In this fifth post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to present the key aspects of my minimalist approach to handle non-actionable items with Obsidian. The discussion around how to select one app or another can be found in the third post of the series, where I concluded that Obsidian meets most of the requirements for most people to manage non-actionable items, including me....

In this fourth post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to present the key aspects of my minimalist approach to handle actionable items in GNU Emacs. Disclaimer: To use a minimalist Emacs setup we need to be in a Zen mental state I call Practical Emacs, and avoid at all cost to enter the Hacking Emacs dark-side all of us have inside....

In this third post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I’m going to jump on the wheel and tell you what exact applications you need. However, before I would like to tell you some truths No application is going to make our work, no application is going to put our shit together, no application is going to make us stand up and say: Here’s what I am going to do tomorrow because it will serve to achieve this goal I have, and here’s what I’m not going to do....

In this second post of the series “Building a Second Brain with Emacs and Obsidian” I will present the key ideas of Getting Things Done and Building a Second Brain methodologies, at least those which resonate with me. We are going to explore their limitations, and how both integrate and extend to eliminate these limitations....

For some of us there is no way around it, we simply don’t feel comfortable with any app out there for personal knowledge management. There is always some small detail that make us uncomfortable, and therefore we search for an alternative that solves it, we search for the perfect app someone else has succeed using....

A few months ago I wrote, perhaps a bit prematurely, about how to solve some problems I was having with the ProtonVPN app on Linux (and the free plan). The solution proposed there was to move away from the app to use an OpenVPN configuration file they provide, and some other tweaks needed to avoid IP leaks....

Today I was writing this new hire me section for the blog, because I will soon have to start seriously looking for a new job, and when describing my love story with coding I went a little bit long, so I decided to put it here, as a post, and link to it from the hire me section....

This is not a post criticizing social media, on the contrary, it’s intention is to show my journey from being completely opposed to them, up to the recent date I understood why they are not completely evil. In summary, what changed in me was the angle, the point of view, from which I watched them....