I feel like a bad Emacs user because, while I've been using it for a long time, it's only been in the past few months that I have embraced Orgmode as my task manager. Sometime I will probably write about my journey to this point, but for now I want …

It's been a while since I wrote for the Emacs Blog Carnival but I have missed it. I decided to dip my toes back in when I saw July 2026's theme - Programming.

I started thinking about how my Emacs configuration for development isn't that special and then I realized that …

I've always been a bit picky about fonts in books, the web, programming, etc. I want something that is easy to read and tell characters apart. While some developers choose fonts that are very light so they can get more characters in a line or screen, I go with readability …

A few weeks back I wrote about Maps and how MapUtils.isEmpty from Apache Commons Collections made the null-checks go away with isEmpty. Since then, I've been poking around the rest of MapUtils and it turns out the isEmpty method is not the only goodie hidden in there. MapUtils also …

I'm back doing Java stuff for a while, and a lot of our codebase uses Maps a lot. Though it's a new project, the codebase leans heavily on the style of Java 7/8 and not with the new patterns that came with Java 9 and above. Here are some …

This is my Emacs Carnival post this month on Mistakes and Misconceptions.

Just in the past year, I realized something surprising: I no longer have vi muscle memory. I was a dedicated vi user for fifteen years before I switched to Emacs, and at some point it just… left. I …

In my last post I mentioned I switched to Readeck as my read-it-later app. It's starting to become essential to my workflow. The first thing that struck me was how fast it feels. My old Wallabag instance was sluggish when saving an article. Readeck saves asynchronously: you tell it to …

I realized that my article from last fall on self-hosting on the NAS is now outdated. Not only am I not hosting apps on my NAS anymore, but I'm not even using those apps anymore. I started using Pikapod to host my RSS and read-it-later apps. Pikapod hosts a lot …

This is part of the February 2026 Emacs Blog Carnival on Completion

For me, completion is a odd thing to have as a carnival theme mostly because I just "do completion" and don't think about it. I really had to do a lot of thinking just to figure out what …

I like Git a lot and I know how to use it fairly well.. I wouldn't consider myself an ultimate expert – more like an intermediate user that has found themselves in weird situations with Git and, most of the time, figuring out how to get out of them

My main …

This is to join in on October 2025's Emacs Blog Carnval: Maintenance

This is an ironic subject for me, because my Emacs config is full of stuff – and some of it I use. I do a lot of experimentation and trying out new packages. Some of them are "oh this …

This is my entry to the Emacs Carnvial - Obscure Packages.

It's funny to say that Transient is an obscure package not just because it's now bundled in Emacs, but also because one of the killer apps in Emacs – Magit – uses it. But how many people make their own Transient menus …

This article from Glyph talks about not using the __init__ dunder function to initialize a class and instead use the dataclass in the standard library. I read his post and experimented with this new way to make a constructor and decided that I totally agreed – this was a much cleaner …

A couple of weeks ago I read a long article about Lotus Agenda. I had heard of Agenda before – I had read man times that it was a much beloved niche product that was way ahead of it's time. You can read this particular article yourself – I'm not going to …

This is my submission for the August Emacs Carnival – the Emacs Elevator Pitch.

My pitch is simple, but then it takes a little while to explain:

Emacs works for you, you won't work for Emacs.

Overall I think the heart of my pitch reflects on my own personal belief about …

The shutdown of Pocket (that I didn't hadn't used in a long while) got me into self-hosting my RSS Reader and my Read-It Later systems. When I bought my Synology NAS a few years ago, I unknowingly bought a model that has an ARM processor, which does not support Docker …

This is to join in on this month's Emacs Blog Carnival: The Writing Experience.

The "Writing Experience" is a timely theme because I recently changed from using Obsidian for my note habit to Emacs. I'm not going into a long list of reasons why but it all comes down to …

This is part of the Emacs: Carnival: Take Two challenge.

This may be hard to believe, but when I first exposed to Emacs, I dismissed it almost immediately. I was taking a Unix class while at in the university and the horrible professor was an Emacs fan. He tried to …

Some Emacs tweaks that have made a big difference in my workflow

Setting up a complicated query to be a SQLAlchemy object

How I use git-worktrees

How I discovered Hyperbole and what it is to me

How I setup projects now, using CookieCutter

Talk about how I integrate Linking Your Thinking into my knowledge base/solution log

This is how I use Nix for my day to day work

This is what I do to review last week and to prep for the next

Apps that I use and why, 2021 edition

A little while ago I ran into someone and we ended up chatting about this blog. He asked an interesting question – "Why do you write the blog?". I didn't have an answer then and I'm not sure that I have one now, but I'm writing about it anyway.

A day …

A few weeks ago, I was surprised when I was asked to demo a webservice that I wrote. Since I didn't prep a Postman config for it (because I don't use Postman unless I have to, like during demos ) I got out Emacs and opened the orgfile that I had …

My previous post about my bullet journal got me thinking of rapid logging, and got me thinking about how projects in Todoist aren't just working for me – and suddenly I found myself in another Todo App Crisis.

I have a friend that that shares the productivity bug with me and …