Table of Contents The diaeresis and em-dash Acronyms, contractions & brands Translation Formatting Conclusion One of the things I find surprisingly interesting is reading the style guides of different publishers or newspapers. Style guides generally cover how written content should be structured and presented. They...

A major Anglo-Saxon power begins a war far away from home with the help of Israel and without the support of its allies. The main objective is the control of one of the world’s most important maritime trade routes, but the aggressor may have to back down — partly from the rising oil prices at home. This could either...

How does advanced AI impact cybersecurity? This post was originally written for spaning, the student paper of the Swedish Defence University, in May 2026. It was written by Joar von Arndt and Tobias Wennberg, who is a cyber-soldier in the Swedish Armed Forces and an expert on logging. We are at war. There is...

Table of Contents In-buffer completion Jump to definition and references Syntax checking Conclusion Language-server-protocol (lsp) is standard to communicate information about a current programming project to an editor integration, powered by a “language server” for the specific programming language. Emacs has two...

Earlier this year I wrote Vibe-coding Brings the Power of Emacs to Everything in a more positive manner surrounding this topic. This is the negative version. I am not a radical in either direction surrounding this debate. But the internet does not reward subtlety or nuance, as I also pointed out in Three Thoughts on...

Figure 1: My view of Liberty Square (自由廣場), as well as the National Concert Hall (right) and National Theater (left) from atop the steps of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted home of the Republic of China (中華民國) as well as the Taiwanese people. I intent...

Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted home of the Republic of China (中華民國) as well as that of the people of Taiwan. I intent to stay here during the fall term, as I complete part of my studies abroad. Last year, while I was visiting the prc, I was tasked to photograph everything I ate...

Table of Contents Nuclear Strategy for Individuals Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes Diplomacy Studying at the Swedish Defence University gives you an odd way of thinking, where everything can be modelled through the lenses of nuclear strategy, international relations (ir), and the tactics employed in various contemporary...

I have found a peculiar delight in encryption, and particularly in using pgp-based asymmetric cryptography. This is especially useful for securing email communications, but doing so requires remembering to run M-x mml-secure-sign or mml-secure-encrypt in Mail Utilities For Emacs (Mu4e) before sending the message....

Fragments on Eccentricity The concept of fomo has always alluded me. Part of the reason is a persistent need for eccentricity, for growing against the grain. That is not to say that I am persistently rebellious, but that there is a natural aversion to doing things “the way everyone else does it”. The word...

Table of Contents Two Definitions The Consequences of Digital Artworks Industrialised Production Two Definitions Art has always been one of the most central aspects of human lives. It is not unique to the human experience, but it has become more important to humans than perhaps no other species on the planet. The...

Table of Contents What is post-historical society? Life under this régime Conclusion Post-scarcity is here. And with it has the life without meaningful political action. The consequences of this can not be understated, although they have somehow been with us for quite some time, paling in comparison to the...