Now

(This is a now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too.)

Updated June 28th, 2024 from my home in Essen, Germany.It is a weird Summer here.

Current projects (overview)

My book proposal for "The Digital Marketer’s Playbook" got accepted by Apress (Springer-Nature) in January 2024, and I send the completed manuscript in early June 2024. It should get published in Q3-Q4 2024!

You can check the announcement here: Exciting News: My Upcoming Book "The Digital Marketer’s Playbook" is about to launch

One big change from the last update is that it will be traditionally published instead of self-published.

Besides that, I am currently working on:

  • Lifelog: my approach to Journaling and Quantified-Self. A Django-based Platform where you can add, list and remove entries from one or more Journals. The entries are from several types and the main UI is a Telegram Bot. You "chat" with the bot, and it saves the information for later processing using spacy or NLTK. Running on fly.io, docker, Django, postgres and Telegram. Expect more news soon.
  • The translation of my first novel La destrucción de la razón to German and English. I got beta readers who kindly made corrections to my translations, but it will take more time than I initially thought.

Some more details

Books I am working on

I've also been working forever in Zen Stories, but I expect to be live this year.

What am I developing

I developed LitFeedback to get feedback for my book on Digital Marketing. I researched a lot and decided that the tool I needed/ wanted was not there yet, mainly because I am writing the book in AsciiDoc format and I did not want to have the need to convert it each time.

Lately I´ve been using this site more, and I´ve developed some plugins and shortcodes for Nikola (the static site generator that powers this site). Some of them are a GitHub Widget, some shortcodes and a full-text search. You can find my nikola-related posts here: link://tag/nikola

What am I writing about

I've been writing on this site regularly, mostly technical FAQs. I also cross-post sometimes to Medium, sometimes Dev.to and LinkedIn

Because of several things I've been learning a lot about Epilepsy and I´m thinking on sharing what I´ve found, although I have not yet found the right way to do that.

Social

Besides cross-posting, I am not that active in social media. I've been curious about the Fediverse and how it works, so I've started to use the decentralized mastodon server mas.to under @[email protected].

Me

I got a facial paralysis lat year and that got me into reflecting what is important and what not so much. I expect to publish some of my ideas and essays on life later this year. Although I have tried to go slowly, it not that easy (I was told publishing a book is not part of that)

I realized that reading the experiences, ideas and reflections of others has helped me enormously to reflect and grow as a person (e.g. Leo Babauta's early writings in Zen Habits, James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter or the early writings on FS). Perhaps some of what I write will help others in a similar way.

I also realized there are some who like to read what I write, but are not that versed in technology to use RSS Feeds and so on. In an effort to get out of my comfort-zone I created a Telegram Channel where I post updates on my writing and projects. You are welcome to join here :)