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.

I am not really into writing commitments or resolutions for the new year. Because most of the time I ended up changing it in the middle, but I have seen some blog post from the small web sharing their own stuffs, and I thought It could be nice to try once again, so here is my (desired) plan 1. Studying some programming languages. As I wrote previously I have some interest in specific programming languages I don’t believe so much in this idea to learn one that could solve all your problems but just choose the best tool for the job (while I understand the idea of having just one or two tools that you need to know to solve most of your problems is a beautiful idea).

Well, this is my first status update in the blog, before I was writing some things based on a specific topic, as today I have many things happening but I don’t have the interest to go so much into details to explain what I am doing or thinking. So at least I want to give a time to describe briefly these things. Dreaming in Lisp In the past few months I have been exposed to the Lisp family language, first with Emacs Lisp (Elisp) and my curiosity for the language has increased, while Elisp only can be used inside Emacs, I was checking a more general programming language, from a long review it seems that Clojure and Common-Lisp are the most popular programming languages for that purpose.

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.

Probablemente si has leído esto desde hace un tiempo, has notado de que usado consistentemente Vi para todo tipo de edición de textos, desde mi blog hasta cuando me toca picar un poco de código, y la verdad es que me gusta harto vim, a tal punto que busqué formas de extender sus bindings en otros programas e incluso en mi administrador de ventanas Sway y dwm. Pero por una curiosidad que venía creciendo decidí probar otro programa que a menudo se le tiende a comparar: Emacs