What is dead cannot die. – A Song of Ice and Fire (a.k.a. Game of Thrones) Emacs was originally created in 1976. I was born in 1984. I’ve been using Emacs as my primary editor since 2005. Back...

One of my small issues with OCaml is that the standard library is quite spartan. Sometimes it misses functions that are quite common in other (similar) languages. One such example are functions lik...

I’m an avid fan of AsciiDoc and I’ve been using it for years to write documentation for some of my OSS projects (e.g. CIDER and Projectile). I try to keep tracking of developments around AsciiDoc, ...

After my recent article on Bluesky something rather unexpected happened. I noticed a link to an interesting post on Mastodon and when I signed in to check it out, I was surprised to see that my fee...

Remember me trying out Mastodon a while ago? Well, it didn’t stick. For various reasons. I’m still not happy with the current state of X/Twitter, though, so I kept looking for other alternatives a...

In the end, there can be only one. – Highlander I’ve had a problem with email for a while now. It took me a while to recognize how absurd this is, but it finally happened. Using multiple email...

How can you be sure that an OCaml function you wrote is actually tail-recursive? You can certainly compile the code and look at the generated assembly code, but that’d be quite the overkill, given ...

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. – Søren Kierkegaard Another year is behind us and I guess it’s time to write the obligatory year in review post about it. ...

Last year (2022) I celebrated a rather unexpected all time blogging record. As it often happens in such cases, however, there was a massive drop in my blogging activity afterwards. In 2023 I lacke...

Here’s a small follow-up to my usage of Fastmail that started in 2021. In a nutshell - little has changed since my previous update. Fastmail is still my favorite email vendor and I keep using it mo...