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.
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Representatives from the United States and Iran are already meeting in Switzerland to agree on a permanent end to the war. Many important details remain unknown, though the way things are set is already giving us an indication of what to...
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
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...
This is an excerpt from a private exchange. I am sharing it with the permission of my correspondent, without disclosing their identity. I was wondering how do you have the courage to become who you are today, you know, making speech and...
For this entry in the series I have picked a song of composer Manos Chatzidakis, as it is performed by the acclaimed Nana Mouskouri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lp6f_T1z_o. This is a wonderful performance. Even the breeze adds to...
This is an entry from my journal. I comment on how I accept the world as-is. Over the past few weeks Atlas’ cancer has resurfaced. This time I will probably not be able to do anything about it, though I will still check with the medical...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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