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Resources across four topics.
A collection of tools, references, and links worth keeping — most recent first.
European Whisky Auctions
European Whisky Auctions is a monthly online auction platform for rare, exclusive and collectible whisky, founded just after Brexit to fill the gap left by major British auction houses disappearing behind a new border. Every bottle is carefully inspected before it goes to auction — authenticity is not assumed, it is verified. The platform connects buyers and sellers across more than seventy countries, with free collection services across the EU and worldwide shipping.
With nearly a thousand lots per month and five years under the hammer, EWA has grown into one of Europe's leading whisky auction platforms. For anyone serious about building a collection or selling bottles at fair market value, it is the place to start.
Monthly auctions. Free EU collections. Seller commission: 0%.
FlightLevel
FlightLevel is a no-nonsense flight school and aviation company based at Drachten Airport, with a second location at Hoogeveen. They train for PPL, LAPL and RPL-MLA, offer trial flights for anyone curious about flying, and rent aircraft to licensed pilots. Their fleet includes Diamond Katanas, a Belmont MLA and a Piper Archer II — practical, well-maintained aircraft flown by instructors who know what they're doing.
It is where I learned to fly. I am now a co-owner, which tells you everything about what I think of the place.
Flight training, aircraft rental, trial flights. Drachten and Hoogeveen.
Laravel
Laravel is a PHP web application framework built around the principle that development should be enjoyable without sacrificing power. It provides elegant solutions for routing, authentication, queues, events and database abstraction — a complete toolkit for building modern web applications without reinventing the wheel at every turn. The ecosystem is mature, well-documented and backed by a large global community.
It is the foundation everything I build runs on. Not because it was the obvious choice, but because after years of working with it, it remains the framework that gets out of the way and lets you focus on the problem you are actually trying to solve.
The PHP framework for web artisans. Open source, MIT licensed.