Protesilaos
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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On the 14th of May we will meet with Sacha and Philip to talk about the upcoming Emacs 31 and other developments heading into Emacs 32. Philip is a contributor to core Emacs and the main driver behind the new newcomers-presets theme,...
This is an excerpt from an exchange that I am reproducing with permission from my correspondent. I am not sharing their contact details. As I understand, you’re using the regular keybindings in emacs. I’m trying to transition away from...
In this short video I demonstrate my new package for Emacs. It is called buffer-to-pdf. The idea is to save your current buffer to a PDF, while preserving how it looks. This means that your font size, theme, and other visual effects are...
These are the basic settings for Emacs that I shared with Sacha Chua during our livestreamed meeting on 2026-04-30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7pcLdwuyxE. ;;; Sensible defaults that are not too intrusive and focus on common...
This is an excerpt from my journal in which I comment on how I handle my everyday affairs in my land while respecting the greater magnitudes. The hours are shorter when you have no idle moments. I have not had the chance to write much...
Where aromatic rose and blackthorn shrub spring from shared soil you find what you seek once you realise that the mountain-god heeds my prayer as the echo of my steel I wrote the poem in the context of this journal entry: Doing what I must.
In this ~30-minute video, I talk about the relationship between violence and safe spaces. How violence carves a space out of the wilderness and how it keeps it free from danger. I bring up several examples and also discuss the concept of...
[ The video will be recorded. ] This is a spontaneous live stream. The stream starts in ~20 minutes. I will continue maintaining my packages. My plan is to start with Denote and then move to TMR. Depending on how I do, I will check some...
Mark your calendar for next Thursday. I will do another live stream with Sacha Chua. We will talk about Emacs and I will check on her progress since our last meeting. I am looking forward to it! Note that the event will be recorded.
For this entry in the series I have picked a song from the collection of composer and songmaker Manos Loizos. Manos was among the most influential artists of his era. Do not ask me is an old song that remains relevant:...
I will stop using my legal name online. Henceforth I am identifying as “Protesilaos”. The legal name—Protesilaos Stavrou—will remain in place for practical purposes. My surname is “Stavrou” (Stávrou, Σταύρου). It is the genitive case of...
For this entry in the series, I have picked The world that changes by renowned songmaker Alkinoos Ioannidis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiCJ76fPbs. What I discern in the songs of Alkinoos is originality as well as variety in the...