Martin's Blog

Like many others I use multiple systems and want to retain a consistent environment.

to only add items to your init files you understand and document them?

I wrote about it a while back but meanwhile some tools no longer exist and I stopped using some others.

This post is in response to Ellane’s invitation to answer eight questions about using plain text files.

A few years ago I came across the Johnny.Decimal system to organise your life and I find it really useful to organise stuff at work.

Most people interested in security will have heard about the threat quantum computers pose to currently used encryption.

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Note taken on [2025-07-31 Thu 21:03] Added icon settings in agenda A while back the Emacs Carnival started and July’s topic is writing experience.

I use scoop as a packet manager to install software on Windows.

I use now Native graphical Emacs on Android since several months on my tablet and phone.

Note taken on [2025-04-04 Fri 14:02] Small update: include a notification icon I’m a happy user of the native graphical Emacs on Android since several months now.

As part of Emacs 30 Emacs will run natively on Android.

I use Duplicati to backup data to a Nextcloud instance via WebDav which works reliable.

Note taken on [2024-12-07 Sat 14:57] Updated elisp code added.

One of the side effects of my recent changes to this website is that it no longer needs external scripts or the like.

It may seem odd to use a phone for managing a web site but I find it sometimes useful and definitely cool to have the option.

If you came to this website before you will notice a quite different design now.

Since several years I prefer to generate documents from plain text which I then export to other formats.

Johnny ‘Decimal’ Noble has created a compelling system to organise your life.

It’s been quite some time since I wrote this post and it’s somewhat outdated so I decided to update it.

In the last months I started using Logseq as a digital note-taking tool mostly for journaling.

Recently there is a lot of buzz around “personal knowledge management” (PKM) or even building a so-called “second brain” which among other things means to collect and process knowledge often with the promise to make it easier to produce content.

Hardly a day goes by without news coverage of a high-profile data breach or successful attack.

I made two small changes to this blog: I removed the disqus comment functionality.

Long time ago I studied math finishing with a PhD.

Intention I start this site to collect my thoughts on various topics and document things as I learn them.

In this post I want to share how I configure Visual Studio Code to support my note-taking and handling of task items within them.

I suppose everyone needs to track the things they need to do.

At my previous company I had published a few blog posts and always thought “it’s a pity that the are gone now” since I still believe in the content.

I use ssh a lot also on Windows for example to connect to Github or connect to Linux servers in the cloud and elsewhere.

This is a text I posted some years ago on Linkedin.

As I mentioned before I started using the fantastic note-taking tool Dendron a while back.

Since a few months I’m an excited user of Dendron a note-taking and knowledge management tool based on VSCode and use it with git to synchronise between different machines and mobile devices.

At first glance company culture and team culture seem to be obvious topics.

This blog runs on hugo so I try to make use of hugo features.

Why yet another blog?

Still some years ago many security professionals considered the cloud as a mostly dangerous and risky environment better to be avoided.

Last week I came across Upptime which is a very cool tool to monitor uptime and performance of websites.