I've never really dedicated myself to Emacs despite being interested in org mode for a little while now. (more…)

I regularly make throwaway “projects” and do a surprising amount of programming in /tmp. For Emacs Lisp, the equivalent is the *scratch* buffer. These are places where I can make a mess, and the mess usually gets cleaned up before it becomes a problem. A ... (more…)

The project that I've been working on over the weekend, I worked on in emacs. This is part of my re-learning the basics of text editing and programming in emacs to slowly move away from TextMate when it ... (more…)

I talk about the five lessons I learnt in my life as a computer user and through my experiences with free software and GNU Emacs. /// The link to this presen... (more…)

Suppose you don’t like the names car and cdr, the traditional identifiers for two halves of a lisp cons cell. This is misguided. A cons is really just a 2-tuple, and the halves don’t have any particular meaning on their own, even as “head” and “tail.” How... (more…)