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As of today, March 30, 2026, gvalia.xyz has turned 2.

Throughout 2025 I kept seeing CEOs of large companies (including AI labs) scaring people by mentioning the possibility that white-collar jobs would be automated by AI.

In this post I’ll try my best to explain an idea that has been brewing in my head as a result of maintaining my own Emacs configuration.

In praise of creating crap is an article by Annie Mueller that deconstructs what being creative is.

As of today, March 30, 2025, gvalia.xyz has turned 1 year old.

I’ve long been thinking about the differences between a tweet/toot and a blog post.

I’ve long been fascinated by how inefficient our default keyboard layouts are.

I use a plain markdown file as my “inbox”.

There was a time when I was very into the idea of saving and archiving everything.

I’ve often thought that the years of watching YouTube in adolescence have held me back from becoming a better person than I am now.

There are a lot of systems that are deliberately designed to be small and limited in scope. uxn comes to mind.

I use evil-mode in Emacs, which means that I get the text-editing capabilities of Vim and the benefits of Emacs and its ecosystem.