Aleksandr Petrosyan

This is a blog post dedicated to the configuration language of my favourite editor: Emacs.

This is the unofficial name that was given to the controversy that involved a blatant violation of the GitHub terms of service, and instigated a personal attack on the founder of Free Software Foundation, Richard Matthew Stallamann.

Preface Link to heading This is an interesting discussion with many people that have in one way or another echoed the point of view that cryptocurrencies in general are a blight on society.

In this post I will try to summarise my experience with all things LSP (language server protocol).

This is a rather long-winded piece of wisdom that I have picked up from multiple sources.

Keeping your emacs speedy Link to heading This is a topic that came up because of three things.

This is a semi-rant, but I believe a worthwhile use of my time.

How to learn to program Link to heading [!

Declarative configuration in Emacs Link to heading In Emacs, it is often easiest to install a package in one’s initialising configuration file; also known as init.el, usually located at ~/config/emacs/init.el, but also historically at ~/.emacs.d/init.el as

Emacs in 2024 Link to heading I’m a major user of Emacs.

This is not meant to be a detailed comparison, just a back-of-the-envelope guide explaining why you should or shouldn’t use a particular program in particular circumstances. sudo Link to heading This program is sadly, considered the default on most GNU+Li…

Writers block and how to deal with it Link to heading It’s rough analogue is brain constipation.

This is a very controversial topic and perhaps one that will land me a lot of enemies.

::: info I must preface this by pointing to something that should be blindingly obvious, but shall be taken out of context regardless.

A case against “Cat-v considered harmful” Link to heading Introduction Link to heading This is a rant that’s a long time coming, and it is a lukewarm shot at a community that I have a love-hate relationship with.

This is quite an interesting experience.

How to set up Magit forge Link to heading Magit is an excellent package with incredible depth.

SSH has some of the dumbest ideas in UX.

I’ve had complaints about Markdown for years.

This is a continuation of the rant about static site generation systems.

This is a blog post dedicated to my, and many other people’s favourite text editor.

This is perhaps a fitting beginning to the first blog post on my home page.