Lately I’ve been a bit bored with my tried and true development tools and I’ve been playing with some alternatives. One of the most interesting tools I came across is the Helix editor. It’s inspire...

Today I wanted to update a bit markup in my blog and it took me some time to get it right. Basically I wanted to replace the language in some fenced code blocks and my instinct was to go for a comb...

Yesterday I’ve installed the newly released Ruby 3.4, but this caused an issue with Jekyll: bundler: failed to load command: jekyll (/Users/bbatsov/.rbenv/versions/3.4.1/bin/jekyll) <internal:/...

While I was setting up my new mac mini yesterday I noticed something interesting - Apple have stopped shipping the ancient Emacs 22.1 with macOS! As I was mostly using Windows + WSL2 in the past 5 ...

I guess most of you are aware that I’ve been using Windows 11 + WSL as my main development environment in the past 4 years.1 I’ve spent some time running Emacs with the built-in Windows Wayland ser...

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...