Thanos Apollo

My recent posts about AI have been optimistic.

Two years ago I was a skeptic about GenAI.

I am deleting my Codeberg presence: accounts, mirrors, the lazy habit of treating a “nice” forge as neutral ground.

Is contributing to FOSS worth it?

Since I had no interesting books to read today, nor interesting films to watch, I decided to scavenge for the most intriguing content one can find online.

You can now import Anki decks into gnosis.

jabber.el is an XMPP client for Emacs, originally written in 2003.

The more I use gnosis, the more I notice design faults inherited from the software I was previously using.

I’m excited to announce the release of version 0.8.0 for gnosis.

I’ve been looking for Patristic content for my Bebliotheca project, a digital recreation of the library of Constantinople.

I just pushed a new version for org-gnosis, the note taking module of gnosis, which you can find here.

I’ve finally published Gnosis version 0.7.0 that brings some much needed changes and integration with org-gnosis.

Contributing to Git Projects with Magit: PRs, Patches & Agit workflow Quick video guide on contributing to git projects using Magit.

Recently I switched my home server to GNU Guix, this is a quick guide on how I setup cgit.

This guide provides a quick setup for configuring Notmuch with GNU Emacs to handle multiple email addresses and enable automatic encryption.

After switching from Apple devices to GNU/Linux, I’ve enjoyed numerous advantages.

If you are anything like me, you probably feel something is wrong whenever you have to input text outside of Emacs.

Gnosis just got a major update with this new release.

Emacs Note Taking & Journaling with org-gnosis Video notes Org Gnosis Overview Org Gnosis Organization of Gnosis (Knowledge) Org Gnosis a a minimal org-mode parsing tool that organizes the data of your notes as atomic nodes in an sqlite database.

Emacs As Your Terminal Emulator Emacs As Your Terminal Emulator [Video] Emacs offers an enhanced experience for interacting with shell tools & may be the most extensible terminal emulator available.

I’ve been working on a “roam-like” note taking system, to replace & update my current org-roam workflow.

Emacs 30 Built-in Completion UI & Styles Video notes: When referring to “Emacs Completions”, I refer to Completion Styles & UI I’ve often relied on third-party packages to emulate features from other text editors.

Installing GNU Guix | Using non-free kernel drivers (Nonguix) Notes shown in the video: GNU Guix is a GNU distribution Provides an emacs-like operating system, using guile scheme as it’s configuration language.

org-roam was my preferred tool for note taking & journaling, but since it’s author seems to have stepped down & it’s implementation is quite different from how I’d approach making a zettelkasten for Emacs, I decided to start working on a new package, named

I’ve just published a short video covering the basics of RSS, RSS-Bridge & Elfeed, it’s currently available on YouTube.

I’ve just uploaded a short video on why I prefer VC over Magit, alongside a quick demo workflow with VC.

What’s the most important thing for storing knowledge?

A summarized version of my presentation on penicillins for my pharmacology course.

XMPP is a libre decentralized collection of technologies, alternative to closed communication services.

Jellyfin is my favorite service to self host, I’ve been using it for movies & books and I’d even consider using it for photos if not for Immich.

I’ve recently transitioned to a pixel phone with GrapheneOS as my primary device, moving from an iPhone.

Emacs is my ride or die software, where I do all my computing.

VPS services, the pinnacle of freedom in the digital world!

Email, hate it or love it, we all have to deal with it.

Gnosis (γνῶσις) is a spaced repetition system (SRS) implementation for note taking and self testing, for GNU Emacs.

In this post I’m essentially publicizing my notes on spaced repetition software, and announcing that I’m working on gnosis, a spaced repetition learning extension/package for GNU Emacs.

I’ve leveled up to become a Gentoo user, the most elite nerd species in GNU/Linux Land.

Today’s web needs more .org sites.

Eshell is my favorite shell, but it’s not as polished or well documented for daily tasks.

Returning to Firefox from Nyxt, while preserving the Emacs-style workflow and keybindings.

Hosting SearXNG has been the easiest one to setup thus far, it literally takes 5 minutes.

To learn elisp I decided to work on a project that I’ve felt was missing on the GNU Emacs ecosystem, a direct front-end for YouTube.