Everything Tastes Better With Chilli

There is a cliche that most blog posts consist of descriptions of their blogging setup and subsequent rewrites.

This is now my third full year of intentionally tracking my reading.

TL;DR Summary: The Emacs built-in LSP implemention, Eglot, uses the native project functionality to help configure your source project.

Last year I started an effort to track, and partly as a result, be more intentional about books I read.

This year I decided to not only make more of an effort to read more, but to actually capture what I read, and while it wasn't the primary goal the ability to do this year's-end post was enticing (I'm always impressed by people like Fogus).

It's a common observation that social media and screens have had a negative effect on people's attention spans.

There's an oft-quoted Unix philosophy that tools should do one thing only, and do it well: searching, filtering, manipulation, etc, with the idea being the shell can quickly combine these into more sophisticated custom functionality.

As Emacs treesitter support matures, I've been adopting more and more of the built-in converted modes, for example python-ts-mode in place of python-mode, etc.

The other day I was working on a Java application deployment, experimenting with some claimed performance improvements by installing native image libraries.

Update: 22nd January: As a commenter implies, things are in a fair bit of flux still.