I’m a diary-keeper, music maker, design researcher, and community builder living and working in Amsterdam. Thank you for taking the time to visit my home on the Internet. This website is an online diary; a scavenger hunt of unfinished thoughts, polished ideas, and snapshots in various formats.

I taught myself to build websites as a 90s kid and have made an effort — in varying degrees of commitment, skill, and intensity — to share slices of my life on the web ever since. I believe in an Internet that is whimsical, creative, honest, and expansive.

My time in University centred around comparative literature and theology, and to this day, everything is a text to me. Eventually, I found my way into the tech industry, where I’ve been working across engineering, product, and design for twenty years. Learn more about my work on LinkedIn.

I live in Amsterdam with Anja, Lemonade and Zev. I’m an Afropean, queer, non-binary, sober, neurodivergent first-generation University graduate. I have the immense privilege of waking up every day feeling 8+, with a labrador-like enthusiasm for life, not in spite but because of what wasn’t. When I’m not at work, you can find me out cycling, exploring Amsterdam, making music, writing, reading weird short fiction and diaries, finding and mixing cassette tapes, gardening, and doing my darnedest to connect with people in whom I can see myself.

I’m of Angolan-Santomean and Dutch descent, hailing from enslaved grandparents on one side, and a long line of loud, burgundian band geeks on the other (with an ancestral storyline that is featured in the Dutch Holocaust war documentation archive). Untangling, rebraiding, and reimagining what that means about who I am is a daily exercise. I grew up in the narrow tail-end of the Netherlands, bike rides away from both Belgium and Germany.

My Xhosa name was inspired by Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindziswa. Had I come out a boy, you would’ve had to call me Stevie Wonder Waleson Geene. You’re welcome.