I got reminded yesterday that Emacs is not a proper GTK application after installing Windows 11 to make use of its built-in support for Linux GUI apps running in WSL. Windows uses Wayland/Weston and the results are great with native GTK apps like GEdit, but…

17 years ago the famous blogger John Gruber, of Daring Fireball fame, introduced the concept of a “link log”/”linkblog”:1 I’ve always thought of those as “link posts”. ↩

With Emacs, we can customise the Org agenda to pull in information from different sources and place it in a single view.

Today I encountered a bug that was specific to JDK 16 on a project I was working on, and I needed to switch back my Java version to something older. I realized I had forgotten (once again) how to switch between multiple Java version on Ubuntu (Debian), so…

How to leverage `shell-command` history.

Creating a Docker image isn’t particularly difficult, but I never do
it often enough to remember the incantations required. Yesterday I
needed a Docker image for running CI jobs on Circle CI.
There are some great pre-built images out there, but I couldn’t…

nREPL 0.9 is out! We’ve been working on it for over a year, but we finally got where we wanted to be. The highlight of the release is undoubtedly the support for Unix file sockets, which are a secure and fast alternative to TCP sockets for local development.…

A while ago I’ve created a Discord server for conversations related to Emacs Redux and my open-source Emacs projects (e.g. Emacs Prelude, crux and Projectile). One thing that I forgot to do was announce it, therefore this short article. Feel free to join…

Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios - microsoft/wslg

Today I’ve learned about edamagit, a super faithful port of Magit for VS Code. It looks pretty similar to Magit and even has the same keybindings as Magit (e.g. you display it with M-x g).