Abbrev is one of Emacs's oldest (and simplest) text expander tools. Here's how you can use it to auto-correct typos and misspellings.

In one of my game groups we’ve been talking about game systems and our personal values; in particular free and open source games.
One person recommended that we take a look at Tod Foley’s Creative Options Role-Playing Engine (CORE 📖) system. I am early in…

The Threading library Starting in Emacs 26 some very ambitious changes were added. Basic thread support was enabled, laying the groundwork for a future concurrent emacs. The docs layout this possibility:
Emacs Lisp provides a limited form of concurrency…

The Emacs Lisp syntax error should be automatically detected by CI (Continuous Integration).



Syntax errors could be a bit difficult to locate. For example, developers might use Emacs 28+ only APIs

I recently picked up DayTrippers GameMasters Guide (DayTrippers: GMG 📖) by Tod Foley, and paint me impressed. It’s a toolkit that helps facilitate running DayTrippers (DayTrippers 📖), but holy crap is it so much more.
Let’s look at the Table of Contents:…

If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking. – Leslie Lamport

I love email! Shocker, right? Especially in this day and age, that are dominated by social media and instant messengers. I’ve got my reasons for this and I’ve covered them to some extent in the past.

Adding microformats to unwoundstack

A reader ask me recently how do I use custom domains for my email needs and I promised to write a short blog post about this. Promised fulfilled!