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Writings

2023

• Ghost in the Machine
• Tweaking Vertico candidates
• Bandcamp and independent music
• CIDER and Clojure LSP
• Jump to minibuffer from completions
• Why Proust?
• Better built-in completions
• LaTeX footnotes and Tempel

2022

• My 2022
• Automatically format Clojure buffers
• A new filmsinwords.eu
• Jump to the last change in the buffer
• Giacomo Leopardi was a loser
• Update on Eglot and jdtls
• Working with diff-mode
• Automatically highlight regular expressions
• Ugrep and consult-xref
• Search thing at point with Ugrep
• Horcynus Orca
• Fix jdtls configuration for Eglot
• Forget the old dream
• Ugrep in Emacs
• The privileged classroom
• DivestOS on my Fairphone 2
• First steps with Ubuntu 22.04
• Restart Emacs
• The Red Horse
• Welcome SourceHut
• Eglot and Eclipse JDT for Java
• Eglot and digestif for LaTeX
• Ignore project buffers
• Handling wildcards in paths

2021

• My 2021 in films
• The best books of 2021
• The Mast-Head
• Completing shell commands
• Rebasing with VC
• Stashing with VC
• A job for VC
• On Eglot and VC
• He won, didn't he?
• Grep's good rep
• Package report
• Have I been good?
• Switching buffers (Take 3)
• Trust me, I complete
• A dictionary in Emacs
• Reuse Dired buffers
• I complete. You?
• Let Soderbergh talk
• Would Alfred Hitchcock use Emacs?
• Back to the roots
• Quick starting is a bendy road
• Punching masculinity
• Re-solutions

2020

• Embarking in a new affair with completions
• Restricting Flymake to my projects
• Extending project.el
• Emacs and Emanuele Severino
• Reliable REPL switching and buffer loading with CIDER
• We can fly with what we have
• It’s never too late
• The vast relativity of trauma
• The end of an era?
• The experience of watching
• Fifty shades of criticism
• Paper Emacs
• Notes on my digital consumption
• My reliable English dictionary
• Search only in visible buffers
• A machine in the ghost
• Lockdown Beam: volatile-highlights
• Lockdown Beam: native-complete
• Lockdown Beam: mark-thing-at
• Lockdown Beam: hide-mode-line
• Lockdown Beam: git-identity
• Comrades, it’s a love story
• Lockdown Beam: eldoc-eval
• Lockdown Beam: bm.el
• Light is right, alright?
• A better approach at searching with Helm
• Spell-checking and Helm
• Ripgrepping with Helm: the mode-line
• Burn, baby, burn
• Ripgrepping with Helm
• Words are never enough
• Helmify some completion mechanisms

2019

• Developing Helm actions
• An open connection
• Once Upon a Time
• The aesthetics of patching
• At the helm of my configuration
• Thirty straight days
• The essence of kinesis
• Straight ahead
• Grounding expressionism
• A pen and a notebook
• Open Magit from Ibuffer
• The people’s conference
• Format XML like a pro
• Motivate yourself
• Questioning the future
• Getting ready for Heart of Clojure
• Bury shell buffers
• What Is Democracy?
• Passing the prefix argument around
• Breaking the balance
• Better colours in Emacs shell
• Reducing a book and enlarging TV
• It never occurred to me
• Visualising music
• Digital minimalism
• A soldier of cinema
• Switching buffers (Take 2)
• The Thin Apocalypse
• Jump around
• Retelling is not for everyone
• Switching buffers
• Make your company behave
• Arrivederci Soavi, Ciao

2018

• Playing hide-and-seek with my REPLs
• My 2018 in films
• The present is the past is the future
• Moving to deps.edn and shadow-cljs
• Hu Bo and the country that sits still
• Handy sudoing in Fish
• Ferrara and the Straubs
• Rollerland
• Rachel Getting Married
• Time and Hat
• Moving to Figwheel Main
• Re-implementing boodle database layer
• Through the lands of static typing
• What’s the theme?
• A fancy Emacs version
• Dutch Clojure Days 2018 round-up
• Second Sight Films’ Breathless
• Elements of Clojure
• Beauty lies in the segments of the mode line
• Refactoring my windows restoring solution
• Restoring the window configuration in Emacs
• Exterminate Magit buffers
• Refactoring power-ups
• Getting ready for Dutch Clojure Days

2017

• A year of functional programming
• Learning Haskell
• boodle
• Inspecting log files with Emacs
• Magit, the one and only
• On a personal level
• Laughable violence
• Simplify my Docker workflow with Emacs
• To shell or not to shell
• Taming closing delimiters in my s-expressions
• A better workflow with workspaces
• Every feed in its right place
• Keeping your .emacs.d clean
• The special effects of Tsui Hark
• Daily Clojure workflow
• Clojure it is
• Dynamically change font size in Emacs
• Automatic language detection for Flyspell

2016

• My 2016 in films
• Format XML in Emacs
• Usefulnessless
• Scala in Emacs with ENSIME
• Reflecting on my Java 8 experience
• Schema validation for my Emacs configuration
• Adding CHICKEN Scheme support to Flycheck
• Spell-checking with Hunspell and flyspell-correct
• Recentre the buffer when leaving Swiper
• Ignore some buffers in Ivy
• Prince on film
• Better Living Through Criticism
• Film preservation and nostalgia
• Going back to Stanley Kubrick

2015

• The New Cinephilia