Daniel's Blog

A tiny Kakoune tip: creating custom filetype modes to organize keybindings.

My goal is instill in you a comprehensive understanding of the Kakoune text editor: what it is, how it works, and why it has that design.

The first development log of my long-term project to build a Kakscript parser, formatter, and linter.

Learning Rust, switching to OCaml, porting a small library, and letting curiosity take the reins.

A guide on how to set up Outlook to work with OAuth in certain third-party email clients like neomutt or aerc

A critique of performative open-source contribution, and an argument for cultural gatekeeping in FOSS.

How modal editing solves the "too many commands, too few keys" problem without finger-twisting chords.

A practical guide to managing a local music library on Linux; from metadata normalization and synchronized lyrics to MPD/rmpc playback, with integrations like Discord and KDE Connect.

A very brief essay discussing the negativity towards "normal" people among communities of "weirdos".

A detailed analysis of workspace configuration in text editors, why security matters, and how I implemented the feature in Kakoune.

A quick rant about Markdown syntax ambiguity, formatting problems, and implementing a solution in Kakoune.

On text, tech, caring, the importance of existing, and cave paintings.

A poem about technology.

A detailed overview of plain-text email formatting, what makes it deceptively hard, and how I wrote mailfmt.

A brief post about how I implemented URL opening in Kakoune.

An account of my implementation of a Kakoune lexer in Pygments.

Tutorial on configuring Kakoune for email reading & composition.

Tutorial on configuring Helix for email composition.

Brief tutorial on setting up automatic mirroring from sr.ht to github.

My thoughts on websites, DIY, and the small web.

Brief post about how the internet is very, very big.

My experience of delving into email.