Quickly transpose sentences and paragraphs using key bindings in Emacs Emacs has several fantastic functions that offer you superpowers when it comes to text editing. Not all of these functions come with default key bindings. To make editing prose more efficient, I added a few key bindings for transposing sentences...

Moving the feed from index.rss to index.xml After reading Google is killing the open web I started to style my RSS feed using XSLT. Unfortunately, web browsers won't open a file with the extension "rss", but just offer to download it. Therefor I have to rename my RSS feed. Old name: index.rss New name: index.xml The...

Manage remote vm-bhyve guests with OS X Mavericks VNC client FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual machines. vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to create new vm's, and make ZFS snapshots of those. Virtual machines can either run with or without a...

Joined the netizen club webring The netizen club maintains a webring focused on websites that are able to be viewed in older computers. More about the webring. The web has become non-inclusive Sadly, the web has become mostly inaccessible for old computers. Websites are often only accessible using encryption. Old...

Elisping like it is 1998 GNU Emacs has been around for over forty years, and it has evolved tremendously during that period. Additional functionality was added, and new packages were created. Elisp also expanded with additional features. I maintain a phlog, this is like a blog, but on Gopher. See this explanation on...

My-Mind: a wonderful self-hosted mindmap web application My-Mind is a simple but effective web application for creating and managing Mind maps. My-Mind is free and open source, distributed under the MIT license. Small feature set and very intuitive My-Mind is a simple mind map application, with not many bells and...

OpenBSD 7.7 on Acer Aspire ES 15 The Acer Aspire ES 15 is a laptop from about 2020. Some specs: CPU: Intel Celeron N3050 Display: Glossy 15.6 inch, with a resolution of 1366x768 RAM: 4GB This laptop has a 'normal' keyboard and a numerical keyboard side by side. The 'normal' keyboard and the touch pad are off-center....

Switched to the EXWM window manager After about two decades using the ratpoison window manager, the original tiling window manager, I switched to the EXWM window manager on my laptops, running FreeBSD. EXWM EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs. It is a tiling window...

Set up an alternative Emacs configuration Using Emacs traditionally results in the long-lasting cultivation of a personal configuration. To try out some alternative configuration, I usually create a playing field by setting up an extra, dedicated user-account on my system, using "su - " to enter the playground....

This website is available without encryption, and yours should be too Over the last decade, the internet has seen a major roll out of encryption of the data transmission. Every website got a certificate and URLs suddenly started with "https". Encryption of the transmission protects against eavesdropping and provides...

Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition I was tagged by Andreas for a new blog challenge, this time the so-called "Technology Edition". When Did You First Get Interested In Technology? I built my first electronics project when I was twelve years old. This was a crystal radio. It required very few components,...