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 doric-themes are the minimalist counterpart of my modus-themes and ef-themes. They define few colours and exercise restraint in how they customise faces. This means that there rarely is a context that has red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, and cyan. Those are reserved for cases where colour-coding is needed....
When we call dired from Lisp, we can pass it a list of files instead of a directory. This gives us a fully fledged Dired buffer for those files. My most common use-case is to produce flat listing, so that I do not have to go searching in exactly which directory some file is (e.g. in the Downloads folder there is...
I was under the impression that I had written an entry for In the night of the others (Μέσα στη νύχτα των άλλων) a long time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XvkZNbO-eg. It turns out that I did not. Though I have commented before on other pieces of the Trypes (Τρύπες) band: Train (2022-06-28) New dizziness...
The Tales of series are Japanese Role-Playing Games (spoilers throughout!). The story usually involves some band of unlikely heroes on a quest to save the world from calamity. The characters you control gain experience and become stronger through random encounters with enemies as well as fights that forward the...
I will join Sacha’s live stream this Thursday to talk about underappreciated features that are built into Emacs. There are a lot of nice things that are available out-of-the-box (plus many packages that build on top of them). I am looking forward to it! The video will be recorded for future reference.
For this entry in the series, I have picked a traditional song from Heperus (Ήπειρος), the northwestern part of mainland Greece. Traditional Heperotic music is renowned for its laments: slow-paced songs that revolve around themes of loss, suffering, and hardship, but also of honour and commitment to ancient values....
Limbo is a puzzle platformer with a dark aesthetic (spoilers below). It has a monochromatic colour palette while the entire screen is rendered through a grainy film filter. You assume the role of what appears to be a boy: its silhouette is grey while its eyes emit light. This is all you know about your character. It...
I was surprised to learn that Age of Empires II is actively developed to this day. I remember the original game, subtitled The Age of Kings, being published during the reign of Edward Longshanks. It was followed by a comprehensive expansion pack, called The Conquerors, shortly thereafter to critical acclaim. A...
In a column for The Guardian, Chris Cotonou comments on the omission of Greek characters from the otherwise multicultural cast of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Chris notes: An honourable intention [to have a multicultural cast]. But for us Greeks, it makes our absence even more glaring – especially in the year’s...
The following is taken from a private exchange. I am publishing it with permission from my correspondent without disclosing their name and contact details. I was curious, what is your general approach to learning something new? For example, say you become interested in lockpicking (locksport). What would your...
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