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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This Sunday I will do a live stream with Christian Arzu. The details are not finalised yet, so I will make the announcement separately. Christian is a NeoVim user who is Emacs-curious. He is trying out Emacs and needs someone to guide him at this early stage, which I am happy to do. Last year I had a ~2.5-hour...
There is no going back to fading coasts Stormy is your sea when yourself stands as stern judge and executioner My temperance you shall share inner calm for your tempests once my dear you learn to befriend the rainbows
Remember me While you drown in ancient waters lured by a shadow's promise of comfort remember me Whenever bitter frost shortens your breath and the hierophant's teachings ring hollow remember me Once nobody recalls your brave foray into the hinterlands depleted though you are remember me Remember me as the untamed...
In this video demonstration I show the tools I use to write in French using Emacs. One is the built-in framework for input methods, which allows us to compose characters to express the full range of the language we are typing in (e.g. French or Greek). The other is a spell-checking package called jinx, which is...
C’est difficile d’écrire dans une lange étrangère et de publier tes résultats. Tout les fautes sont recorder. Peut-être les gens qui lissent tes articles ne savaient pas tes autres publications, donc il peuvent former des opinions défavorable concernant la totalité de ton travail. Pour moi ceci n’est pas un...
The following is an entry from my journal. An entry from my journal. I comment at length on two articles, one about incels and the other about a scientist, to make a general point on the centrality of community. Earlier today I read two articles: Do violent incels dream of orgies in the sky? by Valerie Stivers for...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange with Pablo Parguiña: https://pabloparguina.net/. I asked for permission to share it, offering to anonymise Pablo’s quotes. Pablo told me that it is okay to actually mention the name+website, which I am happy to do. The discussion is about my publication: The mask...
Fontaine allows the user to define detailed font configurations and set them on demand. For example, one can have a regular-editing preset and another for presentation-mode (these are arbitrary, user-defined symbols): the former uses small fonts which are optimised for writing, while the latter applies typefaces...
I just added two new themes to my minimalist doric-themes package. doric-tiger is a light theme, while doric-lion is dark. Both use orange and yellow colours. Below are sample screenshots. doric-tiger doric-lion Part of development The new themes will be available in version 1.2.0. I think they already are well...
Je ne suis pas vraiment un artiste. Je n’ai jamais fait de peinture ou ai composé la musique, par exemple, ni je compris la danse artistiquement (oui, j’ai dansé plusieurs fois, mais seulement parce que les autres ont dansaient aussi). Mais j’ai quelques sensibilités artistique. Je discernes les connections dans le...
J’étais un adolescent quand j’ai appris les Français. Dans cette période là je ne pouvais pas préparer un texte long. En présent c’est facile pour moi de m’exprimer chaque jour, même avec les erreurs, parce que j’ai déjà développé la capacité de écrire. Cette capacité est indépendant de la compétence dans une langue...
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