Contact

General Notes

I’d be really glad to hear from you, if you want to talk about:

• content on the site (e.g. share some feedback about an article I wrote)
• Emacs
• any of my OSS projects
• presentations I gave
• career development
• any topic that is of interest to me (if you know/follow me, you definitely know what they are)

I’ll likely ignore messages:

• from random recruiters who are interested in my (non-existing) React.js and PHP skills
• about “guest” articles from marketing agencies
• that are hostile and non-constructive
• that are sales pitches for random services (I’ve never bought into a service after a cold email from a sales rep, so don’t waste your time with me)

Getting in Touch

The best way to reach me is via email. I love email and rarely bother to check messages on LinkedIn (and social media in general). More details below.

Email

Feel free to contact me at first name at batsov.com/net about anything. Email is a great place for private constructive conversations. It’s also a great option to discuss my open-source projects, if you’re the type of person who avoids using GitHub.

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GitHub

The best place to collaborate on any of my OSS projects is GitHub. I welcome all contributions, no matter how small they are. I also try to help all contributors with feedback and guidance.

My projects are spread over several GitHub accounts:

• Personal Projects
• RuboCop HQ
• Clojure Emacs
• nREPL
• Flycheck

Feel free to also send PRs addressing the many typos and the bad English grammar in this blog. I guess it’s obvious I don’t really proofread my articles.

Mastodon

Mastodon is the only “social media” that I like and use frequently these days (early 2024). It’s a great place for sharing random thoughts and ideas, quick feedback, shout-outs, etc.

My Mastodon handle is bbatsov@hachyderm.io.

Bluesky

Bluesky reminds me of the early days of Twitter and I’m somewhat active there as well. You can find my Bluesky profile here.

X (Twitter)

Twitter was the only social media that I liked, before it went to sh*t. I’m still use it to some extent, but I prefer Mastodon and Bluesky over it.

Blog Comments

For reasons outlined here I’ve removed comments from this blog.

I keep an eye on the traffic coming to the blog, so if my articles end up on Reddit, HackerNews, etc, I’ll likely notice this and join the conversation there.

LinkedIn

I accept most invitations to connect, but I rarely respond to any messages there. If you want to get my attention on LinkedIn you’ll have to try really hard. Emails work a lot better!