This is my first ever blog entry.
Another blog?
The blog doesn’t have a specific topic since this just replicates my local notes, some thoughts and books I read. In the following manner, the blog will cover computer science topics, algorithms, math problems, finance books, fictional books or anything else I find interesting. Therefore I’m not planning on focussing on any specific topic. This might change in the future.
Why I like the idea of writing a blog
In November 2024 I started reading more and came across the book “building a second brain” by Thiago Forte (I will cover this book in the next weeks as well) and really liked his idea of a brain which is free from disturbing and exhausting thoughts. According to Forte the brain should be a thinking tool and all of your thoughts should be loaded off to a second, external brain in order to for fill this goal. Immediately I created an obsidian vault and started building a note taking workflow to keep everything I think about. In the book Forte also talks about outputting your thoughts and notes to the public. He thinks your thoughts could potentially help someone and I also really liked that idea. To sum it up I was inspired by Thiago Forte and want to give his method a shot. Also there is a really nice quote I thought about: “Clear thinking becomes clear writing” - William Zinsser. Basically this means if you can’t write about a topic you don’t truly understand the topic deeply enough.
What is this blog post about
The first time is always the hardest so I don’t really want to wait any longer and just publish whatever I felt like is “shareable”. This post will contain my thoughts about the alchimist by Paulo Coelho, my struggle trying to understand C (the programming language) and 2 fundamental algorithms (quick sort and binary search).
Anything else mentionable
I switch between german (my native language) and english fairly often which means some notes are in english, especially those about computer science or books I read in english, but some are in german as well. I will translate those using ChatGPT in order to safe time and friction because I feel like this blog entries should be in english to reach more people (and to practice my english^^). If you have any suggestions while reading this, interesting thoughts about things I talked about in some post dm me and lets talk about it. I would love to get in touch with you and hear about other opinions or interpretations regarding the work I deal with.
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structure
The page I’ll link separate pages to the specific topics. By doing so you get a brief overview about the topic and can decide which topics you want to read about and don’t have to scroll though text you might aren’t interested in. I imagine the homepage as a list of all individual blog posts with tags which give you an idea what the post will be about. All the blog post will be subpages of the homepage. I want to create a monthly page and add all the topics I dealt with through out the month. This would be compareable to a rolling release. In the future I can imagine posting only 1 time a month like a monthy newspaper.
Content of this post
- The Alchimist-engVers
- Dealing with C
- quick sort algorithm
- binary search
- creating a REST api using spring boot
Things I’m working on right now
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
- Discovering Haskell
- More algorithms