Lessons Learned from Journaling with Emacs org-journal-mode

As I delve into the intricacies of Emacs and its powerful org-mode ecosystem, I’ve discovered that org-journal has transformed my daily note-taking and task management workflow. Looking at the configuration shared, there are several valuable insights worth highlighting for anyone looking to enhance their personal knowledge management system. The Power of Daily Granularity One of the most impactful lessons I’ve learned is the importance of splitting journals into smaller, more manageable chunks. The configuration sets up org-journal with daily entries rather than maintaining one massive file for an entire year’s worth of thoughts and tasks. This approach offers several benefits: ...

March 28, 2025 · 3 min · Manuel Herrmann

The Rust Programming Language and the Advent of Code 2018

I recently got reminded about AdventOfCode2018. Be sure to check it out before end of december. Till now i did the challenges in rust, perl, bash - no specific language - just depending on the time i have. If you have plenty of time, the challenges from the last years are still available. Additionally i was looking a little into the programming language rust. ...

December 7, 2018 · 3 min · Manuel Herrmann

Hand written letters from 1941 and neural networks

As another side project i am currently trying to convert a letter into computer readable text just from a scanned image. ...

May 20, 2017 · 2 min · Manuel Herrmann

The official Harpoon page went online

The official Harpoon website is now online and available at https://harpoon.0x17.de/. ...

January 16, 2017 · 1 min · Manuel Herrmann

Pixel Animations

I’m trying to learn more about pixel animations, which could help to build some basic sprites for a small game that could happen sometime later in my life. Currently i’m trying to reproduce some of the tutorials from saint11, which can be found here. ...

January 12, 2017 · 1 min · Manuel Herrmann

Harpoon: Current State

Harpoon is a flexible chat client for common protocols - written in C++ - and will stay online when you aren’t. You will get push notifications for private messages when you are on the run. Here are some screenshots of the current state: ...

October 17, 2016 · 1 min · Manuel Herrmann

reboot

This is a reboot of my blog. Contents will follow :)

October 17, 2016 · 1 min · Manuel Herrmann