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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Three pictures this time. Feels strange to pose like this, but it is nice to not be serious!
I have added two new themes to the current development target of my ef-themes package. Screenshots are available below. Remember that the themes are highly customisable: you can change practically everything about them. ef-arcadia is a light theme with a verdant, humid aesthetic. ef-atlantis is a dark theme with an...
Denote aims to be a simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking and file-naming tool for Emacs. Denote is based on the idea that files should follow a predictable and descriptive file-naming scheme. The file name must offer a clear indication of what the contents are about, without reference to any...
I just read an article by Abhijit A.M. in The Anvil journal. Its title is The Decline of the Copyleft Free Software Movement and Its Ideological Limitations. It is subtitled A Marxist Critique of the Free Software Movement. It makes several interesting points about the state of free software and the role of the open...
Yesterday I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs. Amin asked me if he could record the session, which I agreed to. The video is available on Amin’s website: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/ffs-emacs-ext-prot.html. We started with a review of the latest changes to the ffs package that Amin has been...
I read a story I wrote and published last evening: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-05-12-mask-of-phantes/. It is about a magic mask. Whoever wears the mask gets all the attention. The themes I explore in that publication are about desire, personhood, and learning.
In a distant land lives a peaceful man called Phantes. His house is nice and cosy. It was built by a gifted fellow before Phantes was around. Nobody knows for sure who that person is. Whispers echo in the night. Birds sing of a peerless hunter. Mist permanently covers a part of the forest. Not even the wind blows in...
Writing for UnHerd, in an article titled Boots-on-the-ground is Trump’s best option, Wolfgang Munchau elaborates on a logical argument in favour of committing to the war in Iran: […] Unlike Russia, Iran is not a nuclear power, and on conventional forces alone the US surely has the military capability to...
In this 30-minute video I expound on the close connection between deep thought and misery. I do so by explaining the symbolism of Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, the world of disembodied souls. Hades is also known as “Plouton”, from the Greek word for “wealth”, which points to a connection between the...
I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs, specifically Amin’s upcoming ffs package. Amin informed me about changes to ffs in light of a discussion we had during a previous session. Amin asked me to record the meeting and then publish it, which I happily agreed to. You can watch it on Amin’s website:...
Today I watched with great interest the discussion of Yanis Varoufakis with the hosts of The Rest Is Politics podcast, Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/05/03/on-the-rest-is-politics-with-alastair-campbell-and-rory-stewart-from-the-2008-crash-to-the-rise-of-populism/. Yanis was...
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