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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From the age of myth you arrive as thunder and whispering fountain As the vivifying warmth of a luminous star Intensity you are of a special kind that moves hearts and reshapes the land In the dragon's year grey became blue green turned to amber Indeterminate Captivating Potent Manifest you now make the collective...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] Tonight I will work on my denote package. There is a feature branch I implemented this morning and am now ready to continue refining the code. The immediate goals: Update unit tests that are still calling deprecated functions. Write new tests, starting with...
The other day I had a coaching session with Sacha Chua. Sacha asked me if she could record and publish it, to which I agreed. More here: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/yayemacs-10-emacs-coaching-with-prot-packaging-emacs-lisp//. Our next meeting will be done live on the 16th of April 2026 at 10:30...
The denote-sequence package is an optional extension to denote that empowers users to write “sequence notes”, else “folgezettel”, in the style of Niklas Luhmann. Sequence notes are created in relation to other notes, as parent, child, or sibling. denote-sequence communicates such relationships by writing a...
This is an entry from my journal where I comment on how I learn by observing the phenomena around me. Another rainy day goes by. This is the first wet winter at the hut. The previous two were quite dry, foreshadowing the droughts that followed for the rest of the year. Last winter was especially harsh in this...
In this 2-hour video, I talk with Hjalmar about using Emacs to write music, the joy of artistic expression, and sociability in the Internet era. Hjalmar is a viola player and composer who currently studies composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. We start our discussion with me asking how it is to study music....
This is an excerpt from my journal. I express the connection with my surroundings and how I do not need all the answers. Minutes to eleven. Another rainy day comes to a close. I just came back from my nightly hike with the dogs. We walk around the mountains for several hours per day. This is basically paradise for...
Sacha Chua contacted me to schedule a coaching session later this week. She wrote about it here: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/03/thinking-about-coaching-goals-with-prot/. I maintain a strict privacy policy with everyone I meet. Specifically, I do not say anything about our meeting. But since Sacha has already...
This is an essay from my journal. It is a commentary on the prevailing norms in my culture and, probably, that of other cultures around the world. Strong cold winds this evening. Apparent temperatures are hovering slightly above zero degrees Celsius. The days remain cloudy. We have gotten plenty of rainfall, with...
In this 30-minute video I talk about the Greek god of war, Ares. I note how the very concept of “god of war” can make us feel uncomfortable because (i) we associate the divine with something noble and (ii) we consider war ignoble. I explain how we can appreciate the nuances by incorporating in our thinking the...
This is an excerpt from my journal. I explain how long-term projects help me stay focused. Local time is 23:00. I spent a combined total of five hours today doing manual labour by the stream. Half of that was in the morning and the remainder early in the afternoon, with a meal and then some computer work in between...
In this 2-hour video I talk with Arkadiusz about how he uses the computer as a blind person. We also cover a range of other issues, from cultural values to topics of artificial intelligence. Much of our conversation revolves around the use of Emacs, which empowers Arkadiusz to do much of his computing. Emacs has a...
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