Hristos N. Triantafillou

This post is a reflection on over ten years of Emacs usage.

Fallout 1 is "a post nuclear role playing game" released October 10th, 1997 on DOS, PC, and Mac platforms.

Some time ago, using to more easily install and run the original Morrowind executable on Linux via wine.

In April 2023, I wrote about getting a Framework Laptop in December of 2022, putting Void Linux on it, and using it as my daily driver.

I've written about this before but I think the time is ripe for another look at the topic - how can Morrowind be enjoyed on a modern Linux distro?

It may seem like an odd intersection but leveraging CI/CD patterns can vastly improve both the developer and user experience if you're a content creator such as a mod-maker.

This past December I decided to replace my eight year old personal development machine (a Lenovo Ideapad Y510p) with .

is a portable gaming device that runs an Arch-based Linux distro called "SteamOS".

I've recently taken the plunge on what some may consider a "cheap" guitar since it's obviously a knockoff of a very well known and much more expensive model.

I've about how it is viable to use a custom Emacs setup, but I didn't go too far into the details about what it's like to actually take that route.

is an exquisitely powerful, free game engine.

Previously, which is driven by free software.

A while back, I did a post on playing .

Some time ago, I decided to convert my Django-based blog to a static website.

It seems to be widely accepted that creating a powerful, useful Emacs setup "by hand" is just too much trouble, and you should choose a "distro" like Doom Emacs.

As a follow up to my earlier pieces about using MPD , I present to you a rundown of my current setup for listening to music with MPD.

I've about enjoying retroconsoles, specifically with the excellent distribution.

A web application that will serve audio and video files over HTTP, and is usable on viewports of all sizes. is something I made for myself, but it is dedicated to all music-lovers of the world.

A while back, setting up a runit service for an Emacs daemon.

Having grown up with what are now considered "classic" or "retro" game consoles, as an adult that enjoys video games I find myself in particular still facsinated by these older platforms.

I've recently completed my first video production, and virtually the entire process was done on Linux.

As far as I know, official support for primus functionality on Linux is somewhat limited.

I've recently had the urge to remove Windows 10 from my gaming PC and go 100% Void Linux.

Back when I was first learning to program, part of that learning experience involved rolling my own blog engine using Django.

Earlier this year I did an expansion to my entries on MPD, sort of a state of my setup piece, and I've decided to do the same thing for my Emacs and Python setups as well.

So, you want to run an Emacs daemon as a runit service - and you also want to connect to it in your desktop session.

I figured it was time for a follow-up to my previous entries on MPD that describes the current state of my setup with all of its evolutions.

With a good suite of Selenium tests, you could have full confidence that your application fully works without manually using any part of it yourself.

This clip is a testament to the living nature of the world in this game.

This clip demonstrates BotW's slick fire and physics.

This is a clip of me nailing a win while riding a blue stuffed teddy bear.

Normally I wouldn't bother writing a piece about games because I don't play enough of them to comment on the state of what's out now.

For me, 2017 has been an utterly fantastic year for music.

For a very long time, maybe close to eight years, I've used as my terminal emulator.

Behold the glory that is ncmpcpp's visualizer!

If you didn't know, is a nifty tool that lets you encrypt things for use with Ansible.

Normally when I want to do anything with Emacs it's a matter of writing some Elisp code and poof, I've got what I want.

Tonight I went to see Soulfly play the Nailbomb record "Point Blank" in its entirety - openers were Lodi Kong, Noisem, and Cannabis Corpse.

Not too short since the target host is slow, but you know.

This tune was penned and played by a band I jammed with in high school.

I recently felt the need for a rotating desktop background - that is one that switches the image every so often.

Imagine the following scenario: you keep the dotfiles for several machines under one git repo with some submodules, including one machine which clones a submodule from a GitHub repo that I own (so it's cloned over SSH, not HTTPS.)

This is a quick track I recorded to test my whole recording setup, as I set it up.

This is a very rough recording of a jam session of mine.

In this entry I'll discuss what is needed to run Morrowind via OpenMW, and how to get it -- but also in a way that's reproducible and mostly independent of your distribution.

N64 is nowhere near my favorite classic console, but I won't hesitate to agree that it is home to the best wresting video games ever made.

I recently grabbed a bluetooth speaker, intending to mostly use it with my phone, but I quickly found myself wanting to play my laptop's MPD through it.

I've recently decided to stick an SSD into an old Thinkpad T61 I have in an effort to make using it less painful.

For about three or four years now, I've been a pretty happy user.

I rolled out a new style for the site a few weeks ago - I've dropped for and cleaned up the style in general.