Information about the latest version of my ‘spacious-padding’ package for GNU Emacs.

Journelly keeps getting updated with good features. One of …

Today, I was reading Why Use Structured Errors in Rust Applications? and one of the issues discussed is jumping away from the code you're working on to look at the definition of the error. On the one hand, rust-analyzer makes it really easy to jump to the…

I’ll be pretty brief today. keyboard-quit (C-g) is one of the most used commands, but unfortunately it’s not very smart. Most annoyingly, it doesn’t work as expected when the minibuffer is active. Fortunately, fixing such problems (and then some) is trivial…

Heredocs in Ruby are quite common, quite flexible, and… somewhat weird. Still, this doesn’t stop people from suggesting more features for them, like this (rejected) proposal for an anonymous heredocs syntax: # regular Ruby code Markdown.render <<~MARKDOWN…

Because the Internet, it is a blessing of our time that interacting with people in different time zones is commonplace. In this, the question is often raised: “what time is it there?” This is...

Today’s article is going to be a bit more weird than usual… mostly because I’ve set to write about one topic, and ended up about writing something completely different in the end… Here we go! TL;DR Many common macOS keybindings (e.g. Command-s, Command-z…

Lately, I've been messing with Codelist Tools, a Rust library for working with medical codelists. Among other things, it uses PyO3 to provide bindings that enable its use from Python. I had not tried this before. It's fun!
It occurred to me that it should…

Tree-sitter has taken the world of programming by a storm. Together with LSP, it’s probably the technology that has influenced the most programming editors and IDEs in the past several years. And now that Emacs 29+ comes with built-in Tree-sitter support…

I just published a video about a Reddit post in which an Obsidian user asks about Emacs: pros and cons, and “aha” moments. I’m not [...]

I want to try to keep my journal notes in Journelly, and …

I’m hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival. Submit your blog posts on the topic “Take Two” in June to participate!