17 years ago the famous blogger John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame, introduced the concept of a “link log”/”linkblog”:1 New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of intere...

I got reminded yesterday that Emacs is not a proper GTK application after installing Windows 11 to make use of its built-in support for Linux GUI apps running in WSL. Windows uses Wayland/Weston an...

I’ve always hated filler chat/email messages like “Hello! How are you doing?”, so I’m very glad we have sites like nohello.net where we can point people who are in the habit of using them.1 In cas...

I love programming puzzles, even if I’ve never been particularly good at solving them. For me they were always a good way to gain some practice with a new programming language and to push myself to...

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...