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I'm not sure how long I'll keep doing this, but the Supernote is such a good match for the TLSp that I had to share my idea with you. If you are new to the TLSp, please check out all the articles and videos at vladcampos.com/tlsp, because I'm going s...
There I was, catching up on my RSS reader, when it struck me. What if I bring the TLSp back to digital, but using the Supernote? Not only can I write similarly to what I do on paper, but it also has all these features that I can use to blend what I w...
A few days after switching back to my old G-Shock, I already knew I was going to keep wearing it for a while and decided to order a softer strap. That was when I found out Casio opted for a proprietary system, restricting the available options. Of co...
The battery life on my Garmin Instinct 2 is really good. If I run a couple of times a week, it can last about 20 days. Obviously, the more I run, the less it lasts. There was one time, on a very long trail hike, that the charge dropped considerably i...
Weeks after starting the process of trying to port the TLS to paper, I’ve come to realize quite clearly that the decision to keep all notes in chronological order was a good choice. I simply open the notebook and write down whatever comes to mind. Th...
Living in a popular destination like Porto definitely has its side effects. But whenever I want to feel like a tourist on vacation, I just head downtown. Fun fact: that’s actually wine in my glass. Drinking it like I do at home makes the whole trip f...
I recently came across the beautifully formatted public domain books in the Standard Ebooks catalog and decided to look for the classics sitting on my TBR list for way too long. Another great surprise was discovering that Standard Ebooks is also quit...
It’s been a few weeks since I started porting the Timeline System to a paper notebook (TLSp), and the most important thing about this experiment is that I’ve gone completely all-in. I’ve been managing all my activities and taking my notes strictly in...
Since I started the Timeline System on Paper project, I've been dedicating some time to finding out what the best pen is for the notebook I'm using. And when I say "the best," keep in mind that it's just a way of saying "the one I like the most." Oh,...
Knowing that many people love or prefer paper, I've been studying the viability of an analog version of the Timeline System. There is no separation of topics across different pages, sections, or anything like that. Everything is written in chronologi...
Yesterday, I wrote about the Micro.blog Paradox, and that ended up triggering so many questions. Why am I even using a platform to host my site and blog? Why not build something the way I want? What if I try it by first going back to the basics, just...
Before I start, here's some context: This is not a criticism. I really appreciate what Manton is building, but, more often than not, I feel like something is missing. This post is about social integration. I have no complaints about the “blog part” o...
I'm 256 km away from home, and after testing it at different points, one of my MeshCore messages reached the radio I left there connected to the Raspberry Pi! 🤯
As someone who started with an Apple II and DOS, I'm finding the Linux shell out of this world. I'm barely scratching the surface and am already impressed by how capable and powerful it is.
I started my LoRa journey with two radios, but it didn't take long to get two additional ones. It's been a little over a month of running Meshtastic on all of them, and meanwhile, the dust has settled on the MeshCore split drama. So, I've decided to...
I’ve been on a quest to build a completely private, 100% local AI system for my Obsidian vault and I finally have a working proof of concept to share. ▶ For now, I’m using Ollama and the Obsidian CLI to search my notes and generate answers locally on...
🕵️♂️ Can you spot Obsidian in this picture? Spoiler: It’s hidden, but it’s definitely there. If you can't find it, check this video, it explains the experiment I'm trying. ▶
This is an update on my Portable Computer project. For those of you who don't know anything about it, my goal is to use a Raspberry Pi 5 as a multipurpose device. Think of it as a thick iPad mini for content consumption, and, at the same time, a devi...
The Timeline System is a living system. As I used it and explained it to others, I realized that small nomenclature adjustments and new ways of visualizing the flow would make it a bit more intuitive. In this article, I’ll talk about how I’m currentl...
As you may know, Amazon recently made many older Kindle devices obsolete. Thank you for being a longtime Kindle customer. We're glad our devices have served you well for as long as they have. Starting May 20, 2026 — 14 to 18 years after their initial...
I was already impressed by the performance of KOReader on my 2012 Kindle, but installing it on my Supernote was a game changer. Compared to every other ePub app I’ve tried — including the default Supernote reader — this is proving to be the best by f...
Today I set up Syncthing on my Raspberry Pi. It was a massive pain to get everything done via command line, but now I’ve got a folder constantly syncing with my Mac and I’m already seeing endless possibilities 😁
Thought this was appropriate after switching to KOReader for my DRM-free eBooks.
I have no idea what I did, but the emoji row disappeared from my phone keyboard. No worries; I'm Generation X, and neither my first internet experience nor my first mobile phones had emojis. They had emoticons. Well, if you know, you know ;-)
After a few days of intense experimentation, I was pretty impressed by the Meshtastic network. However, the beginning of this journey was frustrating, to say the least. It all started a little over a week ago, on April 25th — the day after the kits a...
The LoRa kits arrived early today 🤩, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to have some fun. My plan is to install Meshtastic on one and MeshCore on the other to test both networks.
I’ve been dreaming about a global mesh network since the 2000s, and I just came across two that are actually working: Meshtastic and MeshCore. It’s finally time to have some fun. I first learned about mesh networks many years ago, in the 2000s, when...
I just came back from a trip down the Meshtastic rabbit hole, and I'm sold. It took me only a few hours — from learning a bunch of incredible things about the project to ordering two kits. I don't even remember how long I've been telling my wife I wi...
This is the first time I've heard from people on the other side of a Bending Spoons acquisition. The Chief Technology Officer and Product Manager start talking about the experience in more detail around the six-minute mark. At the time, we felt Bendi...
This pretty much sums it up. The platform Musk took over was imperfect but impactful. What exists today is something else: diminished, and increasingly de minimis. —EFF
I've been seeing people on Mastodon complaining about this or that online service with problems the whole day. I myself couldn't access Bluesky earlier. 🤔 Could these be signs of some sort of new Cloudflare or AWS outage?
I finished working on version 3.5 of my Car Kitchen yesterday — just in time to test it today on a hike near the Douro river. Comparing it to previous pictures, it may look just like version 3, but I put a lot of hours into this project and the build...
It's really hard for me to truly understand the technical differences between ActivityPub and the AT Protocol, but every time I read a comparison like the one below, I end up siding with ActivityPub. On ATProtocol, while initiatives like Blacksky and...
It's been a few months since I merged the sliding prototype with the kitchen box that traveled with me across Europe last summer, and I'm absolutely in love with it. This version 3 has come with us on several short trips through Portugal and Spain an...
I find it intriguing that both the Protomolecule and Astrophage choose Venus. Maybe we should send more probes there, just in case 😊
When I imported my notes from Evernote, I wasn't entirely sure how I wanted my properties, folders, and other Obsidian settings to be. Long story short, I ended up with a backlog of hundreds of notes that I’m still reorganizing — and I’ll probably be...
I grabbed the mug without even looking at it. Cold! Blerg! 😝 No worries, microwave it is. Yes, I do that with my coffee. ⏲️ Ting! When I opened the door, I found two mugs instead of one. Talk about hyperfocus. That, or this Airbnb has a food duplicat...
A friend who was moving asked me if I wanted this speaker system, which I don't even know exactly how to define. It’s basically two speakers and a larger one in the middle that I'm guessing is a subwoofer for the bass. Anyway, the moment I noticed th...
I use only one Obsidian vault for everything personal and professional. However, I do keep several other vaults for testing things and recording YouTube videos. To keep things cleaner and more organized, I recently moved all these additional vaults t...
We went hiking this weekend, and when I saw this tree almost growing from its ashes, like a phoenix, I stayed there for a while admiring its perseverance. I had already found that amazing, but a couple of meters ahead, there was an entire group of th...
I listen to great music on what I consider to be the best device ever to organize and enjoy a music collection. I recently bought a second used one on eBay, just in case I need spare parts to keep it running for as long as I'm around in this world. S...
I like to give cool names to my files, computers, external disks, etc. My MacBook Air has 500 GB of storage, but because of video editing and so much local stuff like photos, music, etc., I keep a 1 TB external SSD with me all the time. The name I ca...
I'm in the middle of an operation to import old Flickr photos to my blog, and that has brought back some interesting memories. Not only of the places, but of the entire process of snapping the photo and tuning it to a style I like. When smartphone ca...
Like most of us, I recently got an email from OpenAI, and I couldn't help but mentally translate some sentences while I was reading it. Here's how my brain was perceiving things: "Finding friends" — Oh, we are building a social media platform and, al...
Regarding the YouTube AI problem I mentioned yesterday, I just had an idea. Another way to check if a voiceover-style channel is real is to go back two or three years in its timeline. If there are older videos, we can compare their style to the prese...
I use YouTube a lot — for watching news from TV channels, scientists sharing content about their specialties, and independent journalists. It's also a great place to follow creative people building cool things, and, of course, for learning and teachi...
Some of you may not know, but in addition to having graduated in economics, I have an MBA in international affairs. These are subjects I deeply enjoy, and I am constantly following the news and reading articles on these topics. I consider myself an i...
I don't really use Callouts in Obsidian, but I know many people who love to format their notes with features like this. So, here's a video about it for my Quick Tips series. ▶