Protesilaos Stavrou

Protesilaos Stavrou

Philosophy

Technology

I am a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house I built myself which I affectionately call “the hut.” I spend my free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around my house. My background is diverse and reflects my intellectual curiosity as well as consistently high work ethic.

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• Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs 2026-03-12 05:00pm
• Selfie: beard and hair are growing 2026-03-12 05:00pm
• My Emacs talk for FLOSS @ Oxford 2026-03-11 05:00pm
• This Thursday I will talk about Emacs @ OxFLOSS (FLOSS @ Oxford) 2026-03-08 05:00pm
• New coaching prices to reflect the current market 2026-03-07 04:00pm
• Emacs: four new themes are coming to the ‘doric-themes’ 2026-03-06 04:00pm
• Taking it easy 2026-03-05 04:00pm
• I talk with Joshua Blais about Emacs and life issues 2026-03-04 04:00pm
• Poem: Not for an eternity 2026-03-03 04:00pm
• Finding enthusiasm in the face of boredom 2026-03-02 04:00pm
• Selfie: reviewing some manual labour I did earlier 2026-03-01 04:00pm
• Keeping calm in the face of war and uncertainty 2026-03-01 04:00pm
• Vlog: preparatory work for an infrastructure project at the hut 2026-02-28 04:00pm
• International relations and impunity 2026-02-27 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “I now begin to remember” by Pavlos Pavlides 2026-02-24 04:00pm
• Selfie: a portrait of me by Ro 2026-02-22 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art 2026-02-21 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art 2026-02-21 04:00pm
• Selfie: the loquat tree is doing well 2026-02-18 04:00pm
• Emacs: confirm package bugs with –init-directory 2026-02-17 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “My old troubles” by Kadinelia 2026-02-16 04:00pm
• Emacs: I will talk about Emacs and free software (FLOSS @ Oxford) 2026-02-15 04:00pm
• Philosophy: about a person’s behaviour and outlook 2026-02-14 04:00pm
• Selfie: sunshine at last 2026-02-14 04:00pm
• Emacs: add custom entity (Austrian school) to my ‘institution-calendar’ 2026-02-13 04:00pm
• Selfie: the rivers are back 2026-02-13 04:00pm
• Emacs: my GNOME accent color theme switcher package 2026-02-12 04:00pm
• Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0 2026-02-11 04:00pm
• Vlog: mountain climb in the rain with my four dogs 2026-02-11 04:00pm
• Emacs: institution-calendar package (University of Oxford/Cambridge, etc.) 2026-02-10 04:00pm
• The guerrilla fighters 2026-02-09 04:00pm
• Emacs: doric-themes version 1.0.0 2026-02-08 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency 2026-02-07 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Eric about free software, art, religion, and cosmic consistency 2026-02-07 04:00pm
• Re: Self haircut tips 2026-02-05 04:00pm
• Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-jade’ and ‘doric-copper’ 2026-02-04 04:00pm
• Selfie: WEBP means selfies are back on the menu 2026-02-04 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “God himself” by Blé (Giorgia Kefalá) 2026-02-03 04:00pm
• Emacs: beframe version 1.5.0 2026-02-03 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “You stopped evoking love” by Pyx Lax 2026-02-01 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “I am not another” by Christos Thivaios 2026-01-31 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “Full moon” by Haris Alexiou 2026-01-30 04:00pm
• Dreams 2026-01-29 04:00pm
• The desire for control 2026-01-28 04:00pm
• Touching grass 2026-01-27 04:00pm
• Emacs: ef-themes version 2.1.0 2026-01-26 04:00pm
• Journalling without the mental block 2026-01-25 04:00pm
• Emacs: tmr version 1.3.0 2026-01-24 04:00pm
• While the moon grows I keep going 2026-01-23 04:00pm
• Winter silence 2026-01-21 04:00pm
• Emacs: easily set timers with TMR 2026-01-18 04:00pm
• Emacs: notmuch-indicator version 1.3.0 2026-01-17 04:00pm
• Emacs: doric-themes version 0.6.0 2026-01-16 04:00pm
• Teaching dogs and learning from them 2026-01-15 04:00pm
• Next steps for the hut 2026-01-13 04:00pm
• To the brightest dog 2026-01-09 04:00pm
• The rainy days 2026-01-08 04:00pm
• Emacs: my ‘oxford-calendar’ package 2026-01-08 04:00pm
• Re: how are you fearless and how do you deal with anxiety? 2026-01-06 04:00pm
• New battery for the hut 2026-01-06 04:00pm
• Emacs: Substitute version 0.5.0 2026-01-04 04:00pm
• Emacs: ef-orange and ef-fig are part of the ef-themes 2026-01-03 04:00pm
• Re: about AI, authenticity, and identity crisis 2026-01-02 04:00pm
• About fireworks and the different kinds of people 2025-12-31 04:00pm
• Emacs: modus-themes version 5.2.0 2025-12-30 04:00pm
• Poem: Remember me 2025-12-30 04:00pm
• Emacs Lisp Elements: EPUB and PDF versions now available 2025-12-26 04:00pm
• Re: what are your thoughts on discipline and virtue and what are your habits? 2025-12-24 04:00pm
• Emacs: refinements to the Denote file prompt 2025-12-15 04:00pm
• Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.8.0 2025-12-12 04:00pm
• ‘Emacs Lisp Elements’ book version 2 2025-12-09 04:00pm
• Vlog: hike and philosophy with my four dogs 2025-12-04 04:00pm
• Poem: When you are in the wilds 2025-12-04 04:00pm
• Interpretation of “Andromeda” by Thanasis Papakonstantinou 2025-12-02 04:00pm
• Emacs: pulsar version 1.3.0 2025-11-29 04:00pm
• Poem: Juniper leaves 2025-11-29 04:00pm
• Emacs: Substitute version 0.4.0 2025-11-28 04:00pm
• Emacs: new Modus themes tool to generate a complete palette 2025-11-24 04:00pm
• Poem: The medallion 2025-11-22 04:00pm
• Emacs: doric-themes version 0.5.0 2025-11-22 04:00pm
• Emacs: new ‘denote-merge’ package 2025-11-21 04:00pm
• Tenting my split mechanical keyboard with magnets 2025-11-16 04:00pm
• Emacs: new Doric themes ‘doric-siren’ and ‘doric-mermaid’ 2025-11-16 04:00pm
• Poem: Desert wind 2025-11-15 04:00pm
• Argie the white wolf who could not become a sheep 2025-11-14 04:00pm
• Poem: Mermaid 2025-11-12 04:00pm
• Writing to refine my ideas and discover new ones 2025-11-12 04:00pm
• Poem: Memories of the Wind Fish 2025-11-10 04:00pm
• Emacs: complete examples for Modus themes derivatives 2025-11-09 04:00pm
• Emacs: ef-themes version 2.0.0 2025-11-08 04:00pm
• Emacs: ‘standard-themes’ version 3.0.0 2025-11-08 04:00pm
• Poem: Locked gates 2025-11-08 04:00pm
• Poem: Where no fairy flies 2025-11-07 04:00pm
• Emacs: modus-themes version 5.1.0 2025-11-06 04:00pm
• Slowing down and appreciating the little things 2025-11-04 04:00pm
• Poem: The November skies 2025-11-04 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons 2025-11-02 04:00pm
• Prot Asks: Logan about fiction, conflict, escapism, and life lessons 2025-11-02 04:00pm
• Rolling boulders 2025-11-02 04:00pm
• Emacs: modus-themes version 5.0.0 2025-10-31 05:00pm
• End of the selfies project 2025-10-30 05:00pm
• Selfie: out for an evening walk 2025-10-30 05:00pm
• Poem: The distant 2025-10-30 05:00pm
• Selfie: until I build my Cyclopean masonry 2025-10-29 05:00pm
• Selfie: after unearthing and rolling the boulder 2025-10-28 05:00pm
• Selfie: prettifying the stairs with odds and ends 2025-10-27 05:00pm
• Selfie: while finalising the stairs 2025-10-26 05:00pm
• Poem: Small beginnings 2025-10-25 05:00pm
• Selfie: absorbing the sun 2025-10-25 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity 2025-10-25 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Maxim about writing, thinking, criticism, narratives, and productivity 2025-10-25 05:00pm
• Selfie: with two of my dogs in the background 2025-10-24 05:00pm
• Poem: Were I a horse 2025-10-23 05:00pm
• Selfie: just a casual evening 2025-10-23 05:00pm
• Selfie: walk on a sunny afternoon 2025-10-22 05:00pm
• Poem: To be noticed 2025-10-22 05:00pm
• Selfie: did the first haircut trim, now to refine it 2025-10-21 05:00pm
• Selfie: after some more infrastructure work 2025-10-20 05:00pm
• Selfie: disentangling grapevines from fig trees 2025-10-19 05:00pm
• The two sides of commitment 2025-10-18 05:00pm
• Selfie: handling grapevines 2025-10-18 05:00pm
• Selfie: work, then cold water 2025-10-17 05:00pm
• Where to start with mechanical keyboards 2025-10-17 05:00pm
• Selfie: along a dirt road 2025-10-16 05:00pm
• Emacs: Denote version 4.1.0 2025-10-16 05:00pm
• Selfie: holding the sledgehammer 2025-10-15 05:00pm
• The werewolf moment 2025-10-15 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ovi about Clojure development and business, Emacs, and AI 2025-10-14 05:00pm
• Selfie: just another day in my mountains 2025-10-14 05:00pm
• Selfie: resting after a few hours on the computer 2025-10-13 05:00pm
• Selfie: on a quiet afternoon 2025-10-12 05:00pm
• Poem: To whom I could not meet 2025-10-12 05:00pm
• Selfie: during a long walk on a cloudy day 2025-10-11 05:00pm
• Poem: Rose 2025-10-10 05:00pm
• Selfie: after another day of manual labour 2025-10-10 05:00pm
• Selfie: sunny with a few clouds 2025-10-09 05:00pm
• Selfie: a sketch of me by Ekaitz Zarraga 2025-10-08 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ag about Emacs, Lisps, LLMs, and story-telling 2025-10-08 05:00pm
• Interpretation of “Enchantress” by Protesilaos 2025-10-08 05:00pm
• Poem: Enchantress (version 2) 2025-10-08 05:00pm
• Poem: Vitality 2025-10-06 05:00pm
• Emacs: tmr version 1.2.0 2025-10-05 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten 2025-10-04 05:00pm
• My impression of the marketing around mechanical keyboard switches 2025-10-03 05:00pm
• Emacs: the ‘standard-themes’ are also built on top of the ‘modus-themes’ 2025-10-02 05:00pm
• Interpretation of “At this world’s bankruptcy” by Nikolas Asimos 2025-10-01 05:00pm
• Emacs: ‘modus-themes’ as a basis for other themes; ‘ef-themes’ is first 2025-09-30 05:00pm
• Emacs: building on top of the Modus themes 2025-09-29 05:00pm
• Poem: Regretful and bitter 2025-09-27 05:00pm
• Emacs: the next ‘ef-themes’ will build on top of the ‘modus-themes’ 2025-09-26 05:00pm
• When there is no way, you have to dig 2025-09-25 05:00pm
• Emacs: ef-themes version 1.11.0 2025-09-24 05:00pm
• Emacs: example of a custom Denote identifier to include day of week data 2025-09-23 05:00pm
• Poem: Letters in bottles 2025-09-23 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ekaitz about Guix, bootstrapability, FOSS advocacy, and the Basque country 2025-09-23 05:00pm
• Poem: At the point we meet 2025-09-22 05:00pm
• Re: How do you walk four dogs? 2025-09-22 05:00pm
• Philosophy: first you walk, then you think for yourself 2025-09-20 05:00pm
• Conditioning the inner critic 2025-09-19 05:00pm
• Poem: Happenstance 2025-09-19 05:00pm
• Emacs: the next version of Denote will support custom identifiers 2025-09-19 05:00pm
• Re: is ancient Sparta an influence on you? 2025-09-18 05:00pm
• Poem: My hesitation 2025-09-18 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Julien about Emacs, functional package managers, Nix, Guix, and reproducibility 2025-09-17 05:00pm
• Re: how do you do food? 2025-09-16 05:00pm
• Vlog: Oreeon got bitten by a snake and is okay now 2025-09-14 05:00pm
• Thus begins the selfie project 2025-09-14 05:00pm
• Poem: Find me 2025-09-13 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: port19 about RSI, keyboard ergonomics, dictation tools, and geriatric nursing 2025-09-10 05:00pm
• Poem: The unexpected 2025-09-09 05:00pm
• The blood moon and my place in the world 2025-09-07 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Greg about Emacs, Android, dogs, fishing, cycling, and Pennsylvania 2025-09-06 05:00pm
• Emacs: show-font version 1.0.0 2025-09-06 05:00pm
• Όταν η πατρίδα σου είναι θεματικό πάρκο 2025-09-04 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Amin about EmacsConf, Debian, GNU, Internet Archive, and Canada 2025-09-02 05:00pm
• When your country is a theme park 2025-09-01 05:00pm
• Poem: Cowardice 2025-08-31 05:00pm
• Emacs: doric-themes version 0.4.0 2025-08-31 05:00pm
• Interpretation of “I need” by Vasilis Papakonstantinou 2025-08-31 05:00pm
• Vlog: another balcony door at the hut 2025-08-30 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Alex about LSP, Elisp programming, Guix, cycling, Go game, philosophy, and SwayWM 2025-08-29 05:00pm
• Emacs: show-font version 0.4.0 2025-08-25 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Ronnie about free software, privacy, parenting, and life in Iraqi Kurdistan 2025-08-24 05:00pm
• Interpretation of “Personally” by Penny Baltatzi 2025-08-24 05:00pm
• Freedom within robust constraints 2025-08-22 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Dimos about Emacs interconnectedness, collective work, and The Conspiracy Club 2025-08-19 05:00pm
• Vlog: walk through the burnt Cyprus mountains 2025-08-17 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Erik about Emacs since the 1990s, Oregon and Portland, and podcasting 2025-08-16 05:00pm
• Emacs: in-development ‘doric-beach’ and ‘doric-valley’ themes 2025-08-16 05:00pm
• Emacs: sxhkdrc-mode version 1.2.0 2025-08-13 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: Arni about Emacs, no distractions, socialising, and self-expression through art 2025-08-12 05:00pm
• Poem: To the unknown journeyman 2025-08-10 05:00pm
• Emacs: doric-themes version 0.3.0 2025-08-10 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: PizzaTorque about Emacs for programming, linguistics, art and community 2025-08-09 05:00pm
• Prot Asks: James about biology teaching, Emacs, and free software politics 2025-08-05 05:00pm
• I got the Emacs Writing Studio (EWS) book 2025-08-05 05:00pm