Occasionally I need to figure out which Debian package some file comes from (e.g. because I want to remove a redundant package or find related packages). There are a couple of ways to do this in Debian, with the simplest being the following:

It's a hack but it works: To stay in a room (or rather: let the bouncer stay there) and still close the buffer locally, it helps to change the major mode of the circe buffer: M-x fundamental-mode RET. ...

Why it is not a good idea to add modus-operandi and modus-vivendi to the base16 project.

Today I finished reading a book for the first time in a couple of months. As a matter of fact - I barely did any reading in the past couple of months. That rarely happens to me, as I’m the type of person who’s constantly reading something. It seems that lately…

The original html rendering library, shr.el, was written by Lars Ingebrigtsen and merged with an emacs - elisp - browser front end into Emacs Web Wowser, or EWW, released in 2013. It's included in the modern emacs core.

How to use ScalaCheck to evaluate performance of code

Integrate your Helm searchers with an uniform interface

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about music and the role it played in my life over the years. I think I’ve been pretty passionate about music ever since I discovered MTV and VH1 on cable television in 1995. As I’ve started to listen again to more music last…

Recently I worked in a giant Rails monolith repo. When I say giant, it
means multiple teams owning different modules inside the rails, and
there are thousands of files.

A blog about expermenting with Emacs

A function for keeping the projectile cache tidy.