Supposedly today we have a lot of browsers to choose from - Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, etc. Having choices is a good thing, right? Nobody wants to relive...

2021 is the year of anniversaries for me: 10 years since the creation of my first OSS project Projectile 10 years since the creation of my second OSS project Emacs Prelude 10 years of using...

Recently I came across this tweet about Emacs and its users: Some of the best programmers I know have been using Emacs for as long as I've known them.Equally, almost all of them have been sett...

After switching (think) to Minimal Mistakes I’ve been doing some small improvements to the site’s structure and content. I thought it might be a good idea to summarize them here: I’ve updated t...

redux adjective brought back; resurgent: the Victorian era redux. A decade ago, I wrote an article titled Why Emacs?. I came across the article a few days ago and I felt that given ...

Let’s talk a bit about .net. No, not Microsoft’s .NET, but the other .net - one of the original top-level internet domains. Given how popular .com has become, I find it really strange that .net fai...

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Your name is your brand. This may sound like a cliche, but it’s true. That’s why it’s a very good idea to make sure that when people sear...

From time to time I tend to forget what’s my effective Git configuration, so I have to check it somehow. Most of the time I’d simply do the following:1 $ git config --list user.name=Bozhidar Batso...

It’s been over a decade since I’ve started using Jekyll and I’m still struggling with setting up Atom feeds there. Perhaps this happens mostly, because I rarely do any feed-related changes, so I te...

Yesterday I got yet another completely absurd cold email from an incompetent technical recruiter: I’m looking for a Front-end React (Next.js) developer to join our international team. It’s a Fu...