Photo by MChe Lee on Unsplash Here is a short story. When I was studying computer science at the university, there was a course with this borderline weirdo teacher teaching algorithmic. He really was a brain. That wasn’t an easy course, and it had a bad reputation among students. At the beginning of the semester,... Continue Reading →
From an Idea to a Blog Post — How I do it
To all bloggers and writers out there, find out how I make it all happen: writing many posts a day, nearly everyday. From an Idea to a Blog Post. #writing #blogging #blogger #writer #tools #tips
Introducing my Blogger Workflow
If you are a blogger like me, you may find it interesting to learn about what tools other bloggers are using. If you are not (yet) a blogger, you’ll see what it takes to start and thrive! As a long time blogger, I’m happy to share with you all the details about my workflow. You’ll... Continue Reading →
My Blogging Year in Review
For my blogging year in review, I want to look back and write about a few milestones, about what went well and what didn’t. Quite a lot happened as I restarted this blog after three years on hiatus. Let’s talk numbers I wrote and published 461 posts for a total of more than 95 000... Continue Reading →
Less is more?
This graph shows my posting activities in the last year. Darker squares mean more posts. See the trend? Over the last four months, my posting activities decreased quite a bit for many reasons. First, the lack of time does explain in part the trend change. Time is the most scarce resource in my life right... Continue Reading →
Fighting Facebook et al.
Fighting Facebook takes many forms. As they threaten so many parts of our society, our response has to be diversified. Molly Lambert writing on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mollylambert/status/1189229640692518912?s=20 Brent Simmons response goes in the same vein I mine. It is a matter of choice and willingness. Big corporations like Facebook not only are a challenge for democracy,... Continue Reading →
What is success? I think this picture is so representative of my blogger's life.
Feeling the Pressure of my Blogger’s life
Blogger's life ain't always easy. Today, I'm feeling the pressure of my blogger's life, the pressure to write something to maintain my streak of one blog post per day. That is not an easy thing to maintain. I'm always working on a few blog posts in advance. But today, stars are not perfectly aligned. Because... Continue Reading →
Combining Ulysses with Things
As I recently wrote, I’m now using Ulysses for my writing needs. Before that I was using WordPress.app. For To-do, I’m using Things on the Mac and on iOS. I recently read an article from The Sweet Setup on how you can combine Ulysses with Things in order to help you manage your writing tasks.... Continue Reading →