New is always better. – Barney Stinson My recent article Who Needs Modern Emacs? generated a bit of controversy. I’ve received a lot of feedback over email, Reddit, and Lobsters and I feel the...

May you live in interesting times. – an old Chinese curse Two years of a global pandemic. Then a massive war in Europe, in my beloved Ukraine of all places.1 I never thought we’d see any of th...

Talking never moves anything in Emacs, never did, never will. 2021 Maintainer of GNU Emacs, who then proceeded to keep talking. My previous article Who Needs Modern Emacs? generated a lot of f...

The tools we use have a profound (and devious) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Every now and again I come across some discussi...

A reader asked me recently how do I use custom domains for my email needs and I promised to write a short blog post about this. Promised fulfilled! So, why do you need a custom domain for email in...

I love email! Shocker, right? Especially in this day and age, that are dominated by social media and instant messengers. I’ve got my reasons for this and I’ve covered them to some extent in the pas...

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. – Leslie Lamport I came across the quote above a few days ago on Twitter and it resonated extremely strongly with me. I’ve a...

That’s one article I’ve really struggled to write. For the past 2 weeks I’ve been totally consumed by the horrible war in Ukraine. For many years I believed that we’d never see another war in Europ...

Bitcoin reminds me of what Oscar Wilde said about fox hunting. He said it was the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable. – Charlie Munger I’ve long been extremely skeptical of crypto1, r...

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about music and the role it played in my life over the years. I think I’ve been pretty passionate about music ever since I discovered MTV and VH1 on cable television...