The text discusses the abuse and waste of color in computer interfaces, and the insufficiency of plain text in expressing complex systems. It argues that plain text is the greatest lower bound of all alternatives and that the issu...
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The text discusses the limitations of personal computers and the internet, and proposes a thought experiment about a world where personal computers never existed. It explores the idea of a system of non-personal computers and the ...
0What I'd like to see done in Emacs
2025-02-07 •
The author shares ideas for improvements in and around Emacs, including deriving functionality from other modes, a forwards-compatibility library, local packages with package.el, semantic faces, package installation hints, a clean...
0Using Guix Environments in Emacs using buffer-env
2025-02-07 •
The text explains how to use Guix Environments in Emacs using buffer-env. It describes how to spawn development environments with all the necessary dependencies, how to generate a file specifying what an environment should consist...
0Unix Considered Harmful
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the development of Unix and its impact on modern computing. It explores the Unix philosophy, the history of Unix, and its influence on text processing. It also delves into the limitations of Unix and the need fo...
0Teaching old Emacsen new Tricks
2025-02-07 •
The article discusses the similarities between Unix and Lisp in terms of their developmental phase and standardization efforts. It also introduces a forwards-compatibility library for Emacs called 'compat' and explains its usage a...
0Structuring an Emacs configuration
2025-02-07 •
The author explains the process of restructuring his Emacs configuration, replacing use-package with his own configuration macro and going back to using a regular init.el from a literate Org mode file. He discusses the challenges ...
0Splitting the Feed
2025-02-07 •
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0Selecting fonts using binary search
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses a website that helps in selecting preferred fonts using binary search. The author also re-implemented the game in Emacs and provides a code snippet for the same.
0Rmail is a usable Emacs mail client
2025-02-07 •
The author discusses their experience with Rmail, an Emacs mail reader, and provides an outline of how it works, how to set it up, and its limitations. They also share their personal workflow and configuration for using Rmail.
The author has been working on an extension for package.el that would integrate version controlled packages next to the 'tarball' installations. The main difference with the author's take is that it has been developed as part of t...
0Rearticulating Free Software
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the issue of ideas becoming stale and the need to re-articulate them. The author focuses on the topic of Free Software and the need to explain it from first principles. The text covers the definition of Free Sof...
The text discusses the use of the mouse in Emacs 28 and the addition of context-menu-mode. The author argues against the irrational fear of the mouse among Un*x dogmatists and explains the benefits of using the mouse in certain co...
0Notes on "Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy"
2025-02-07 •
The text is a series of comments and notes on the article 'Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy' by Ramin Honary. The author discusses the theoretical perspective of Emacs as an app platform and its relation to UNIX programming envi...
0More things I'd like to see done in Emacs
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses ideas for projects related to Emacs, including an Eww Unmangler, ELPA Submission Helper, Distributed Content-Addressable Elisp Pastebin, Esoterical Text Manupulation Language, and a User Compat Library. The auth...
0Meditations on a (Lisp-2) Macro
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses a macro written by the author, which replaces symbols designating functions. It also provides an explanation of the 'Lisp 2' tradition and the differences between 'Lisp 1.5' and 'Lisp 2'. The author delves into ...
0Lesser known functionalities in core Emacs
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses lesser-known functionalities in core Emacs, including libraries and packages that are underappreciated. It provides an overview of various packages and libraries, such as autoinsert, htmlfontify, package-x, type...
0Introduction to slides, a Clean Presentation Tool
2025-02-07 •
The text is an introduction to a clean presentation tool called slides, which is a small Go program that generates PostScript and can be converted into a regular PDF file. It explains the installation, file format, commands, and u...
0Good Style in modern Emacs Packages
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the development of Emacs packages and the changes in the packaging system over the years. It provides guidelines for creating good Emacs packages, emphasizing the importance of minimizing user-interface, minimiz...
The text discusses the concept of structuring configurations as files within a base directory, and the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. The author introduces a solution and practical examples, and seeks to start a di...
0Debian with Guix is (un-)surprisingly pleasant
2025-02-07 •
The text discusses the addition of the Guix package to the Debian 11 repository, and the process of using Guix as a package manager. It highlights the benefits of using Guix to keep software up to date and the ease of running Debi...