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Possessing a Missionary Spirit As Timothy Did

We live in exciting times in history. Recent advances in technology have improved our quality of life in many ways. Travelling around the world is faster and easier than ever before. In many ways, we have a better life now than rich people did hundreds of years ago. While many things have changed, the Gospel message remains the same. As Christians, we are all meant to share the Gospel, and the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) still applies to us today. Missionaries have a challenging job: spreading an old message in today’s advanced society. That might seem hard enough already, but there is one more problem: in times when people are more and more self-centred, where everyone looks out for their own interests (Philippians 2:21 NIV), why would someone be willing to sacrifice their time and comfort to serve others and share the old message of the Gospel?

Five Variations on Abide With Me

Abide With Me is one of these lovely songs touching the heart. Written by Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, the lyrics emphasize our need for God's presence throughout every stage of our growth in faith: justification, sanctification, and glorification.

An Act of Love and Service

When I was a kid, I wondered why people need blood transfusions and why would someone donate blood. Growing up I understood better that in some cases (eg. serious injuries etc.), people may lose blood, therefore requiring a transfusion. Since blood is not something we can buy or create artificially (perhaps yet?), the viable option is to motivate other persons to donate little quantities of their blood. ✨

Sometimes Waiting Is Worth It

We live in times in which it is relatively easy to obtain something we want, and often quite quickly. A simple internet search usually saves hours of searching in physical books, fast vehicles take us from point A to point B with speeds we could not naturally reach, and the list goes on. 🚀

Olvido Y Esperanza

Enjoying a sunrise on the beautiful beach of Valencia, while listening to the gentle waves of the Mediterranean Sea, I was reading about Valencian art and literature. 🌊

I’ve Built a Digital Organ and This Is What I Learned

For quite a bit of time, I have been looking for a solution to practice the organ at home. A digital piano may simulate a real piano quite well, but for an organ, the pedalboard is a real need. 🎹

The Exactness of Astronomy and The Plans of God

There is no doubt that astronomy is an extraordinary field of science. I love it! I am amazed by the accuracy of how the Universe works. Specifically, it is remarkable how the constellations and planets move with such a precision that we can anticipate eclipses, conjunctions, and other astronomical events. 🌌

BWV 637 — Through Adam's Fall (Bach)

“Through Adam's Fall” — BWV 637 — it is fascinating how Bach harmonised this choral which illustrates the fall of the human race. With a massive amount of dissonances and chromatic sequences, the effects of the ancestral sin are emphasised in an astonishing way.

Op 148, Verset No. 2 — Louis J.-A. Lefébure-Wély

To continue the idea of peace and meditation, this second section of Op. 148 is yet another piece to inspire the souls of the listeners and to create calmness.

Op 148, Verset No. 1 — Louis J.-A. Lefébure-Wély

Jesus said:

Pipe Organ Recordings

During the last couple of weeks, we had been working on some recordings featuring sacred music for pipe organ written by Bach and Louis J.-A. Lefébure-Wély.

Highlights of 2018 → Happy New Year 2019

For me, 2018 was a special year in which I accomplished many objectives and learned a bunch of things. Having the flexibility to work and travel is a great blessing. 🙏

My Journey To India 2017 – What I have Learned

In 2017 I travelled to India for 5 weeks. 🇮🇳 Finally, I took the time to write about what I learned there. As European, I tried my best to adapt to the Indian life as much as possible, eating what and how they eat, doing stuff the way they do it, visiting some nice places and working at the same time. 🍀

Accessing My Home Computer Remotely

I have a powerful ASUS machine which I use when I'm at home. I guess it was designed for gaming. It's quite useful for any tasks, but I often use it for expensive tasks using more resources (e.g. training neural networks). It got a fast enough wired internet connection, as well! 🚀

The Joy of Being a Mentor

Helping our fellow developers—or generally speaking, helping each another—is an important part of society. We all work and struggle on this planet, so offering a helping hand is always welcome. ❤️

How I npm

I write a lot of code every day, publishing my code on GitHub and npm. Each tiny package I create does something, and in most of the cases it's a module which can be used in other applications. 🍀

What to Do When Your Website is Broken

Our job as developers is to break and fix stuff every day. Sometimes, some of us even do it on production servers. But during emergencies, they just tend to apply a quick fix which may not actually fix anything at all— in fact, it could even make things worse.

The Amazing Tangram Square

I was 7 years old when I first found out what the Tangram Square is. I saw it in a Maths book and I quickly started to have fun with it.💫

How to write a web scraper in Node.js

Sometimes we need to collect information from different web pages automagically. Obviously, a human is not needed for that. A smart script can do the job pretty good, especially if it's something repetitive. 💫

Pi Day, Raspberry Pi and Command Line

Everyone knows (or should know) what the Pi number is. Basically, its value is defined by the division of a circle circumference to its diameter. That's the Pi number! The nice thing about it is its irrational nature. That means it has ~~a lot~~ an infinity of decimals.

How I ported Memory Blocks to modern web

Playing computer games is a lot of fun. Playing games improving brain function and performance is even better. The first computer game I ever played was one of these. ⚡️

How to convert JSON to Markdown using json2md

I love and use both JSON and Markdown in my projects. Each npm package requires a package.json file which is obviously written in JSON format. Also, good projects have good documentation. My favorite language for writing docs is Markdown.

7 of My Favorite Bible Passages

Bible is full of beautiful verses that encourage us and light our path in this world. While they all are important, I have some favorite passages that I like in special. Here are seven of them. 💫

Increasing productivity using Blah 2.0.0

Few months ago I was introducing Blah–one of nicest tools I ever used in module/project development. It helped me a lot. Literally. More than 80% of my projects documentation was generated by this tool.

Reserving packages on NPM

As of 20th of August, 2015, I discontinued this project:

Visualize your GitHub projects languages

I created a tiny tool for visualizing the programming languages collected from someone's GitHub repositories. It is available here, being hosted on GitHub pages.

Upload files using NodeJS

In this article I will describe how to upload files using Lien and Formidable, after creating a NodeJS HTTP server.

We're getting social

I released the initial version of Bloggify social plugin, adding the functionality to share the articles on social networks.

Introducing the RSS Feed

Many people use RSS readers to get updates from the sites subscribed.

The OctoSnowCat

It's a snowy weather here… And I had a lot of fun by building a 3D octocat of snow: actually an OctoSnowCat. Yeps, here is the result:

Develop desktop applications using web technologies

Building a website is easy: just some HTML styled with CSS and with some JavaScript handlers for the user interaction. But what about desktop applications? I've never liked to build desktop applications because they generally depend on the platform they run.

IsRespo: Test your website responsiveness

I'm happy to announce IsRespo 1.0.0 the newest release of IsRespo – a tool for visualizing how websites are loaded on different devices (big displays, laptops, tables, phones etc).

Using NodeJS to convert images into ASCII art

I've released a new version of the image-to-ascii NodeJS package which is used for converting images into ASCII art.

CLI GitHub - A fancy GitHub client for the command line

Using GitHub in a browser like Chrome, Firefox etc. is fine, but not always comfortable. When you always stay in a Terminal window, pressing alt + tab becomes annoying. This problem can be solved using a text browser (e.g. Elinks). However, using a text browser for browsing GitHub is not the most comfortable way to access GitHub resources.

Uploading videos to YouTube using NodeJS

Using different service APIs may be difficult, especially for beginners, but not only. In this post, I will try to make clearer how to upload a video on YouTube, using NodeJS.

Introducing the Blah Command Line Tool

Working with NodeJS modules I was doing the following ~~repetitive~~ boring tasks:

Statique@1.0.0 is released

Statique is a Node.JS static server module that has built-in routing and caching stuff. The new version comes with a lot of fixes and features.

Creating a Twitter Bootstrap theme with Compass

Supposing you already have Compass installed on your machine, you can easily create your own Twitter Bootstrap theme. I'm running Compass 1.0.1 (Polaris) on Ubuntu 14.04.

regex-parser@1.0.0 is released

Sometimes I need to parse strings as regular expressions. For example, having a string like "/hello world/gi", it should be converted into a real regular expression: /hello world/gi.

Switzerland, GitHub and Octocats

Two weeks ago I was in Switzerland, together with my colleagues from

Introducing MiniLightbox

I've just released an image lightbox library that has a very simple API. Its

"Le Table" - Create ASCII tables with Node.JS

Last week I published [an article about cli-box][1] - a library that creates ASCII rectangles. [A pull request][2] was made (thanks @wesolyromek), adding the feature to fill such rectangles with text. A great improvement!

Generate ASCII boxes with NodeJS

Creating ASCII rectangles just became easier. I created cli-box - a NodeJS module that can be used to generate ASCII boxes.

Tweak your terminal with flat colors

It's time to bring the flat colors into your terminal! I've released a theme for Gnome Terminal that is published on GitHub.

First post from UI

This is the first post that was published thru the UI. Bloggify has a very simple editor. The posts are written in Markdown format. It's pretty simple to learn… not so complicated.

We've Got a Name

I am happy to announce the name of this blogging platform: Bloggify. It's just simple to pronounce and it's related to the term blogging.

Testing Code Highlighting

Code highlighting is cool! Let's make some tests.

Hello World

Welcome to my first post on this blog. Bored of complicated designs and settings, I decided to start my own NodeJS-based blogging platform.