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April 2025: projects2
May 2, 2025
This month I've done a lot of programming. I ended up working more on my own code hosting platform. I call it projects2. Why two? Because it's my second...
March 2025: Snowboarding
April 2, 2025
This month I have done nothing related to programming in my spare time. Partly because it is snowboard season. I'm most interested in continuing work on my...
Newsletter February 2025: A New Code Hosting Platform?
March 19, 2025
When I came across XXIIVV in last month, I immediately got interested in the idea that in order to be able to run our software many, many years from now, we...
January 2025: Inspired and Motivated by New Laptop and Reading
February 1, 2025
New Laptop I got a new laptop this month. It was almost 10 years since I bought my previous one. I mainly needed a new one to be able to smoothly browse...
December 2024: Advent of Code
January 12, 2025
December is the month of Advent of Code. I had told myself not to participate this year because I know I get completely consumed by the problems and it has a...
November 2024: A New Project
December 8, 2024
Compared to last month, this month I did some programming in my spare time. I had fewer commitments, and my mind started thinking about various programming...
October 2024: Primitive Obsession?
November 3, 2024
Normally I do something related to programming in my spare time every month. I read something that I find interesting and want to share. Or I have some...
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
August 1, 2024
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
July 2, 2024
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
May 4, 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
April 4, 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
March 2, 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
August 3, 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
July 6, 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
June 13, 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...