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An absolutely delicious 30 minutes Eastern dish that is sweet, sour, crunchy and just about the perfect way to use your leftover meat from a nice steak.

A stunning classic of italian cuisine - that will bring the sun right into your kitchen :)

Who told you lasagna is complicated and labour-intensive? Here's a version that takes less than 20 active minutes to make and feeds up to 4 people!

A delicious, zesty, creamy pasta that has just the perfect tang to go paired with some fish - like a salmon fillet!

A delicious, low cost, high spice Japanese classic - after you try this, good luck going to McDonald's again!

And absolutely stunning dish that looks like it came from the restaurant, yet it costs under 5 euro and under 20 minutes to make!

The tomato pasta of Asian cuisine, this is a super delicious, high energy, low maintenance dish that is perfect for leftovers!

A fantastic persian dish, relatively easy to make, and with a surprisingly crunchy taste. Absolutely delicious and exotic to boot!

A beautifully textured oven dish that uses simple ingredients and leftover bread to create an amazing explosion of flavour.

A delicious and relatively healthy, very instagrammable breakfast.

A delicious eastern recipe full of taste and fatty, smooth, spicy and zesty flavours

A zesty, delicious, sweet salmon with a fantastic tangy sauce. Exotic comfort food!

A very expensive (but very tasty and healthy) thick oven dish. Swap out the asparagus for zucchini to make it cheap and delicious!

However you want to call it, this is a delicious, filling, fast and cheap dish that will awaken your southern vibes!

A delicious, spicy, sea-foody pasta with springy greens. Less than 20 minutes from start to finish!

An absolutely delicious vegetarian lasagna substitute.

A deliciously spicy dish for cold days

Super delicious, crusty but juicy, pan-seared and oven-cooked lamb

A super simple, super tasty comfort recipe straight from Italy

A brilliant way of preparing a super light but savory fish lunch.

Just like the one in Ratatouille (2007) :)

A beautiful way to turn any bread into the perfect hotel-like breakfast.

A surprisingly technical recipe. Follow the instructions and you'll get rewarded with soft and creamy clouds.

A delicious, zingy pasta with a creamy sauce that brings that nice foresty mushroom taste home.

A classic mexican omelette - perfect for brunch!

A super tasty salmon + asparagus combo whose bitterness is edged out by the zesty pomegranate compote. All the texture, no bitter!

A classic greek dish, filling and fulfilling to make.

exactly what is says on the tin ;)

The quintessential European dish - quick to make and fantastic to eat.

An ugly dish that takes 20 minutes to make and is absolutely delicious

Roasted spicy chicken wings? Sign me up.

Yes, it's a recipe for (homemade) burgers you can whip together in 20 minutes. Perfect comfort food!

Some quick but supertasty salmon with white wine and cream you can make in 20 minutes to impress your mom.

As sir mix-a-lot once said, "I like big buns and I cannot lie". God I'm truly turning into a suburban mom...

A very strong-a-noff way of mixing meat and pasta for an amazing winter dish

Kind of like an omelet ô fromâsg, but better?

Delicious, fast high energy dish the local brunch place charges you 10 euro for.

Well, it's a cheesecake. What more is there to say? 🤤

Delicious italian risotto with some zucchini. Mamma mia!

As healthy as salad is, but not disgusting.

Delicious and easy to make brownies

Poached eggs like at the restaurant, except cheaper (with a killer tip to make hollandaise)

Just the best oven potatoes you'll ever eat!

An absolute classic of Roman cuisine, this is a silky smooth, juicy pasta that is quick to prepare!

A beautiful fusion mix of Chairman Mao's braised pork belly, and beef bourguignon - to be made in just over 1 hour.

A beautiful oven-baked dish made of salmon and sweet glaze with some patatas bravas.

In a crowded year for TV miniseries, Industry is a niche joint US/UK production that will blow you away with its masterful twists, understated thrill and instantly recognizable character arcs. If you're part of the industry, you'll love Industry.

Yoann Lemoine's second studio album - 7 years in the making - is an incredibly powerful slow burner, S16 manages to mantain Woodkid's signature cinematic style while taking a significant step forward in both lyrics and arrangements. An incredible effort, well worth the wait.

The law of unintended consequences states that every idea that is shipped to production will have a permanent negative effect on at least one other idea that was or is currently being shipped to production. How do we break it?

Privacy and ownership of your own data is increasingly being peddled both as a regulatory issue as well as a product issue. Just don't be fooled: it's plenty possible to uniquely identify your device without asking for consent. Here's how.

Why do people keep asking about your product roadmap? Are they lost? Scared? Trying to steal your ideas? All of the above, and you should thank them.

Have you always wanted a blog just like The Damn Blog? Fear no more: this easy tutorial will walk you through the entire process, from start to finish, in 7 very simple steps!

Understanding the role of Operations and Support in product management, and how sometimes cutting corners is a good product choice.

A controversial opinion on how product management is equal parts vision and execution - and why good execution is way harder than good vision.

Introducing a new Damn Series about product management, pet peeves, case studies and everything else I've learned in the field.

Tales from the Loop, Amazon Studios' new effort, takes Simon Stålenhag's alternate history paintings and makes an entire new TV series out of it. Against all expectations, it is an absolute home run, and one of the strongest contenders for 'best of 2020' so far.

Every once in a while, a product comes along that is a generational leap ahead of everything else - and they do tend to change the world. Facebook's Oculus Quest is one of those - incredibly transformative, and full of potential.

The greatest movies of 2019 - according to The Damn Blog - come from all over the world. All of them are technical masterpieces And I think at least a couple will become timeless classics. So, without further ado...

Hideo Kojima's latest game is an impressive exercise in world building - a slow-burning, multi-layered mix of narrative twists, flawless visual storytelling, and rewarding exploration of some of humanity's core themes is much, much more than a game. It really is the medium's first masterpiece.

Sneakers are everywhere in Amsterdam. Walk into any party, and you'll see plenty of immaculate kicks. Move to the office, and you'll be greeted by a crow of techbros showing off their latest on-feet purchases. Where do these people buy their sneakers? Read on to find out...

Everyday objects are disposable, utilitarian affairs - borne out of necessity and built with just enough care to whitstand some daily use. It's very rare for a mass-manifactured object to create a connection with its owner. The Sony RX1 is one of the few exceptions to this rule.

Japan is a place that's incredibly advanced, and at the same time very attached to its traditions and culture. I've done my best to convey this feeling in pictures during a recent trip to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and a few other spots.

Most people can 'easily' understand and visualize up to 2 dimensions, so very often - when visualizing networks of similarities - you will consciously or unconsciously try to reduce down to two dimensions. Here's a few ways to go about that.

Featuring a weird mix of postmodern colonialism, Suriname music and soft drugs, Amsterdam Roots is a free experience at the heart of Amsterdam. Fun, interesting, and sometimes challenging - it's Dutchlandia at its best.

Facebook has announced its own Cryptocurrency: Libra. I want to touch on a couple points which I believe the current conversation lacks: its monetary and economics implication, its role in developing economies, and its use as a payment method.

Low-budget but high-stakes, Captive State is a masterful science fiction feature, tightly directed and featuring some first class actors, brilliant scenes, and a killer soundtrack: if this one slipped under your radar, it's definitely time to change that.

Smartphone photography is bridging the gap between small-sensor cameras and full frame sensors thanks to much smarter post-processing. Such a powerful technology in our pocket all the time - but can we replicate this effect at home?

It's been 15 years since the Animatrix hit the screens with a themed anthology of shorts, geared towards adults, and fully animated - and despite its crazy success, nothing has ever come close to it in the decades after. Netflix's Love, Death and Robots is here to change that.

As more and more people get interested in data science, the risk of getting biased insights by applying cookie-cutter models is definitely on the rise. But what we're interested in is cause, not spurious correlation. How can we find causal relationships in the real world?

Mr. Redding is a New Zealand advertising director who passed away in 2012. His brief piece 'A short lesson in perspective' is possibly the single most influential item of writing I've read in my entire life. Since it's about to disappear forever from the internet, I'm re-hosting it on the Damn Blog.

My blog posts are plagued with typos - an unfortunate side effect of writing at night. So I can either use a spelling checker, or write one - but how does one write a spelling checker actually?

Does regulation do anything good for airplane accidents? We can find an answer to this question - and analyze any moving process to see if it has changed over time - using Bayesian statistics in a fully probabilistical framework.

What makes a cat, a cat? Using unsupervised methods, we can create a snappy visual search engine by implicitly teaching our model how a kitten looks like.

Given a number of potential returns associated with certain tasks, and given limited allocable time for multiple people, how can we make sure everyone's time is used to the max for the best global welfare?

Complex models can be hard to distribute, host and serve. Luckily we can use Docker to deploy a state-of-the-art text classifier from start to finish.

A SAT solver can be a brilliant way to satisfy multi-constraint optimization problems. But converting logical constraints to the right format requires some brain muscles!

Building a generative Variational Autoencoder from scratch to imagine Fashion MNIST clothes from a sampled Gaussian latent space: who said AIs can't be creative?

A stylish crossover between a Tarantino pulp movie and an atmospheric Twin Peaks episode, Bad Times at the El Royale features smart writing, a stellar cast and enough twist and turns to make even the most sophisticated moviegoer feel dizzy.

Hidden in the Red Light district, TonTon offers free board games, cheap beers and expensive retro arcades. Featuring a few classics, including Time Splitters, Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter, this is the place to be if you like arcades, cozy date venues, or beers.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs' heartfelt memoir about growing up with (and without) her father Steve is a stunning portrait of how growing up, having multiple families is not supposed to look like. Valiant and sharp, Small Fry is a brave debut full of brilliant moments, and an absolute must read.

The latest Spider-Man is a superb movie - a visual triumph supported by an amazing cast of characters, an incredible soundtrack, fantastic art direction and a damn good story to boot. A once-in-a-generation event, the best Spider-Man ever, and possibly the greatest movie of 2018.

A brilliant space full of interesting objects, Tropenmuseum is, quite remarkably, the first entity in an ex colonial country (NL) that manages to come to terms with its dark history in a mature and fair manner. Incredible and well worth a visit.

Sharp Objects is a twisted limited series straight out of the HBO stables. Jean-Marc Vallée's perfect direction and Amy Adams' riveting performance make this one the perfect material for some twisted winter binge watching.

As one of the best temporary exhibitions at the City Museum (Stedelijk) in recent memory, 'Amsterdam Magisch Centrum' chronicles art, innovation and resistance on and around 1968 in the Dutch Capital. Definitely go and see this one!

the Rijksmuseum's latest exhibition chronicles 80 years of civil war in the Lowlands. More actual than ever, this brilliant show acts as a perfect warning sign for those who fear whoever's different and are ready to fight and die for god and country: be careful what you wish for.

Mumford, Lovett, Marshall and Dwane's fourth album is a subdued and mature affair. Die-hard fans hoping for some funky banjo hits need to look elsewhere, as do the critics looking for some ill-advised country pop renaissance. Everyone else, listen to this one.

The recently opened Fashion For Good space in central Amsterdam is a highly interesting, if a bit limited, first step towards a better world - and one that's well worth paying a visit to.

"My hobby is to burn greenhouses" whispers Steven Yeun in "Burning" - "I pick an old greenhouse abandoned in the fields and burn it. Once about every two months? I think that's the best pace". It's probably the most terrorizing scene I've seen in the last few years.

Kogonada's debut film Columbus is a spellbinding feature about architecture, beauty and human connections. A stunning vehicle for co-stars Haley Lu Richardson and John Cho, Columbus goes to show that small movies can have a huge impact, and stay with you long after the credit rolls.

Belgian director Lucas Dhont's highly anticipated debut 'Girl' absolutely blew me away: the rumours are true, this is an incredible movie, and highly deserving of the awards it's been getting around Europe. Read on for the full review, and go watch it if you can!

Lab 111 is a cozy movie theater in West, where you can watch artsy movies on a big screen, eat delicious food for a good price, and make new friends. An amazing find in an amazing city.

Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen, shorthand MØ, is back with a punchy, multi-layered and polished album - one of those rare gems that sound just as great in your headphones as they do on the dancefloor.

KLIK festival is a visually arresting spotlight on the best animated short films of the year. This weekend we went and saw the annual closing event - click on to see our picks!

Starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy and directed by La La Land's Damien Chazelle, First Man is a beautiful retelling of the Apollo program that aims for the moon and reaches it with only a few small hiccups.

This weekend, Roest (rust), one of the most interesting semi-spontaneous local open-air bars in Amsterdam, closed its doors after one last big party. Yours truly brought a camera!

Could a more inclusive circular economy be the solution for our capitalistic woes? And are second-hand markets like the one at IJ-hallen actually what we need? I took a stroll through Europe's biggest flea market to find out.

Beck Hansen's latest studio album came out exactly one year ago. The main single's video - directed by Edgar Wright and starring Alison Brie - has finally been widely released. The perfect occasion to revisit one of the funkiest albums of 2017!

A very personal post filled with pictures from one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. Click on to ✈

Cary Fukunaga's latest Limited Series is a 4-hour-journey through the human mind that will leave you baffled, confused, amazed and floored. Visually brilliant, poignant, well-made and the first real must watch from Netflix this quarter.

Erik Poppe's widely anticipated piece is an incredibly important movie, carried by a few strong performances and some brilliant photography, shot over a single, 72-minute-long take. Be warned - it will take your breath away.

While Metric's seventh studio album fails to impress, it still carries enough punches and standout singles to land a spot in our monthly heavy rotation.

To conclude this short series about outstanding movies, here are the (in my opinion) 5 greatest features released in the last 25 years. Beautiful, emotional, inspiring masterpieces - read on to find out more!

Continuing the series on the best movies I've stumbled upon in my 25 years of watching, here's a few more outstanding gems featuring amazing directors, breath-taking performances, dazzling visual effects and brilliant plot twists.

Talking about movies has been one of the few constants in my life. After all, what's not to love? Movies are byte-sized dreams, ready to move and inspire us. Without further ado, here are the first 10 stunners!