Emacs has long had a competent spell checker, and it's capable of distinguishing code from prose, which is useful to many. But Emacs 28 adds a compelling dictionary lookup feature that warrants a much closer look.

For the past twenty years, you have been the bane of my existence.
I slept with the phone by the bedside, never knowing when Mummy would call, and
one of us would have to come find you and dig you out of the newest hole you dug for yourself. And none of those…

Information about my notmuch email counter for the mode line of GNU Emacs.

How to clear the Eshell screen and move the prompt on top

I wrote the other day, about switching to Noah Webster’s dictionary everywhere, I possibly could. Now I did that after reading this lovely James Somers post. And that post seems to be resounding through the web, with folks integrating it into their workflows…

My personal website

While I mostly use the keyboard when doing everything Org related, there are a few times in the day, when I cannot. These are mostly mornings and evenings when I bustle about home, doing this thing and that. Things that are part of my routine. Things that…

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

Self reflection tips to become a better person

Now that I have Debian bookworm up to date, I can install Emacs 28.2!
sudo apt build-dep emacs sudo apt install libgccjit-12-dev sudo apt install libjansson-dev cd ~/Downloads gpg --verify emacs-28.2.tar.xz.sig cd tar xf ~/Downloads/emacs-28.2.tar.xz cd emacs…

I wrote about Exploring the Denote Emacs Package and Migration Plan for Org-Roam Notes to Denote; this is now my configuration for using Denote. This sits orthogonal to my data migration of notes into Denote paradigm.
I’m writing the data migration scripts…

Name squatting & RFCs