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Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity

Discover why Obsidian isn't just another note-taking app, but a complete system for managing your knowledge, tasks, projects, and digital life.

Transform Information Chaos Into Knowledge Power - A Simple 10-Step Process

Most knowledge workers are drowning in information but starving for wisdom. Discover a simple yet powerful process to transform scattered information into meaningful knowledge and action.

Overcoming Perfectionism: How to Break Free from the Enemy of Progress

Discover how perfectionism hinders progress and learn practical strategies to overcome the fear of imperfection, boost productivity, and achieve your goals without getting stuck in the pursuit of flawlessness

Your habits and routines make you

Discover how your daily habits and routines shape your identity, success, and overall life outcomes.

The Must-Have Obsidian plugins for 2025

An overview of the best Obsidian plugins. Make sure to read this and try these out!

How to define and revisit your career goals

Learn how to define and revisit your career goals, align them with your life objectives, and create a fulfilling professional journey that optimizes for happiness and personal growth.

Career choices - A Story about Alignment and Cohesion

Make better career decisions, and live an happier life. An essay discussing how to make more fulfilling career choices, and pitfalls to avoid when making those.

The Power of Modern Knowledge Management for Business Professionals

Unlock your business potential with cutting-edge knowledge management strategies for enhanced productivity and decision-making

100 Days of Note-taking - Day 1

100 days of note-taking challenge - day 1

Pick a tool, and stick with it

Stop chasing the perfect tool—embrace the one that works well enough, use it for long enough, and focus on mastering it

Advice for people getting started with Knowledge Management and Writing

Many people quickly become overwhelmed when they get started with note-taking and knowledge management. Here's how to avoid that.

Obsidian Starter Kit Launch - I need YOU

Announcing the launch of the Obsidian Starter Kit on Product Hunt

How to create new content using your existing notes

Transform atomic notes into cohesive linear content with this step-by-step guide.

New Release: Obsidian Starter Kit 2.2.0

Release of v2.2.0 of the Obsidian Starter Kit, now including a powerful book management system

Interleaving books

Here's why you should read multiple books at once.

How I manage books and summaries in Obsidian

This is a tutorial explaining how to manage books and summaries in Obsidian, including how to create a list and a gallery of books

New Release: Obsidian Starter Kit 2.1.0

Release of v2.1.0 of the Obsidian Starter Kit

Overview of my Personal Knowledge Management System

Discover my Personal Knowledge Management System and get some inspiration to design a robust one for yourself.

How I Organize My Work As a Solo Founder

Discover how I organize my work as a solo founder using systems that boost productivity, focus, maintain balance, and help me achieve mental clarity and consistent progress.

Knowledge Worker Kit - Announcement

A product update for the Knowledge Worker Kit

How I synchronize and backup my Obsidian Notes

Discover effective methods to synchronize and backup your Obsidian notes. This comprehensive guide covers using Syncthing, Google Drive, GitHub, Backblaze, and local backups to ensure your notes are secure and accessible from any device.

How To Free Your Mind and Enhance Your Memory: Write To Forget, Not To Remember

Write more. Free your mind, and reduce cognitive load. Learn why writing to forget can help you remember what truly matters. Explore the benefits and techniques of building a personal knowledge base.

You Need a Fourth Place: A Space to Think

You need a place for deep thinking, a personal "sanctuary". A Fourth place. Here's why.

The Gradual Return On Investment of PKM

Discover why the true value of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) takes time to manifest and how patience can yield long-term leverage.

Breaking Down the Walls of Personal Information Silos. Towards Connected Knowledge

Why you need to break the walls of your Personal Information Silos to enable connected knowledge and unlock your full potential.

Unlocking Efficiency and Consistency in Note-Taking: The Power of Templates in Personal Knowledge Management.

Unlock the power of templates in note-taking and personal knowledge management

Embracing Fluidity in Knowledge Management: The Cattle Approach to Ideas

Transform your ideas into a thriving ecosystem! Embrace the Cattle approach to Personal Knowledge Management. Let ideas grow, merge, and flourish.

Closing Open Loops: The Key to a Calmer, More Productive Mind

Unlocking Mental Clarity and Peak Productivity by Mastering the Art of Closing Open Loops

The Power of Setting Achievable Goals: How Lowering the Bar Leads to Success

Exploring the transformative power of setting achievable goals, this blog post delves into the art of breaking down grand ambitions into manageable tasks to foster progress and reduce stress

Amplify the Signal, Not the Noise: The Power of Personal Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management can help you uncover and focus on what really matters.

How to Split Long Notes into Atomic Notes: A Comprehensive Guide

A comprehensive guide on splitting long notes into atomic notes within a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system, highlighting the benefits, and practical steps

In Defense of Using Fewer Tools

How Fewer Tools Can Enhance Personal Organization, Productivity, and Knowledge Management

My top 10 articles about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

Discover my 10 most popular articles about note-taking and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

Unlocking Potential: The Value of Transitioning from Analog to Digital

Unlock the Power of Digital: Transition from analog to digital for endless possibilities! Convert paper notes to a digital Personal Knowledge Management system, connect ideas, and harness the future of knowledge

The Art of Note Naming: Keys to Effective Knowledge Management

Unlock the full potential of your Knowledge Management system by mastering the art of crafting clear, concise, and organized note names – the secret to transforming your chaotic digital world into a seamlessly searchable, highly efficient repository of wisdom

Personal Organization 101

Do you feel disorganized? Overwhelmed? Lost? Drowned in a mess? Do you regularly forget tasks? Do you miss your deadlines? Do you lose your files? If any of those ring a bell, then you may need to read this!

How to connect ideas together

As you learn and grow, you'll accumulate more and more knowledge. While each piece is important, the relationships between ideas is, at least, as important as the ideas themselves.

Guarding Your Focus: Essential Strategies to Protect Your Attention

Attention is a prized currency. Basically, every company around you is trying to grab your attention to get a return on investment. What does it mean for lifelong learners and knowledge workers? What are the pitfalls to avoid and ways to leverage that to learn better and be more productive?

Why You Should Link Knowledge to Time

Knowledge and time are closely related. What is the relationship between those and what does it imply for lifelong learners and knowledge management? Let's find out!

On the Importance of Writing

Writing is an essential skill to develop if you want to reach “the next level” in your Knowledge Work career. Here's why.

The KISS principle

We should all apply the KISS principle to everything in our lives

The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian

Unlock the power of Obsidian with this ultimate beginner's guide, from setup to advanced note-taking and knowledge management techniques.

Why you need a Personal Organization System

The need for Personal Organization becomes clear once you start feeling overwhelmed. It may happen for many reasons. Let's explore some of those.

Introducing the Knowledge Worker Kit

Knowledge work is everywhere, and information keeps getting more and more overwhelming. The Knowledge Worker Kit and its private community are here to help!

The Crucial Role of Setting and Pursuing Goals

Clarity is not only about values, but also about knowing what your goals are. In this article, I want to explore the reasons why setting and pursuing goals is essential for personal and professional success.

Don't start exploring Personal Knowledge Management without reading this first

Essential insights and foundational Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) principles you need to know before you start.

Take less information in, but do more with it

If you struggle to filter the noise in your life and feel like you're not taking advantage of what you consume, then this article is for you.

How to fight against inertia to change the world

Changing the world requires knowing how to fight against inertia in all its shapes and forms. Here's how.

How to Capture Your Thoughts and Ideas

Discover how to capture all your ideas and insights. Never lose a great idea again!

How PKM and Note-Taking Tools Help Think More Effectively

Knowledge Management and Note-taking tools help think deeper and reach another level of focus.

There's a lot more to journaling than what most people think

There's a lot more to journaling than what most people think... I've been journaling for a number of years, and it has helped me tremendously! Here's why...

Automatically Move Notes in Obsidian

Avoid wasting time moving files around in Obsidian. Automate everything!

Announcing the Obsidian Starter Course

Discover the Obsidian Starter Course. A key starting point for your Knowledge Management journey with Obsidian

Understanding Eventual Reciprocity

Eventual reciprocity is a long-term game that can help you build better relationships, accumulate trust, social capital, reputation, and has unexpected benefits.

Continuous Note-Taking With Evergreen Notes

Note-taking/note-making is continuous. Keep coming back to your notes to improve them, instead of considering those as "final". Here's why.

On the importance of non-goals

Goals are key to progress, but non-goals are complementary, and help go in the right direction. Here's why.

Why all solopreneurs should write a journal

Explore how journaling can be a game-changer for solopreneurs, unlocking creativity, enhancing productivity, and guiding personal and business growth

Choose Active Learning over Learning Just in Case

Learning just in time and just in case are both useful. But there's a balance to be found, and strategic thinking to apply. Be mindful of what, why and how you learn.

How to communicate with your future self

Most people struggle to communicate with others. Sometimes they realize, sometimes they don't. But many would also benefit from better communicating with their future self. Here's why it matters, and how to do it.

Unlocking Founder Success: The Essential Guide to Journaling for Business Growth

Discover the transformative power of journaling for founders, unlocking creativity, strategic insight, and personal growth to propel your business forward.

Summary of what alcohol does to your body, brain and health

No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health. Here's why.

How I use daily notes

An overview of how I use daily notes and how I extract knowledge from those.

Be Grateful for the Small Things Too

Discover the transformative power of appreciating life's simple pleasures. Practice gratitude and find joy in the small things

Chasing Joy Over Career: Why Happiness Should Be Your Priority Now

Stop optimizing for money and status. Focus on happiness instead.

How to Prepare for the Future of Knowledge Work

Large Language Models are here to stay, and they might change everything. How can we prepare for the future of knowledge work?

Ten Personal Knowledge Management Practices to Explore and Master

Ten practices that you should explore to improve your Personal Knowledge Management skills

Mastering Atomic Notes: Unlock Efficiency and Knowledge Management

Discover the power of atomic notes with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to streamline your note-taking process, enhance learning efficiency, and build a robust personal knowledge management system.

Maximizing Daily Success: The Power of Focusing on One Goal Each Day

One goal per day is all you need. Transform your productivity, and focus.

Meeting with yourself

Meeting with yourself can profoundly impact your wellbeing, happiness and productivity. Don't miss out on the opportunity!

The Enduring Value of Timeless Concepts

Timeless concepts are safe bets when learning

It's Great to Participate in the Transformation (GPT)

Conversational AIs are here to stay. Learn how to use those to remain relevant

The poison of Perfectionism

Perfectionism is a poison. It's a disease that we need to understand and fight against. Here's why.

Content curation as a way to level up communities

Explore how content curation powers community growth and engagement by selectively organizing and sharing knowledge to foster connections and learning

Focus on things that don't change

Focus on things that don't change to build solid foundations and invest your time in the best possible way.

Introducing the IT Concepts Wall

Discover the IT Concepts Wall, a huge collection of resources about IT and Software Development.

Unlocking Your Learning Potential: The Essential Guide to Meta-Learning

Explore the transformative power of meta-learning and unlock the secrets to effective learning strategies with this comprehensive guide.

Optimism, pessimism and freedom

Optimists tend to find more creative solutions. Here's why.

Beyond Human Memory: Leveraging Tools for Thought (TfTs) to Enhance Reliability and Creativity

Explore how transcending human memory limitations with reliable tools for thought can significantly boost creativity, productivity, and innovation

How to Structure Your Daily Notes in Obsidian

Discover the ultimate guide on structuring daily notes in Obsidian to maximize productivity and clarity. Learn practical tips and strategies to organize your thoughts, tasks, and projects effectively

Showing Obsidian front matter using Dataview queries

How to use the dataview plugin to display the YAML front matter of Obsidian notes as a table

How to fight against decision fatigue

Our decision-making power is limited. Each day, it quickly depletes as we make decisions. Learn more about decision fatigue and discover tips to avoid it

Are my Thoughts Useful?

Thoughts are nothing more and nothing less than thoughts. We don't have to accept them as true. Read this to learn more about cognitive defusion.

Community Knowledge Management

Communities need specific Knowledge Management solutions. Here's why

Systems for health, intention, productivity, learning, knowledge, information management and control

How systems thinking can change your life

Keep the power to end things

Ending things is a superpower. Don't give it up too easily!

Why is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) useful

The key reasons why Personal Knowledge Management is useful

Effective note-taking tips

Top tips for effective note-taking

Note-taking vs Note-making

Taking notes and making notes are different but complementary. Learn about the difference and why you should care

A Place For What's On Your Mind

Free your mind from all those details. Learn how to manage the things that are on your mind.

Why Take and Make Notes

Discover how note-taking and note-making can transform stress into serenity, enhancing mental health, focus, and tranquility through effective journaling practices

The Capture Habit

Why capturing ideas and concepts can make a huge difference for your personal development and career

Avoiding Cognitive Overload

Close those tabs to regain mental resources and be more productive

Calm businesses are a viable path too

Startups and fast growth are not the only way. Creating a calm business is also a viable path to success

Saving and Restoring Mental Contexts to Improve Mental Health and Productivity

This article explores mental contexts and the importance of handling those properly to improve mental health and productivity

The Feynman Technique

Improve the way you Learn with the Feynman Technique, a simple approach to learn more effectively.

Why and How to Tag Your Notes

Tags are a great way to categorize, describe and track your notes. This post will show you how to approach tagging the notes in your PKM

Periodic Reviews for a Happier and More Productive Life

Discover how to leverage periodic reviews to achieve your goals and get more out of your life

Maps of Content (MoCs) for better Knowledge Graphs

Understand what Maps of Content (MoCs) are in the PKM ecosystem. Discover why they are useful and how they can help strengthen your Knowledge Graph

Boost Your Creativity With The Zettelkasten Method

Discover the Zettelkasten Method, one of the most powerful note-taking systems. With it, you will boost your productivity and creativity.

Organize Anything With The Johnny Decimal System

Discover how the Johnny Decimal system simplifies information organization, making data filing and retrieval simple, efficient, and intuitive

Organize Everything With The LIFT principle

Discover the LIFT principle and why you should apply it to better organize data, information and knowledge

Organize Anything With The PARA Method

Discover how the PARA method transforms digital chaos into structured clarity, revolutionizing your productivity and knowledge management.

Markdown introduction

Discover the Markdown syntax, what it is, how to use it, and why

Why you need a single source of truth for your PKM system

Having a single source of truth for all types of data in your PKM is key to a solid system

The mythical right time: Don't Wait to Chase Your Dreams

Waiting for the right time is an illusion. Let me tell you why

Introducing the Obsidian Starter Kit

Discover the Obsidian Starter Kit. It will help you get started with Obsidian with a solid and scalable organization system

It's later than you think

Time is of the essence. Time flies, and it's later than you think

25+ Years of Personal Knowledge Management. From Scattered Ideas to Connected Thoughts

In this post, I describe my entire Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system and its evolution over 25+ years

How to capture book notes and turn those into smart notes

How to capture thoughts, ideas, and knowledge to retain more from the books you read

Introducing the Personal Knowledge Management Library

Learn how to learn and explore Personal Knowledge Management with the PKM Library. Thousands of resources at your fingertips

Why you should take notes while reading non-fiction books

Discover how note-taking while reading non-fiction books can dramatically enhance your understanding and retention

The focusd community: Let's focus on Zen Productivity

Discover the focusd community, a space for people who want to be more focused and productive without burning out

My current Indie Hacking toolkit

Discover some of the tools I use as an Indie Hacker and creator

How to build a Product: From idea to code

How to go from an idea to an actual product. A story about product development

How to think logically

Learn what it means to think logically. Cultivate thought processes to help you better solve problems

Personal Knowledge Management organization

In this post, I dissect my Personal Knowledge Management system

An online community for lifelong learners

Discover the Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) community, a community for lifelong learners

Developer Career Paths

Discover developer career paths you can choose to pursue

Angular 13 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 13

Why Craftsmanship Matters

Craftsmanship has been around for ages, but why does it matter in software engineering?

How to Feel Better Every Day with an Evening Routine

Learn about the benefits of defining a clear evening routine to improve your well-being

How to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

Learn how to use Tailwind with Svelte and Nrwl NX

Journaling every day is powerful - Part 1: Introduction

Discover journaling and how it can help you live a happier, more fulfilling and more productive life

Journaling every day is powerful - Part 2: Going further

Problem-solving 101

Discover the most important problem-solving skills and techniques

Quality vs user satisfaction

Explore the intricate balance between delivering unparalleled quality and achieving user satisfaction, and why mastering both is key to success.

An online community for Software Crafters

A software development community for beginners, professional and artisans

Software professionals are crafters

On why Software Craftsmanship matters

How to get started in IT and grow as a Software developer

Learn how get started in IT, and how to grow as a software developer

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

What is the difference between software developers, engineers, coders, and programmers

What is software engineering

In this article, I'll share my personal take on the difference between software development and software engineering (SE). It is a personal opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. This content is part of my Dev Concepts series of books. So what is it about? Many

What is software development

A clear explanation about what software development is about

Angular 12 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 12

Why Tailwind's Just-In-Time (jit) mode is a game-changer and how to use it right now

Learn how to migrate to Tailwind 2, and enable just-in-time for applications and Storybook

How Angular applications start

Discover how Angular applications start and what main.ts does

Lazy loading Angular applications

How to delay the execution of your Angular app

Welcome on my brand new blog

First post on my new blog

21 months in and 80K views later

How my failed startup experience led to 80K views in a month

Configuring and using the Apollo client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Learn how to integrate the Apollo GraphQL client in a Next.js TypeScript application

Design Sprint Cheat Sheet

A cheat sheet for Design Sprint 2.0

How User Interface, User Experience and Customer Experience relate

Learn about UI, UX and CX

Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost.

I’ve been working for ~20 months on my current project, spend 2K hours on it, and “lost” 200K € by not doing something else. That project is not ready yet. Here’s the story behind it

How to create a table of contents with HTML and CSS

Learn how to use HTML and CSS to build a table of contents

Create Office add ins with Angular and Nrwl NX

A modern way to develop Office plugins using Angular and Nrwl NX

Angular 11 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 11

How to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Learn how to mock TypeScript method overloads with Jest

Software Development Concepts e-book collection

A collection of e-books to turn you into a full-stack developer

How to write simple code: Avoid the Pyramid of Doom

Here's how to avoid nesting code needlessly

Creating custom class-validator validators for MomentJS

Learn how to custom validators for MomentJS

Histoire courte — Zoey & Jenny — Partie 1

Zoey est de retour

Team management tips: 10 more ways to kill a team

Teams are way more fragile than you can imagine. Here are ten more things that can demolish one

Team management tips: 10 ways to kill a team

Great teams are hard to craft but much easier to break. Here are 10 things to avoid

How to manage junior team members: Don't leave them alone!

Junior team members should never be left alone

How to succeed with online writing. The journey from 4K to 30K views per month. Lessons learned

How to succeed with online writing. Discover my lessons learned

Angular roadmap analysis

Exploring the roadmap of Angular

What's new in RxJS 7

Exploring everything new with RxJS 7

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 4: Branches

Let’s now learn about Git branches!

Angular 10 in Depth

Everything you need to know about Angular 10

Translating the MatPaginator Angular Material component

The MatPaginator component of Angular Material can be translated, but it requires a specific approach

Typesafe checks against TypeScript interface property names at runtime

Learn how to safely use TypeScript interface property names at runtime

How to implement input validation with NestJS

Learn how to validate incoming data with NestJS

Introduction to TypeScript

What is TypeScript? Let's find out!

Loop through a TypeScript enum

Discover how to iterate over the keys and values of a TypeScript enum

Force change detection on third-party Angular components using ChangeDetectorRef

Discover how to force change detection on third-party Angular components with the ChangeDetectorRef

Removing Moment.js locales from your Angular app JS bundles

Reduce the bundle size by removing unused momentjs locales

Analyzing Your Angular app JS bundles

How to analyze the JS bundles of your Angular applications and fix bundle size issues

What's new in TypeScript 4.0

Everything new with TypeScript 4.0

NGRX Component-store deep dive - Part 2!

Part 2: Let's dive into the new Component-store library of NGRX!

Introducing NGRX component-store

Part 1: Component-store is an upcoming reactive library of the NGRX family. Let’s discover it and see what it’s all about!

Angular Template Type Checking

Leverage strict template type checking to create bulletproof Angular applications

How to create a custom Angular Webpack configuration

Understand how you can customize the Webpack configuration of your Angular applications

How to Take Notes at Work and Never Forget Anything

How to organize notes at work and never forget anything. Be on top of your game at work.

How to use a proxy to bypass firewalls in corporate environments

In medium to large companies, it’s almost always the case that your Web traffic has to go through a corporate proxy to reach the Web. Here’s how to find out more about those proxies and how to use them from your tools and terminals

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 3: Commits, log and amend

Discover how to create and modify commits with Git, but also how to look at the commit log

Embedding translations in your JS bundles with ngx-translate

Embedding translations in your JS bundles can be useful to speed things up if you know that users need to switch between languages regularly. Here's how to do it

TypeScript Switch Case best practices

Switch statements are sometimes considered a code smell, but when they do make sense to use, you’d better make sure you don’t forget a single case. Luckily, TypeScript can help

Angular best practices: Constructor vs ngOnInit

Learn why ngOnInit is not always the best solution

Strongly typing your Angular route data

Use typed route parameters to improve the quality of your Angular code

NPM best practices: Stop installing npm packages globally

There is almost no use in installing npm packages globally. Here's why

Git tutorial for beginners - Part 2: Git repository, working tree and staging area

Understand Git repositories, the working tree and the staging area

What's new in TypeScript 4.0: Language features

Discover all the new language features in TypeScript 4.0

Git tutorial for beginners — Part 1: What is a DVCS?

Learn everything about git, step by step. Part 1

What's new in TypeScript 3.9

Discover what's new with TS 3.9

Team management tips: What's the bus factor and 7 ways to increase it

Learn about the Bus factor and understand why it matters so much

Angular Tips: Understand Angular scroll position and ScrollPositionRestoration

How to correctly handle scrolling upon Angular route transitions

Optimizing Tailwind for production

Learn how to configure PurgeCSS with Tailwind to reduce get rid of useless styles

Discover Bash aliases and understand why those are great

How to leverage Bash aliases to boost your productivity

Kubernetes tip: Force delete terminating pod

How to get rid of pods that are stuck in the "Terminating" state

Dynamically translating a PrimeNG menu using ngx-translate

How to translate a PrimeNG menu dynamically

What's coming with TypeScript 3.9

The coolest improvements coming with TypeScript 3.9

Discover the Non-Goals of TypeScript

The goals of TypeScript are obvious, but do you know about its non-goals?

How to Write Code Comments Like a Pro

In this article, I’ll explain how my commenting practice (yes, that’s a thing :p) has evolved as well as what I currently recommend, whether you’re a junior fresh out of school, a seasoned developer…

Creating a Storybook instance including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Learn how to create a Storybook including stories from multiple libraries in a Nrwl Nx workspace

Quickly amend a git commit by skipping edit

Here is the quickest way to amend a git commit

TypeScript best practices: Interfaces and custom types vs classes

Why you should favor TypeScript interfaces and custom types over classes

TypeScript monorepo best practices: Avoid import issues

Leverage TypeScript paths to avoid problems with your shared types imports

NGX Quill tip: Dynamically customizing ngx-quill editors in an Angular application

How to customize Quill editors through ngx-quill in an Angular application

Fixing the "can’t resolve all parameters" error with Angular DI

How to fix the "can’t resolve all parameters" error with Angular

TypeScript type only imports and exports

How to use Type-Only imports and exports with TypeScript

Using ngx-translate with Storybook stories

How to use ngx-translate with Storybook stories

How to Manage Remote Teams

Tips and tricks to better manage remote teams and overcome challenges

Improving Gitlab CI performance with a custom Docker image

How to improve Gitlab CI performance and reduce CI/CD build times for Node.js projects using custom Docker images

NodeJS best practice for production: Use stable node and npm versions across your projects and teams

Use stable versions of Node.js and npm to avoid surprises in production

Adding Tailwind to a Nrwl NX monorepo, Angular and Storybook

How to use Tailwind with Angular, Storybook and Nrwl NX

Going through depression and dark times

Heads up: This post will not give you the keys or fix anything in your life, but it’ll give you some ideas about what might help you to shed some light around you. Also, I’m no physician, psychologist or shrink, so don’t take any of this as

Authorization best practices

Authorization best practices to improve the security of your applications

How to start writing

A writer's process and tools. Kickstart your writing!

DeveloPassion’s fifth newsletter

Learn Everything on Your Own With Ease

Unleash the power of self-learning with proven tips and strategies designed for hungry minds eager to expand their knowledge and skills independently

How to achieve Work-Life Balance to Improve Your Well-Being

Discover the secrets to mastering work-life harmony with practical strategies that promote a balanced, fulfilling life

Work/life balance

Sometimes in life, we try too hard for too long. It's important to pay attention to our work life balance

Building a Service Worker with Workbox 5, TypeScript, Webpack and Angular

How to implement a service worker using Workbox, TypeScript, Webpack, and Angular

Deploying TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

How to deploy TLS certificates for local development and production using Kubernetes, cert-manager, mkcert and Let’s Encrypt

Adding missing GPG keys for apt-get on WSL

How to add missing GPG keys when using WSL

Boost your productivity in VSCode Using The Best Extension Packs

Boost your productivity with the best VSCode extensions

Typewriter sounds on Linux

How to enjoy beautiful typewriter sounds while writing on Linux

TypeScript 3 Projects: What's next?

An appendix to my TypeScript book

Tips and Tricks to boost your productivity with VSCode

Tips and tricks to use VSCode like a pro

Applying the MoSCoW prioritization method to Daily Todos

Extending the MoSCoW prioritization method to tag daily tasks

Configuring sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

How to configure sourcemaps with the Angular CLI

Tip of the day: using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Using capture groups and back references to search and replace in IntelliJ

Searching for final methods in a Java project

Efficient way to find final methods in a Java project

Fixing ‘bash’ is not recognized as an internal or external command when used within npm scripts on Windows

Fixing bash is not recognized as an internal or external command error

The story behind my upcoming book: Learn TypeScript by Building Web Applications — part 1

The story behind my TypeScript book

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API with Spring Boot and Kotlin

How to write integration tests for a GraphQL API using Spring Boot 2.x and Kotlin

Cleaning up database tables after each integration test method with Spring Boot and Kotlin

How to clean database tables after each integration test in a Spring Boot application using Kotlin

Using JUnit 5 with Spring Boot 2, Kotlin and Mockito

A guide explaining how to install, configure, and use JUnit 5 with Mockito in a Spring Boot Kotlin project

How to validate UUID with bean validation in Kotlin

A small bean validation constraint annotation in Kotlin for UUIDs

How to install and configure GPG

Some notes about my current setup for GPG/PGP. I’m currently using GnuPG and in particular GPG4Win. Portable mode As usual, I like portable installs and GPG is no exception. I’ve uncompressed it in my tools folder (synchronized across my machines). By itself, the tool is portable, maybe