TL, DR: If Johnny Decimal didn’t work for you, try my approach. I struggled for a long time with the disorganization of my documents. Finding and moving around files was interrupting my workflow too often. After discovering Johnny Decimal there were some improvements, but I wasn’t satisfied yet. While reading…

TL, DR: Download the spreadsheet from here. 🧮 On April’s fools 2017 Reddit launched r/place, a social experiment with simple rules: There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something…

An Obsidian vault can be versioned efficiently with git, as it consists mostly of markdown files. The right plugin automates committing and pushing to a remote. Here is how to do it with GitHub. Set up the GitHub repository Create a new repository and set the visibility to private, unless you plan on sharing your…

14 September 2022 TL, DR: 🤨😠📕🗑️ I recently got The obstacle is the way by Ryan Holiday, and it was awful. The book is about how to overcome difficulties by embracing them. While some ideas are good, the narrative on how to act on them is flawed. The book is…

26 August 2022 TL, DR: 🖱️🍕🤓 I recently saw The Net, a 1995 thriller starring Sandra Bullock. It is enjoyable, as long as you don’t question the baddies’ actions. If not, you will keep wondering “Wait, why didn’t they just…?”. The strength of the movie is its depiction of the…

I had a first world problem. While applying for projects, many recruiters ask for the CV in Word format. They want to import it in their system or adapt it to a standard template. But I don’t have my CV in docx, because I wrote it in LaTeX with the…

I started studying decentralized finance for a potential project opportunity. Here is what I learnt while creating my first bitcoin wallet. ⚠️ Do additional research if you plan to store a significant amount of bitcoins in your wallet. In my examples I am ignoring several recommended precautions. ⚠️ If you…

Getting the html source of a webpage is easy with Python. With requests it can be achieved in one line. This works well as long as the content of the page is static. For some dynamic pages no useful information can be shown without running scripts. The solution is…

26 March 2022 My website is created with Jekyll and I recently added Google Analytics, which uses cookies which require the consent of the visitor in the European Union. I added a consent banner only afterwards, so I might have broken the law for a couple of weeks. While I…