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Ever since I started highlighting text on my Kindle, then my PocketBook, and also the old-fashioned way with pen and paper, I have been trying to store those highlights in my digital garden — which serves as a second brain for recalling insights from books

I’ve been using Claude for almost two years now, and about six months ago I switched completely to claude-code for most coding activities.

Update 2026-04-17: A Reddit comment pointed out a cleaner approach: instead of advising ghub--token directly, you can register a proper auth-source backend.

This is a collection of book summaries for the books I read during April-December 2025.

Although it has been a while since my last post here, I don’t want to break with the tradition of doing my annual review (make sure to check out the previous years: 2021, 2023, 2024).

There is certainly some frustration with productivity tools that feel more like a burden than a boost.

Every PKMS/BASB needs a search functionality.

Continuing with my tradition of quarterly book summaries, here are my reflections on the books I’ve read between January and March this year.

Continuing with my tradition of quarterly book summaries, here are my reflections on the books I’ve read between October and December last year.

As another year comes to an end, it’s time for my annual review (check out 2021, 2023) - a tradition where I reflect on the past twelve months, examining what I’ve learned, how I’ve grown, and whether I’ve managed to stick to my goals.

Introduction # Since I’ve started developing in Golang I didn’t really use the debugger.

Keeping with the theme I’ve started a few months ago, here are my own book summaries for the books I’ve read between May and September this year.

In the midst of the Corona pandemic back in 2021, I joined the team at Cashlink, a company focused on tokenization and digital securities.

Inspired by Eli Bendersky’s book reviews, here are my summaries for the books I’ve read between January and April 2024. 📚 Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant I’ve received this book shortly after reading The Scout Mindset w…

Why vanilla?

I feel somewhat ashamed for not doing a review last year.

Introduction # In the last post, I’ve used PlantUML to draw things like groups, accounts, and clusters.

A few days ago I came across Cal Newport’s episode on “The failure of Cybernetic Productivity " where he talked about a term I’ve never heard before: Cybernetic Productivity.

I regularly listen to the podcast Lage der Nation which offers transcripts to premium subscribers on their website plus.ladernation.org.

Basics # I’ve become a huge fan of PlantUML even before I came across the concept of “documentation as code” I also code for presentations.

Introduction # As a Security Architect, my role encompasses reviewing existing architectures as well as designing brand new ones from scratch.

The stage for the keynote Introduction # During this year’s keynote, the main focus was on the velocity companies - and especially start-ups - need in order to bring their products to the market, highlighting the importance of agility.

Motivation # Usually when I consume my daily news feeds, I prefer to keep context switching to a minimum.

Motivation # CDK is a great framework by AWS that allows you to define cloud infrastructure as code (IaC).

I must admit “Fooled by Randomness” was a hard to digest food for my brain.

Imagine you’d ask an oracle (like the one in the Matrix movie) how much time left you have on this planet before the inevitable takes place - you die.

Do you feel invisible when you’re in the city and everybody just walks by without any eye contact, completely ignoring your existence?

More than a year ago I started working on a side project born out of the furstration I had with buffer, ifttt and zapier.

Ten years ago, in December 2012, I have officially Before that I had several student jobs and internships which at least from most recruiters view don’t count in as professional experience. started my career in the (Information) Security industry.

What do have clean, layered, hexagonal hexagonal, onion architecture and ports & adapters in common?

In the first part of this series I’ve outlined the main factors for moving my digital garden / braindump / Zettelkasten to org-roam and which factors have facilitated this decision.

In my previous post I’ve writen about knowledge work and how its output cannot be measured in a linear manner.

I’ve recently stumbled over this wired article [1] where the benefits and drawbacks of having a 4-day work week were conclued from scientific research and “experiments” done in the field.

In the first part of this series I’ll outline the main factors why I’ve decided to move my digital garden / braindump / Zettelkasten to org-roam and which factors have facilitated this decision.

Summary # Figure 1: “Building Microservices (2nd edition)” along my notes During my overall IT carreer I came across different architectural design patterns where oppinions differ on the question if they’re the right ones for the problems/challanges teams…

Since my last post on reddit asking for some help regarding Emacs and TiddlyWikis REST API I gained some elisp knowledge I’d like to share.

In my last post I wrote about RSS/Atom and how these technologies can be used to declutter your digital life and reduce your exposure to the attention economy.

Digital Minimalism # A few days after I have started working on this post, I begun reading Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism book and quickly realized how both topics interrelate to each other.

Back in 2017 I remember people sitting together and doing pre-workout breathwork before some trainig session (Calisthenics).

Figure 1: Digital Minimalism: I’ve started with the audio book but then I ordered a physical copy for further reading.

Last year I’ve done some experiments with the Beamer LaTex class which you can use whenever you want to export an ORG document to a Beamer presentation.

After last year’s pandemic shock, this year has brought more hope and motivation to people.

I always use to say: “Software currently rules the world.”

Bye Bye Scout24!

After finishing my last post on how to convert getpocket links to epub I was thinking a lot about my current workflow, how I manage to capture everything that might be interesting for me and save it for later use.

Read, organize, archive # I heavily use getpocket to collect articles and save them for later reading.

[Update 2021-06-22] If you’re more interested in the Tiddlywiki aspect of this post you can also check this Tiddlywiki Google Groups thread.

Introduction # With the recent success of Github actions you can automate lots of things whenever something in your repos changes, e.g. automatically generate static HTML content (using hugo) and push it to some repository for which GitHub Pages has been…

Hello from the other side # If you read this post today you might have noticed there was a huge break since the last post.

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