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September 2024: Bash Redirects and Reading

October 14, 2024

This month I read How to Use a Zettelkasten to Write Stories Packed with Emotion. It inspired me to write something using that technique. The topic that came...

August 2024: Smart Notes and Blogging

September 1, 2024

In August I had my last week of summer vacation. I read a book that made me want to improve my note taking tool, I did some programming on hobby projects,...

July 2024: Note Making Re-Visited

July means vacation. Vacation means more time for recreational activities and working on things I enjoy. For the recreational part, I've spend a lot of time...

June 2024: Quines and Smalltalk

I subscribe to Avdi's newsletter because I find some of his writing and links interesting. I was clicking around on his site from one of the links in a...

Newsletter April 2021

This is what I’ve been up to in April 2021: I published 3 new videos where I hack on Smart Notes: Smart Notes Hacking Session #10: End-To-End Test Framework...

Newsletter March 2021

This is what I’ve been up to in March 2021: I recorded and published 7 videos where I hack on Smart Notes: Smart Notes Table Feature Session 2: Event...

Newsletter February 2021

This is what I've been up to in February 2021: I recorded and published two videos where I hack on Smart Notes. In the first I fix a bug and in the second I...

Newsletter January 2021

February 2, 2021

This is what I’ve been up to in January 2021: I posted a video demoing my note taking application. I have a few ideas of things I would like to improve in...

Newsletter December 2020

January 1, 2021

This is what I’ve been up to in December 2020: I continued work on the note taking application. I added the remaining editing capabilities and also added a...

Newsletter November 2020

December 3, 2020

This is what I’ve been up to in November 2020: I continued work on the prototype of the note taking application. I added navigation support and worked on the...

Newsletter October 2020

November 11, 2020

This is what I’ve been up to in October 2020: I continued work on the prototype of note taking application. I made the lines between notes look nicer: I...

Newsletter September 2020

October 3, 2020

This is what I've been up to in September 2020: I upgraded the configuration for my Kinesis Advantage 2 keyboard. I am planning on writing a blog post about...

Newsletter August 2020

September 13, 2020

This is what I've been up to in August 2020: I read about Dango. It is an example of a universal document type. It interested me because it seems related to...

Newsletter July 2020

This is what I've been up to in July 2020: I read Atomic Habits by James Clear and blogged about the key takeaway that I got from reading it: the two-minute...

Newsletter June 2020

I read parts of Let's Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw. It was interesting and it would be fun to try to implement the described language using RLMeta. I...

Newsletter May 2020

I created a poster showcasing RLMeta and wrote about it in a blog post. I am happy that I was able to improve both clarity and speed of RLMeta. I started...