My girlfriend recently bought a Framework 12 laptop1 with a correspoding stylus and, influenced by my ravings about the power of GNU Emacs, wants to take handwritten digital notes on it for her engineering and mathematics classes and then organise them in org-mode. I see a younger version of myself clearly in her,...

Table of Contents Introduction Revolutionary Notes Implementation Introduction After initially starting to use Emacs back in high school merely for programming, I naturally began to use it for other tasks such as document preparation and note-taking. This introduced me to the surprisingly large overlap between Emacs...

I have a few different computers. Those machines have different capabilities, form factors, portability, hardware, and software — and yet I still want to do roughly the same work on them. While most of the work I do is with text — reading, writing, editing, programming — Sometimes I want to work on one specific...

I am not “on” social media. Both in the sense that I don’t have accounts on them, but even when I do I do not use them. As I have briefly mentioned earlier this has some minor consequences, but I will not discuss them here. Instead I want to describe how I have a healthy and positive (in the literal sense of the...

Table of Contents The Question of Over-regulation Digital Protectionism? Capital Union Infrastructure A European Stack Conclusion Europe is in a bind. While we posses advanced manufacturing and research, we have somehow been unable to adequately transform these advantages into a prominent tech industry1. With the...

Table of Contents Using business cards Designing the face of the card First draft Second draft Third draft Fourth draft Fifth draft Sixth draft Seventh draft Eighth draft Designing the back of the card Design one: Just keep it Design two: Adding some simple text Design three: Work in the crest Conclusion Using...

It is apparent to everyone that social media is distinctly a different experience today from how it initially developed. It has become a form of mindless consumption instead of a social space where one interacts with other genuine individuals. The concept of content, once merely used on Madison avenue, has become so...

Table of Contents A definition What characterises technique? Should/can you do anything about it? In recent time I have noticed a considerable number of academic, policy, and popular works that have all covered parts of the concept of technique, without naming it as such. At the same time I have encountered numerous...

I’ve recently read not just one, but two different blog posts arguing for roughly the same thing. To summarise them; You have a finite amount of time to learn new things, and so you should not only focus that time toward learning things that actually matter, but you should also only try and learn things that are...

Table of Contents What is the value of land? What is digital land? Taxing Digital Land Downsides What is the value of land? Adam Smith divides the economic forces into three areas for, the profit obtained from labour, that from capital (or stock), and that obtained from land. The value extracted from land is here...

Table of Contents Dynamically updating Github profile Creating the README Using Github workflows Conclusion Dynamically updating Github profile Github has a functionality where the README file in a repository with the same name as your username will be displayed on your profile. Since I am a fan of the indieweb’s...

Table of Contents Why Chinese? How to Study How I Studied Thoughts on the Language The Future This is part of a series of posts written during or shortly after my visits to the mainland of the People’s Republic of China in the summer of 2025. Why Chinese? There are a multitude of reasons why I wanted to study...