Back in 2020, I wrote a semi-automatic yasnippet to generate Swift initializers. I say semi-automatic because it could have been a little smarter. Whi...

I wrote about bibliography management in the past. I will keep this post simple.

EmacsConf 2022: GRAIL---A Generalized Representation and Aggregation of Information Layers - Sameer Pradhan (he/him)
https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/grail

00:00:00 Introduction
01:13 Processing language
02:34 Annotation
03:43 Learning from data
04:39 Manual…

Last weekend, 200ok and Ardeo were proud to be satellite venues for
the reClojure and EmacsConf conferences. As an official satellite
of the GNU EmacsConf conference, we had the opportunity to host
some of the most talented speakers and attendees in the Free…

Paredit is an Emacs package for structural editing. It is particularly useful in Lisp languages to manipulate expressions instead of just characters.
One of the numerous little features of Paredit is the automatic insertion of a space character before a delimiting…

Why? Look… If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve probably noticed that ChatGPT is a hot topic on the internet.
Rightfully so, if you ask me. This thing is amazing. I got no words.
I am not going to explain it because I do not feel like I am the…

Manuscript writing is really the thing that I (should) do to bring bread and butter on the table. An end. Programming is just a means to an end. I again promise you that I will talk about this topic (means vs end) in detail in a later post in this series.

I don’t know why I’m quite so tickled by this, but today I learned
that you can make multi-line git commit messages by passing multiple
-m arguments:

I've been working on a Zig project in my spare time for the last few weeks:
jiacai2050/simargs: A simple, opinionated, struct-based argument parser in Zig. Here I want to share the experience learned during the development of simargs. Since simargs is my…

The ‘sxhkdrc-mode’ package for Emacs provides a major mode for editing sxhkdrc files (Simple X Hot Key Daemon).

A couple of weeks ago I made a spectacular and quite unexpected return to Android, after a long period of being exclusively in Apple’s mobile devices ecosystem. My last Android phone was the Sony Xperia Arc, which I bought way back in 2011. Afterwards I got…

Now I have my \(\mathrm{B{\scriptstyle{IB}} \! T\!_{\displaystyle E} \! X}\) file (day 13) and a markdown writing mode (day 14). Now I need to be scholar and cite all the papers by the big shots in my field. How do I actually cite references in a paper?

Someone complained earlier today that my Pixel 6A article was picked up by Planet Emacslife. While I wasn’t involved in adding my blog there and I never promised to write exclusively about Emacs, this is a good opportunity to remind people my blog has several…

If I could select, I won’t select \(\LaTeX\) to write my papers. Usually, the decisions to write in \(\LaTeX\) were not made by me, but my collaborators. I maintain that \(\LaTeX\) should be an intermediate format. A target to be compiled to. But there are…

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