From August I have been participating ocassionaly in some woodworking workshops, the experience so far has been quite interesting and fun, the teachers are nice people, while also patient with my almost zero manual skills. Obviously every workshop has been in japanese, so that add another challenge for me while learning the fundamentals of this craft, but also I could feel the joy of dealing with something new that open new possibilities and experiences.

ENGLISH I am not a big fan of spiritual apps, these things are more a distraction for me, I’d prefer books or rosaries for its simplicity. However, there are some prayers like the Liturgy of the Hours that are a bit difficult to do, but with some support of an app could You could deal with the complexity of the rite more effectively. Among the Catholics there are some popular apps out there like Hallow, but are closed source, offer two many unnecesary features (like listen to the voice of some popular pop culture figure), are not free or you require constantly connection to internet to access the content.

A few weeks ago I was playing around with Gnus, I don’t remember Why I stop using it but I just switched back to Elfeed, and before that I also spent my time with Newsticker, I wasn’t convinced completely about the last one, so seriously start using other unix tools for reading news, like Newsraft. Just few weeks ago the Elfeed’s author announced that finally stop using Emacs in favor of Vim, and he vibecode his own solution called Elfeed2.

These days I have been considering seriously to keep improving my Japanese while using most of the Emacs tools and ecosystem, the main reason for that is because I just want to stay focus as much as I can, avoiding context switching and having most of my sources on my pc using the tool I like it. For one side, I use elfeed to suscribe to some Japanese Youtube channels and blogs, I play the videos using mpv.

Self-hosting my own git server Few months ago I just decided to get my own vps for self hosting few things, I am not a sysadmin by trade, so it’s a bit of a challenge to deal with a linux server, but the reward is huge, I can’t think in a more useful thing that you can learn from the tech world than the skill of managing servers for your own services (and maybe family and friends if you think you are capable of).

Trying Newsticker and other built-in tools in Emacs After almost 1 year that I decided to try Emacs, It feels like I find the way computing should be done, and I have to say Emacs really catch my interest enough to keep using it for more time. I was a vim/neovim user for almost 3 years, I still use it sometimes, I loved it so much that I tried to bring the entire unix philosophy with the vim spirit on my computing, I could do that using other terminal tools for that purpose (Suckless tools, Mutt, Newsboat, Tmux, Ncmpcpp, etc).

How to set up mail in emacs with mu4e I was considering for a while to use mail in emacs, I didn’t have the time to work on that, and I didn’t find a tutorial up to date to just copy and paste, there are some good sources and documentation, but the implementation was not that straightforward, it took me a couple of days to find why It didn’t work out my implementations.

He decidido retirarme del Fediverso Update 2025-07-09: Agregado unos links de otros artículos y edición de ciertas lineas. Desde hace unos meses terminé de convencerme de que el Fediverso, pero en especial el uso de los miniblogs (Pleroma, Mastodon, etc) no eran para mi y he decidido eliminar mi cuenta, probablemente si leiste mi post de sobre como migrando a Mastodon me sirvió para conocer una subcultura de geeks y hackers que me inspiraron a insertarme más en el mundo del software libre, si bien todavía mantengo mi apreciación por la experiencia, he decidido continuar mi camino por otras sendas.

Durante un par de semanas incorporé una nueva herramienta en Emacs y en mi “workshop digital”, he estado usando la herramienta Denote y probando el método Zettelkasten en mi día a día, aquí compartiré algunas experiencias sobre este método, tal vez te ayude a ti a ver si te interesa incorporar este método en tu día a día. ¿Qué es el método Zettelkasten? Para ir directo al grano el método tiene un proposito, que es construír una compleja red de conocimiento personal y que este sea facil de administrar.

Tras unas semanas entendiendo como funciona Emacs, leyendo tutoriales, y descubriendo como otros usuarios usan este software para sus diversas necesidades, he llegado a tener una configuración que me hace sentir relativamente cómodo (obviamente siempre puedes buscar más comodidad al seguir configurandolo, pero todavía estoy aprendiendo). Aquí desglosaré mi init.el para quién busque inspiración, o simplemente quiera copiar el archivo, el cual tiene alrededor de 250 lineas de código.