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Emacs: flat Dired listing for REGEXP, optionally up to DAYS since last modification

Interpretation of “In the night of the others” by Trypes

Games: Tales of Berseria

Interpretation of “My expatriated birds” by Alkyone (traditional)

Selfie: beardless once again

Games: Limbo

Games: Age of Empires II

On the absence of Greeks from Hollywood’s Odyssey movie

Re: On learning something new

Re: Living in seclusion and the woman question

Games: Hyper Light Drifter

Re: how to avoid doing XYZ when I want to do ABC?

Games: Borderlands 3

Games: Florence (plus the First Six Months of Love)

Emacs live with Sacha Chua about ‘May I recommend’ on Thursday 28 May 17:30 Europe/Athens

Selfie: experiment with light and shadow

Games: Gorogoa

Games: What Remains of Edith Finch

Life issues and practical philosophy with Amin Bandali

Selfie: something a little bit more artistic

Emacs: ef-arcadia and ef-atlantis are part of the ef-themes

Emacs: Denote version 4.2.0

Comment on a Marxist critique of Free Software

Emacs coaching with Amin Bandali about ffs, display-buffer-alist, Org, and more

Philosophy: reading my ‘The mask of Phantes’ story

The mask of Phantes

Western strategic constraints in the war on Iran

Philosophy: Hades, introspection, wealth, misery, and resurrection

Emacs coaching with Amin Bandali

On Yanis Varoufakis’ appearance at ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast

Selfie: it snowed, then I got some sunshine

On the coming economic crisis

Re: Emacs and keyboard ergonomics

Emacs: save any buffer as PDF (my new buffer-to-pdf package)

Selfie: from scholar to pirate

Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua

Doing what I must

Philosophy: violence, safe spaces, and inevitability

Selfie: looking sideways

Emacs live stream with Sacha Chua on 2026-04-30 17:30 Europe/Athens

Selfie: the dogman (technically not a selfie)

Interpretation of “Do not ask me” by Manos Loizos

Interpretation of “The world that changes” by Alkinoos Ioannidis

That which is inescapable

Not interfering in the affairs of others

A lunch without alcohol

There goes another Easter

Emacs modus-themes live stream today @ 14:00 Europe/Athens

Interpretation of “The Elves” by Socratis Malamas & Ioulia Karapataki

Selfie: a casual afternoon

Emacs live stream with Sacha Chua on 2026-04-16 17:30 Europe/Athens

Prot Asks: Hjalmar about Emacs for music, the joy of art, and Internet sociability

Learning from the land

When knowing it all does not matter

Emacs coaching with Sacha Chua

Sacrifice in the era of the adultchild

Philosophy: about the God of war, anger, and nuance

Maintaining projects long-term

Prot Asks: Arkadiusz about blindness, Emacspeak, Hyperbole, Chinese and Slavic culture

Emacs: doric-themes version 1.1.0

Emacs: spontaneous live stream Monday 23 March @ 17:00 Europe/Athens

The responsibility to keep flowing

Maintaining the long-term view

Preparing for springtime

Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs

Selfie: beard and hair are growing

My Emacs talk for FLOSS @ Oxford

This Thursday I will talk about Emacs @ OxFLOSS (FLOSS @ Oxford)

Taking it easy

I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues

Finding enthusiasm in the face of boredom

Selfie: reviewing some manual labour I did earlier

Keeping calm in the face of war and uncertainty

International relations and impunity

Interpretation of “I now begin to remember” by Pavlos Pavlides

Selfie: a portrait of me by Ro

Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art

Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art

Selfie: the loquat tree is doing well

Emacs: confirm package bugs with –init-directory

Interpretation of “My old troubles” by Kadinelia

Emacs: I will talk about Emacs and free software (FLOSS @ Oxford)

Selfie: sunshine at last

Philosophy: about a person’s behaviour and outlook

Emacs: add custom entity (Austrian school) to my ‘institution-calendar’

Selfie: the rivers are back

Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0

Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.)

The guerrilla fighters

Emacs: doric-themes version 1.0.0

Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency

Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency

Re: Self haircut tips

Selfie: WEBP means selfies are back on the menu

Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and ‘doric-copper’

Interpretation of “God himself” by Blé (Giorgia Kefalá)

Interpretation of “You stopped evoking love” by Pyx Lax

Interpretation of “I am not another” by Christos Thivaios

Interpretation of “Full moon” by Haris Alexiou

The desire for control

Touching grass

Emacs: ef-themes version 2.1.0

Journalling without the mental block

Emacs: tmr version 1.3.0

While the moon grows I keep going

Winter silence

Emacs: easily set timers with TMR

Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 1.3.0

Teaching dogs and learning from them

The rainy days

Re: how are you fearless and how do you deal with anxiety?

New battery for the hut

Emacs: Substitute version 0.5.0

Emacs: ef-orange and ef-fig are part of the ef-themes

Re: about AI, authenticity, and identity crisis

About fireworks and the different kinds of people

Emacs: modus-themes version 5.2.0

Emacs Lisp Elements: EPUB and PDF versions now available

Re: what are your thoughts on discipline and virtue and what are your habits?

Emacs: refinements to the Denote file prompt

Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.8.0

‘Emacs Lisp Elements’ book version 2

Interpretation of “Andromeda” by Thanasis Papakonstantinou

Emacs: new Modus themes tool to generate a complete palette

Emacs: doric-themes version 0.5.0

Emacs: new ‘denote-merge’ package

Tenting my split mechanical keyboard with magnets

Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-siren’ and ‘doric-mermaid’

Argie the white wolf who could not become a sheep

Writing to refine my ideas and discover new ones

Slowing down and appreciating the little things

Rolling boulders

Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons

Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons

Emacs: modus-themes version 5.0.0

Selfie: out for an evening walk

Selfie: until I build my Cyclopean masonry

Selfie: after unearthing and rolling the boulder

Selfie: prettifying the stairs with odds and ends

Selfie: while finalising the stairs

Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity

Selfie: absorbing the sun

Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity

Selfie: with two of my dogs in the background

Selfie: just a casual evening

Selfie: walk on a sunny afternoon

Selfie: did the first haircut trim, now to refine it

Selfie: after some more infrastructure work

Selfie: disentangling grapevines from fig trees

The two sides of commitment

Selfie: handling grapevines

Where to start with mechanical keyboards

Selfie: work, then cold water

Selfie: along a dirt road

The werewolf moment

Selfie: holding the sledgehammer

Prot Asks: Ovi about Clojure development and business, Emacs, and AI

Selfie: just another day in my mountains

Selfie: resting after a few hours on the computer

Selfie: on a quiet afternoon

Selfie: during a long walk on a cloudy day

Selfie: after another day of manual labour

Selfie: sunny with a few clouds

Interpretation of “Enchantress” by Protesilaos

Selfie: a sketch of me by Ekaitz Zarraga

Emacs: tmr version 1.2.0

Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten

My impression of the marketing around mechanical keyboard switches

Interpretation of “At this world’s bankruptcy” by Nikolas Asimos

When there is no way, you have to dig

Re: How do you walk four dogs?

Philosophy: first you walk, then you think for yourself

Conditioning the inner critic

Re: is ancient Sparta an influence on you?

Re: how do you do food?

The blood moon and my place in the world

Όταν η πατρίδα σου είναι θεματικό πάρκο

When your country is a theme park

Interpretation of “I need” by Vasilis Papakonstantinou

Interpretation of “Personally” by Penny Baltatzi

Freedom within robust constraints

Re: how could you separate puppies from their mother?

About building an audience and making public contributions

The feral black dog and the wild red fox

The year my dogs got old

Philosophy: is it “my body; my rules”?

The “cool uncle” archetype

America is destined to pursue interventionism

On the EU’s strategic weakness

Between humans and other animals

Developing oneself through crisis

Two baby foxes

Interpretation of “Alkaline leaves” by Ioulia Karapataki

Finding sobriety more meaningful than psychedelics

A shiny Pokemon named ‘Prot’

Rediscovering Jasmine

Interpretation of “Ode to the Sun” by Kleopas

The invisible man

The garden and the forest