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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L’autre jour j’ai cherché à YouTube pour des chansons françaises modernes. J’ai écris «modern french pop». Il y a beaucoup des résultats que j’aime. Avant d’écrire cette note j’ai écouté à «Faut que tu m’aime» par une artiste avec le pseudonym «Styleto». Pour un étrangère comme moi les chansons modernes que j’ai...
A few days ago I announced that I am working on denote-data. The goal is to provide an opt-in, in-memory cache for Denote. It can be used to speed up certain computationally expensive operations. It must be opt-in because there are many users, myself included, who do not need such functionality (I program because...
The following is an excerpt from my journal. I was discussing with someone how the interpersonal experience of depth feels to me. Namely, how the deeper you delve into any given topic, the fewer the people you will find around you who are willing or able to follow you. And if you do find someone, their energy levels...
This year I had the luck to participate in plenty of video calls with other people who wanted to publish the recording on their platform. I am always happy to be a team player and generally to chat about shared hobbies or life in general. Below I reproduce what I wrote in my “about me” page. Note that I will not be...
Tonight I will join the livestream that @linkarzu hosts together with Rumen and Ted. We will talk about Emacs. The discussion is open to the audience, so join us to write your questions and just hang out. I am looking forward to this! About ‘Root Access’ Root Access is a live conversation with Linkarzu, CEO members,...
La vitalité est l’énergie essentiel de vivre en créant. Tu fais du travail et tu as en plus la capacité de faire quelque chose que d’intérêt, comme d’art, au manière effectif ou excellent. Aujourd’hui je fais beaucoup des choses. L’heure locale est 23:20. Mais j’ai encore l’enthousiasme d’écrire une petite note dans...
These are comments I wrote to a friend in the summer of 2022. They were reading Lao Zi’s Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching is an alternative spelling) at the time in the hope of making sense of their own life’s woes. This friend is of East Asian background, while I am Greek by blood and, as you may have noticed the more...
Isee 724 on the denote.git issue tracker prompted me to start an experiment for an optional, in-memory cache for Denote. The cache can help speed up all sorts of operations. The goal is to explore what can be done and whether it makes sense to have that as a feature that users can enable, either directly in...
Because Denote files are standard files, we do not provide the equivalent of a find-file command to directly open a file in the denote-directory. Though users may still want to have that functionality, which is easy to implement with what core Denote already provides: (defun my-denote-find-file () "Open a file in...
[ The event will be recorded. ] I will join Sacha Chua and Pedro A. Aranda Gutierrez to talk about Emacs. Specifically, Pedro will elaborate on work related to the Org LaTeX exporter. Pedro is doing some interesting work on that front.
Aujourd’hui j’ai écouté à une chanson par Patricia Kaas qui dit «les hommes qui passent, maman, me donne jamais rien que d’argent» (plus sur la chanson ci-dessous). La superficialité caractérise les plusieurs affaires humaines. Même quand ils viennent et quand ils partent, les gens te donnent rien que d’argent. Ou...
I have written about the importance of tutelary figures in several articles. Although it is clear from the context what I have in mind, I have not elaborated in a standalone piece. A tutelary figure is a person who watches over you while teaching you something that is valuable for life. Parents typically perform...
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