Today I’ve noticed that I’ve written 36 articles to date here, which beats my previous annual record of 34 articles from 2011. I definitely didn’t see this coming, especially given how tough the year has been for me on multiple levels.

In Emacs version 28 Emacs developers introduced so-called read symbol shorthands. If you’re interested in the rationale, feel free to search the Emacs developer mailing list for the discussion. However, it does seem that not everyone likes the idea of shorthands…

I was recently browsing through an old archive of holiday photos (from dired of course). I wanted to know where the photo was taken, which got me inte...

The first external dependency I install when setting up Emacs in a new environment is aspell . I do this because I use M-$ so routin...

EmacsConf is going strong in 2022. This year, we're going to have a physical venue in Switzerland, again. There where we can gather as a community, watch talks, hack all things Emacs, and have a good time together. Our host will be Ardeo (ardeo.ch). As a…