performances from the watched page. 🍄 Life Smiley Tree Stump At the beginning of the month, I went to FOSDEM, which I've already written about. The week after, I went once more to The Hague for the second round of the Portuguese Presidential Elections. In contrast to the first round, I did not have to wait a long time to vote. However, due to maintenance works on the train tracks, the trip to The Hague took quite some time, since I had to go via Schiphol. I almost decided not to go, but voting is important, even if you no longer live in the country. On a good note, the populist party did not win! Chris came with me, and then we went to Leiden, since we already had to pass through there anyways. We saw a bit of the city, and bought some nice tea at Het Klaverblad. 💪 Health I did not run this month, as I've been focusing on swimming. I've started going twice a week to the swimming pool, and in my last lesson last Thursday I went to the deep area of the pool. I was a bit nervous and a bit uneasy, but I just did it anyways. It went better than I expected. Other than that, I continued with my strength training workouts, which I realized have not been as heavy as they should be. There's a gym opening nearby next month, so maybe I will try that out. I have some dumbbells at home, but I think having a space focused for it makes me also more likely to push myself more than at home. 🍿 Entertainment I attended what I would usually consider too many concerts 🎵 this month: three. Considering we need to travel quite some time to get to the concert venues, it definitely contributed to the general tiredness this month. The two smaller concerts we went two were Magdalena Bay and Audrey Hobert. Both fantastic in their own ways. These were not artists that I knew that well, but I still enjoyed it a lot! A bonus here was that Allie X opened for Magdalena Bay. I'm a big fan of her, and I'm really happy that I was able to see her one more time. We were not even expecting that, since we only looked at what was the pre-programme one or two days before. So nice. Florence + The Machine Then, the star of the month, was Florence + The Machine. She has such an amazing voice, and the band was also terrific. They played a harp live, and even did a harp solo. I've never see that before. Having Paris Paloma open their show just made it even better! When it comes to movies 🍿, we watched Saltburn, The Threesome, Wuthering Heights (the new one), and Bottoms. They were all entertaining, some better than others, but that's what we always happens. If I had to recommend one, I think I'd either recommend The Threesome or Saltburn, depending on what kind of movies you enjoy. When it comes to TV Shows 📺, we watched the first season of How to Get to Heaven From Belfast and Trying. Both really enjoyable. We've also been busy trying to watch Bridgerton, but we have not yet watched the second part that was released a few days ago! Have a nice weekend!"
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