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.
Latest Posts
I am the endurance in your long hikes the fortitude in all your commitments the sheer resilience in your cold showers the exuberance in each of your long days the star dust permeating every fibre of your being the unflinching devotion to...
TMR provides facilities for setting timers using a convenient notation. Lots of commands are available to operate on timers, while there also exists a tabulated view to display all timers in a nice grid. Package name (GNU ELPA): tmr...
In this ~2.5-hour video, I talk to Christian Tietze about a wide range of topics, from his indie and freelancing programming, to topics of practical philosophy, and ultimately to note-taking with the Zettelkasten method. I have known...
This is a caricature of how I feel mechanical keyboard switches are being marketed these days. I do not mean to judge anybody and I am having a good time learning about all the options out there, while typing on my boring Cherry Black...
In previous entries I explained how I have reworked the modus-themes to optionally work as the basis for other theme packages. The official documentation is in the manual of the Modus themes (my manuals are the only source of truth; blog...
For this entry, I have picked a song from the corpus of work of Nikolas Asimos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB4DSjbtrwU. It is about the personal struggle of a misfit who bears witness to the perceived misdeeds in their milieu yet is...
[ This is a development note. Things might change before the release of modus-themes version 5.0.0 and ef-themes version 2.0.0. ] In previous entries, I outlined how my ef-themes will be built on top of my modus-themes and then how the...
I have been doing a lot of work these days on my themes. The immediate goal is two-fold: (i) make the modus-themes more flexible so they can be used as a the basis for other theme packages and (ii) make the ef-themes the first project to...
It is not ageing that bothers you but the lifestyle which leaves you regretful and bitter
Since version 4.0.0 of my modus-themes, users can override the palette of one or all the themes. They can change the applicable colours and how those are mapped to semantic elements. For example, “heading level 1” will apply to Org,...
This is an entry from my journal. It is early Autumn now. Average day temperatures in Cyprus still hover above 25 degrees Celsius. The mountains are always cooler, especially at night. Even during the peak Summer days, one needs extra...
The ef-themes are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs that provide colourful (“pretty”) yet legible options for users who want something with a bit more flair than the modus-themes (also designed by me). Package name (GNU...
As I wrote in a recent entry, the forthcoming version 4.1.0 of Denote will provide the option to define custom identifier schemes. Here I explain one of the examples I have included in the manual, specifically, the idea of recording the...
UPDATE 2025-09-25 13:51 +0300: The original used “words..in bottles” and I have now changed it to “letters…in bottles”. Continue to put letters in bottles and toss them to the waves until years later on second read you realise your...
In this video I talk to Ekaitz Zárraga, a free software engineer and contributor to the Guix project, among others. I start by asking a few basic questions about the background of Ekaitz and the way to becomig a Guix contributor. We then...