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I was urged by two close friends to watch this movie, specifically in theaters.

Learning Guile has been on my wishlist for a while because of the power it affords users of Guix: you get to control its service manager, Shepherd[1], configure other programs, manage containers[2], all in the same powerful language in a consistent syntax.

Recently Hilton Chain[1] put together emacs-guix-starter, a starter Emacs configuration that uses Guix and is set up to Guix.

Earlier this week I watched Civil War (2024), directed and written by Alex Garland.

I recently read a great article for Emacs newbies: Emacs Teaches Emacs: The Missing README from Charlie Holland’s blog.

Recently added to this site are per-page emoji reactions.

My first touch with actual web development has been the development of this site using Astro.

I learned about The Harada Method today from a recent edition (June 20, 2026) of Liz Jung’s Flourished Hope newsletter.

Today I stumbled upon a recently published (one month ago) blog post by the Guix team: Time travel without borders.

Table of Contents The good and bad: what to expect on Android Installation Option 1 Option 2 (recommended) Configuring an Android-specific Emacs Necessary reading: the manual How to configure your init.el on a mobile device?

Table of Contents The configuration Devices Folders Closing remarks Other resources Changelog Footnotes So I recently got around to trying out NixOS.

No-littering.el keeps your .emacs.d clean.

Apr 7, 2025 With several commits made on April 6, 2025, vertico spun off its sorting functionality into an extension: vertico-sort.

Over the last month or two I’ve been trying out the relatively new jujutsu version control system (VCS) — and loving it.

Table of Contents The Perceptual Faith and Its Obscurity Science Presupposes the Perceptual Faith and Does Not Elucidate It Perceptual Faith and Reflection Footnotes This post contains my writing on The Visible and the Invisible chapter one, “Reflection a…

Vc.el is Emacs’s built-in interface for version control CLI tools.

Having used Emacs for several years now, I somehow hadn’t come across the prefix argument and active region behavior for one of the most well-known commands: occur.

I found my room remarkably quiet.

I first encountered a mention of Simon Blackburn’s 1999 Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy when I was looking for a good introductory book to philosophy.

Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel (2014) [1] is a phenomenal introduction to epistemology.

Table of Contents Summary Helpful sources What are citation systems?

Transparency in Emacs isn’t that great.

Table of Contents What is cape?

Table of Contents Synopsis Corfu What is corfu?

Table of Contents Synopsis Marginalia All-the-icons-completion Vertico Basic Extensions Vertico extension commands Niceties End product Orderless Basic Style dispatchers End product Changelog Footnotes Synopsis § Apr 5, 2025 Readers should be aware that s…

The origins of the “great books idea” § The Great Books of the Western World is a landmark event for the manifestation of the “great books idea,” a campaign whose ideal was a liberal education.

Beauty § Rarely do moments of clarity arrive: ephemeral gifts recognized only a beat too late.

TL;DR § Don’t be distracted by the allure of backlinks; a good knowledge management practice provides more value.

Table of Contents TL;DR Core concepts The Master List The Main View What good is Amazing Marvin’s system?