The Education of James Endres Howell

2026 May 23 Light or dark?

2026 Apr 15 I wrote org-static-blog-emfed, a little Emacs package that extends org-static-blog with the ability to embed a Mastodon thread in a blog post to serve as comments.

2026 Apr 04 It was really fun to learn about advising Lisp functions to extend functionality in Emacs.

2026 Mar 10 I loyally enjoy running Debian Stable.

2026 Feb 25 I was in high school during the 1980s.

2026 Jan 08 I love mu4e for dealing with email under Emacs.

2026 Jan 03 Every year my institution measures faculty productivity by requiring us to submit a report of our annual activities.

2025 Dec 29 Many of us in higher education use Emacs to produce course materials, and these must conform to the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

2025 Feb 07 I never write poetry.

2024 Sep 08 On Mastodon, someone in my timeline [update 2025: on an instance that is now gone, alas] asked how to debunk the anti-privacy argument that goes “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”

2024 Sep 06 One of my proudest moments as a father went like this.