Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie Long time, no write. It’s been quite a while since my last article here. Such dry spells always make a bit sad, as I love writing and I hav...

Note: This article was originally published on “HEY World” on Oct 25, 2021. I’m moving it to my main blog, as I’ve decided to close my HEY account. I was never a James Bond fan. I mean I liked the...

Note: This article was originally published on “HEY World” on Sep 30, 2021. I’m moving it to my main blog, as I’ve decided to close my HEY account. I envy everyone who picked up their nickname whe...

The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. – Randall Jarrell Yesterday I wrote that I think Emacs is currently experiencing its (second) Gol...

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 track of developments around AsciiDoc, but...

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...