Out of the box, sorting a Dired buffer is rather underwhelming. In this post I describe how to improve that. But before we get into details, let’s see what the end-result looks like. For the...

Once again, I have collected far too many links over far too long a period of time. Anyhow, here is a collection of blog posts and links from around the web that I found to be good reading over the past couple of months. Is it too late in January to say Happy…

Over on Exercism, they have something called The #48in24 Challenge. I'm not exactly sure what it's about, but it started this week with the leap year problem.
This is a fun little problem. A leap year in the Gregorian calendar is a year that is divisible…

Updated to Emacs 29.2, just now. Took me and my four core workhorse about fifteen minutes tops, from start to finish.
Emacs 29.0 was the first version I compiled from source, because I wanted the latest release as soon as it was out and I no longer had the…

Hey, Emacs 29.2 was released yesterday! Let's install it!
First, make sure we have all the dependencies.
❯ sudo apt build-dep emacs Emacs 28+ includes native compilation. We definitely want that, so make sure we have libgccjit.
❯ gcc --version gcc (Debian…

I must admit to stealing … quite a lot … from a bot at that!
Zoetrope’s, “random color contrasts” gets colours from Adam Morse and John Otander’s Randoma11ly and posts them a few times a day.
I’ve been writing down the ones I love and find interesting, in…

A blog about expermenting with Emacs

Video demonstration of new Denote (Emacs) features to link to Org headings and to create new notes from existing headings.

Writing accented characters in Emacs can help you craft richer documents. This is especially valuable in you write in Greek, Latin, or other!