Protesilaos
Protesilaos
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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[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] In a couple of hours I will resume the work I am doing on my Emacs denote package. There are general refinements I wish to make, but also to continue iterating on the new denote-data-mode, which is an optional in-memory cache for Denote. I will have the chat...
This is a collection of comments I have made in the context of private exchanges. I have already written about most of these in previous entries, though here I piece everything together into a more complete view of the case. This is an extensive analysis of political trends in Europe and the West at-large, with...
This is an excerpt from my journal in which I comment on creativity. How do you write when you have nothing to convey? What is the first word that comes to mind? Which phrases follow from there to form a paragraph? Is there a wider point you are making? Are you effective at communicating it? Writing is as much as...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] This evening I will do a live stream where I will continue developing the new denote-data feature for denote: it is an opt-in, in-memory cache with no dependencies that speeds up all sorts of operations. I have made lots of improvements to it and it is already...
Ceci est une note sans sujet. Quand il y a un sujet, l’attention de l’écrivain est concentré sur l’effort de dire avec un peu plus ou beaucoup des mots quel est le point de l’article. Ça c’est l’expansion d’une idée: voici le titre et voilà tout qui est relevant. L’écriture sans sujet est un processus d’exploration....
This is an entry from my journal. Earlier today I read Sacha Chua’s latest blog post with the title Continuing my experiment with (semi-)retirement. There I learnt about the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ), which is a test to self-assess one’s potential autism. As this is a topic that interests me, I took the test. My...
This is an entry from my journal. The other day I had a visitor from the region. My gate is always open. Anyone can walk to my window and check what I am doing inside. This is what a local community is about. Trust among people combined with transparency. The private space blends into the public space. I know them...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] This Saturday, 10 October 2026, at 16:00 Europe/Athens time, I will do an “ask me anything” live stream. I have been meaning to do this for a long time, but I never found the chance for it. Ask me a question about anything—literally ANYTHING—and I will give...
This is an entry from my journal. It is about pacing ourselves and maintaining a balance in our life. There are so many things I have learnt from football in no small part because I was paying close attention the entire time. Your physical and mental states must be in harmony, otherwise you are thrown off balance. A...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] This is a spontaneous live stream. I am working on a new feature for my ‘denote’ Emacs package. The idea is to implement an optional in-memory cache that can help speed up certain operations.
This is an entry from my journal. Living in the present moment demands situational awareness. You pay attention to your immediate surroundings and you notice changes in your environment. Those you discern exactly because you have a mental representation of the setting. Change is understood as the difference between...
C’est l’automne maintenant. Les gens restent chez eux pour plusieurs heurs. Il fait froid dehors pendant la nuit et il pleut plus souvent que l’été. Pour quelques personnes, ces sont les conditions pour devenir plus pensive et introspectif. Que est-ce que j’ai fais pendant les dernières mois? Comment va être l’année...
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