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Every so often I suffer from what I call "Emacs Fatigue". It's closely related to "Text File Fatigue". Using Emacs tends to pull one toward using it for everything, which is what I'd done. Then, I simply grow tired of staring at the same thing every day. When this happens,…

So, someone recreated the entire Adobe Creative Suite, open-source, all platforms, in Rust. Artcraft. I haven't gone further than to launch PhotoCraft, but it sure is ambitious!

Regarding "vibe-coded" apps, my current…

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This is a spontaneous live stream. I am working on a new feature for my ‘denote’ Emacs package. The idea is to implement an optional in-memory cache that can help speed up certain operations.

A couple of weeks ago, I moved all of my Denote (Org mode) notes into Bear app on my Mac. I was feeling trapped by Org mode. I was tired of…

Frozen light yellow clouds hover under a grey sky, illuminated by the horizon sun.

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“I have never seen the sky like that before”, I thought to myself while gazing with my whole mind and body in wonder. The colour of the sky has a certain magnetism. When…

This is an entry from my journal.

Living in the present moment demands situational awareness. You pay attention to your immediate surroundings and you notice changes in your environment. Those you discern exactly because you have a mental representation of the setting. Change is understood as the difference between one…

As a habitual early adopter, I couldn't help but install my own instance of littleFedi and kick the tires. It didn't take long before I decided to move there.

I liked the software immediately. It was fast, simple (considering all the features), and easy to install.

I put up a…

Ben Thompson:

what struck me about Gurman’s article is just how unenthused I am by an Apple smarthome product. Some of this is fatigue from a decade of Siri disappointment and skepticism about the company’s ability to deliver on a voice-centric product. More than that, however, I bristle at…

• 9 months since my last status update >.< sigh
• I've been spending most of my time recently learning about wayland. Not only to have fun tinkering with my desktop environment but also because I have a big project I'm working on and wayland is at the center of it.

Wayland…

I want to give all my breath to the song, listening to every transcendent, liminal, spooky note, accompanied by intertwined tracks of coded and pure voice. I want to sing out the words I know loudly, and read all those I don’t know so that I may sing as much…