Junji Zhi

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Elixir TIL: Start Plug-based Apps without Stopping

If you are writing a Dockerfile for your Elixir app, the final CMD line may look like:

Jun 9, 2022 · 1 min read

Gusto Engineering Blog Article: My Second Brain on Plaintext

Today I published an article in Gusto Engineering Blog. It is about how I manage my working memory with a single plaintext file: wm.txt. And later the workflow evolved into a wm.org file and leverage all the power of Emacs and org-mode!

Apr 14, 2022 · 1 min read

Read it Later on Emacs, Information Intake and Writing

Recently I read Tiago Forte's post about Read-it-Later flow. It piqued my interest.

Feb 6, 2022 · 2 min read

AI as Note Taking Pal: An Experiment

I did an experiment to ask OpenAI to finish one Zettelkasten note. The goal is to enrich my notes. Turns out, AI generated content is not always directly usable. But the same content can be useful in surprising ways, which may enrich our thinking and writing at the end.

Jan 1, 2022 · 5 min read

"Memory Heap" the Misnomer

Do you know that memory heap has nothing to do with heap as a data structure?

Nov 7, 2021 · 1 min read

Use elfeed to Manage All My RSS feeds

RSS is back!

Oct 7, 2021 · 2 min read

Personal RSS Reader with Project Venus

How to set up a personal RSS reader with open-source Project Venus
Sep 29, 2021 · 2 min read

A Software Development Systems Model

This is my exploratory work to apply systems thinking to explain the software development activities. The model attempts to define the relationships between features development velocity, engineer happiness, bugs/incidents.
Sep 23, 2021 · 3 min read

Use Emacs for Systems Thinking

I set up Emacs + Org mode + Mermaid as a way to do Stock/Flow systems modeling. With some styling tweaks and conventions, I get the diagrams rendered reasonably for my use.
Sep 19, 2021 · 3 min read

Launching Emacstil.com

A site to document all the tricks and learnings about Emacs!
Sep 5, 2021 · 1 min read
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