A few days ago I run into Carin Meier post titled Vector Symbolic Architectures in Clojure. Beside this point that I can really relate to […] I don’t have a lot of free time. When I do get a few precious hours to do some coding just for me, I want it it to be small enough for me to fire up and play with it in a REPL on my local laptop and get a result back in under two minutes. […] ...
I was curious, so I finally created an account. I’m still not sure what is the best server to join, and I’m not going to run my own instance, but I ended with @xllora@mastodon.social.
I have recently been using tools like Athens research and LogSeq for connected note taking (see my previous post). A key thing you may want to check before choosing the one you will use is the lincese of each. As I write these lines Athens is friendlier if you plan to use it for work. LogSeq one, unfortunately, not so much. However if you plant to use it for fun, LogSeq is feature packed, the team keeps delivering and outstanding product, and the new publishing capability is great. ...
Personal knowledge management has been getting popularity as a term in the recent years. However, there has been quite a bit of research across different fields on how to organize, manage and grow your knowledge. The presentation below is a quick intro with some examples. You can download the presentation above as a PDF here.
Here we go! It has been a while. I finally got around getting rid of WordPress for this site. The amount of functionality and machinery required to just render a simple blog started to show its age. I just wanted a simple, easy to update, website. Eventually, I settled for Hugo, a fast framework to create websites. Moving out of WordPress required the following steps: Go to the managed WordPress installation and get an export of all posts and pages. Download all the files uploaded that are part of the site content. After multiple failed attempts, blog2md turned out to be the tool that got me the farther. It converted the export into a collection of markdown files for each post and page. It also output files for contents, but I discarded those since most of them were old ping backs. Then, quite a bit of manual clean up. Shortcodes for embedded content etc. needed to be converted to Hugo’s shortcodes. I could have automated, but the numbers were small and I also wanted to reread all the content. Move the uploads to the right place and make sure all markdown correctly links to it. At this point, I was able to create and bring up the Hugo development server locally using some random theme so I could see a working version of how the site would work. After this milestone, yes, a few more hours cleaning up content but now everything was quick to iterate. Once all the content was ready, time to move to the looks. ...