Drive by Daniel Pink
Drive was a book that I started to read a long time ago. But for whatever reason I got sidetracked and it got left untouched on my bedside table. I did not…
How I used ffmpeg to create time-laps videos on my Mac
I have always been stunned by the beautiful time-laps videos of clouds slowly rolling by on a beautiful blue sky. Or why not a building project slowly taking form by having hours…
The SELF journal – a review
A couple of years ago I came across a special notebook. It is not a notebook of the normal fashion but more a combination of a notebook and a calendar. The reason…
The Pomodoro Technique
Pomodoro means Tomato in Italian. The Pomodoro Technique is a way to eat raw tomatoes without getting tomato juice and seeds on your checks… no, just kidding. The Pomodoro Technique is a…
What is Mastodon
“Mastodon is a free and open-source self-hosted social networking service. It allows anyone to host their own server node in the network, and its various separately operated user bases are federated across…
Getting Emacs and Spacemacs on the Mac
Since I started to use Linux many many years ago, I have been exposed to many different text editors. In the beginning I used Midnight Commander (mc) and the built-in editor of…
Adding YubiKey 2FA to WordPress
A certain amount of paranoia is good for you! Even if you are using secure and unique passwords someone could get into to your systems if they would get hold of it.…
The desktop was not ready for Linux
A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about me trying out Debian on one of my laptops to figure out if it was something for me. I have been…
Social Media Strike!
This weeks post was supposed to be about my Linux on the desktop/laptop test, but I ran into something quite interesting so I have to push that topic to the next post.…
Thoughts from the GTD Summit 2019
I am writing the draft of this blog post as I am travelling out of Amsterdam and the Netherlands after spending a couple of days here to meet a few of the…
Ungoogleing the blog
When you browse around the web you are constantly being monitored. You can protect yourself a bit by using various browser add-ons like uBlock Origin (firefox, chrome), HTTPS Everywhere (firefox, chrome) and…