Personal blog (page 7 of 8)

This is my personal blog. You can subscribe to my feed or look through all the posts on the archive. You can find links to other blogs I follow on my blogroll.

Ship scrappy

The only choice is to launch before you’re ready. Before it’s perfect. Before it’s 100% proven to be no risk to you. At that moment, your resistance says, “don’t ship it, it’s crappy stuff. We don’t ship crap.” And it’s true that you shouldn’t ship work that’s hurried, sloppy or... Read more

Switching to a password manager

Before I learned about password managers, less than a year ago, having all my passwords on the same place sounded like a really bad idea—if someone managed to get access to "that place", they could log in to all my accounts, to my online identity. As I learned about security... Read more

Creating a dark theme

The first contact I had with HTML and CSS was about two years ago, when I created my first website along with a friend who already had some experience with them, as well as with JavaScript. We used a premade theme (based on Bootstrap), so I didn't really learn much... Read more

Upgrading to privacy-conscious providers

I have been reading a lot about decentralization and not depending too much in one company in the past six months and I realized how much I relied on Google: my email, all my files, contacts, calendars, pictures... Most of my data was stored on their servers. This was inconvenient... Read more

My note taking app: Joplin

Two years ago I had an iPhone and, back then, the native "Notes" app worked pretty well for me. However, when I changed to Android I had some trouble finding a similar app or a different one that would fit my needs. For some time I used Google Keep, but... Read more