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 ongoing conflict in the Middle East has created an input shock whose delayed cascading effects we shall experience in the months and years to come. Shortages in oil and its derivatives bring about challenging states of affairs that extend to every area of economic activity. If businesses start failing, we may be...
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, among others. We will cover themes related to the newcomer experience. I am looking...
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 the vim way of editing text and was wondering if you’re using a more ergonomic...
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 preserved and written to the PDF. buffer-to-pdf is not meant to be a replacement...
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 use-cases. By Protesilaos on 2026-04-30. ;; These are not all of my favourite options....
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.
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 because I am preoccupied with time-sensitive tasks around my land on top of...
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 inevitability as one of the three fates. The point is to accept the world...
[ 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 of my other packages as well.
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