I’ve promised you articles about OCaml and here they come! The first order of business when learning a new programming language is to setup Emacs for effective programming in it.

Yesterday I released nREPL 1.0. I hadn’t really planned to have the release then, but after cutting CIDER 1.5 (“Strasbourg”) a bit earlier that day, I decided that this was The Day. nREPL 1.0 is a tiny release in terms of changes and that’s OK. It means we’ve…

Although I primarily use Emacs, I love the idea of vim text objects, and wanted to incorporate them into my editing. The Kakoune introduct...

I noticed a pattern during work video calls: I found myself regularly sharing my screen and opening Notepad to capture notes and for...

One thing that was a bit weird for me in OCaml early on was how to introduce multiple let bindings (e.g. in the body of a function definition). Think something like this in Clojure:

I use EVIL text object a lot. For example, press vi( to select the code snippet inside parenthesis.



I could also press vib to do exactly same thing as vi( because below code in EVIL's evil-maps.el

After struggling to renew my certs for the third time in a row, hopefully these pointers should keep me on track for the next time.
Namecheap does not yet support automatic wildcard renewal for the Letsencrypt/Certbot combo. Check next year. Have your Namecheap…

More diving into Org Mode and Emacs.
I have a stuff-to-do.org file, that serves as an inbox for most long term tasks that I want to tackle. Stuff that needs doing, books that I want to buy, books that I want to read, courses that I want to learn, movies or…

Issue By default, when replying or forwarding an email, the signature is put at the end of the email body. This means that it is even below the cited text of the original email.
This is a weird behavior since I want to sign my own text and not all of the…

Information about the latest version of my colourful-yet-legible themes for GNU Emacs.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Learn how to take control of Emacs's roundabout window placement. There's method to its madness, but that does not mean you have to put up with it!

In this article I'll demystify how Emacs's window manager works and how you -- with a bunch of templates…

Information about the latest version of my Denote package for GNU Emacs.

I use a (not quite) hidden blog to collect all sorts of bits and bobs and to (selectively and automatically) publish them to my fediverse or twitter accounts.
The one thing that constantly bugged me, was that it would not accept line breaks to differentiate…