Where Are The Wise Men?

This month's Emacs Carnival theme is The Search For Knowledge, which is kinda something near and dear to my heart.

I feel like a bad Emacs user because, while I've been using it for a long time, it's only been in the past few months that I have embraced Orgmode as my task manager.

It's been a while since I wrote for the Emacs Blog Carnival but I have missed it.

I've always been a bit picky about fonts in books, the web, programming, etc.

A few weeks back I wrote about Maps and how MapUtils.isEmpty from Apache Commons Collections made the null-checks go away with isEmpty.

I'm back doing Java stuff for a while, and a lot of our codebase uses Maps a lot.

This is my Emacs Carnival post this month on Mistakes and Misconceptions.

In my last post I mentioned I switched to Readeck as my read-it-later app.

I realized that my article from last fall on self-hosting on the NAS is now outdated.

This is part of the February 2026 Emacs Blog Carnival on Completion For me, completion is a odd thing to have as a carnival theme mostly because I just "do completion" and don't think about it.

I like Git a lot and I know how to use it fairly well..

This is to join in on October 2025's Emacs Blog Carnval: Maintenance This is an ironic subject for me, because my Emacs config is full of stuff – and some of it I use.

This is my entry to the Emacs Carnvial - Obscure Packages.

This article from Glyph talks about not using the __init__ dunder function to initialize a class and instead use the dataclass in the standard library.

A couple of weeks ago I read a long article about Lotus Agenda.

This is my submission for the August Emacs Carnival – the Emacs Elevator Pitch.

The shutdown of Pocket (that I didn't hadn't used in a long while) got me into self-hosting my RSS Reader and my Read-It Later systems.

This is to join in on this month's Emacs Blog Carnival: The Writing Experience.

This is part of the Emacs: Carnival: Take Two challenge.

The last few months I really been heavy into software development and, honestly, that is my happy place.

I've been doing a lot of work in SQLAlchemy lately and I'm continually impressed with how easy it is for the basic things but also how it can also handle complicated items.

I am not sure how I discovered git-worktrees but I'm sure glad that I did.

I saw a few posts on r/emacs about Hyperbole, including some videos, and I -put it in a tab- save the URL to look at it later.

I now have a pretty structured way to configure my projects -- I use Nix and direnv and then the language-specific files.

My Solution Log History As a software engineer, I have been a believer in a solutions log -- a place where you record the solution to a really sticky problem you had ,or a surprise that you didn't expect.

About a year ago I started playing with Nix and it has become as essential as Docker and Emacs for my local development environments.

Every Saturday, I try to wake up before anyone else.

It's pretty simple to figure out that Cortex is my favorite podcast.

A little while ago I ran into someone and we ended up chatting about this blog.

A few weeks ago, I was surprised when I was asked to demo a webservice that I wrote.

My previous post about my bullet journal got me thinking of rapid logging, and got me thinking about how projects in Todoist aren't just working for me – and suddenly I found myself in another Todo App Crisis.

1 If 2020 was the Year of Taking Notes, then 2021 is turning into the year of handwriting notes.

The idea of the new house started when we moved into the old one.

It was a long time ago when I first discovered Sudoku.

TL;DR – rclone truly is the Swiss Army knife of cloud storage and you should look into it if you have to deal with that world at all (S3, DropBox, OneDrive, etc).

Been thinking a lot lately of the current state of video games..

As this crazy year closes, my wife and I were chuckling about how many TV Series we binged while in isolation.

It was funny – the day after I finally put up a blog post I got an email from Webfaction that my account was closed.

Hey it's December and it's my second blog of 2020.

This year I've discovered the blog Uses This and I'm fascinated by it.

Kasim Tuman recently wrote that Emacs is like a workbench.

For several months, I've been converting a few of my dotfiles into OrgMode files and using tangling to generate the config file and the same file generates HTML documentation.

It's funny as I have hit solidly middle age, when you figure things about yourself that have always been there – but you have just noted it.

I'm not sure how many other people remember Nextel but I do, maybe because my first job out of college used them a lot.

I've gotten back to blogs again.

In an odd series of events, we played our Wii again for the first time in years.

Somehow, by accident, 2018 has become the year of Emacs.

Lots of little ideas in my head that don't seem to make up a good post for each one, so I'm putting them into on.

Some things on editing I found this weekend: EDITOR vs VISUAL .

https://i.imgur.com/Sh7r8I4.jpg I started brewing beer over a year ago and, for some reason, I haven't blogged about it.