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Emacs shell-mode

Oct 25, 2025

A while back I replaced alacritty with shell-mode for (almost) everything.

Emacs has a way of slowly expropriating most of your (other) operating system. Note taking, emails, file management, IRC, vim keybindings, you name it. You start to live inside Emacs. Everything is just text. Once you get used to it, life outside is not so nice anymore. Which makes it weird that after all these years I never got used to a terminal (the most text based thing ever) based workflow in Emacs. I just kept on using alacritty.

S-SPC broken on emacs-wayland (pgtk)

Oct 1, 2025

tech
emacs

Spent way too long debugging why S-SPC suddenly stopped working - I figured it was my config or some updated package. It was not - I had also switched from emacs to emacs-wayland on my system (I use Arch btw), turns out pgtk does not support S-SPC as it is used by input methods. I don’t use it (as far as I am aware) - so disabling it made it work again:

Choose Your Application: embark-open-with for Emacs

Aug 7, 2025

tech
emacs

I sometimes want to open a file in Emacs with something other than the system default - maybe okular instead of zathura for a PDF¹, or a different image viewer for screenshots. This is a perfect case for embark².

embark is this nifty package for emacs that is a bit like a contextual right click system. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it. It took me a while to really integrate it into my workflow - honestly because of the overwhelming number of actions you are presented with. So since embark has around a billion actions included, I was a bit surprised to find I could only open files in the default application (embark-open-externally).

An old theme throwback

Nov 22, 2020

I have lost most of my stuff from when I was blogging ages ago, but I have at least one image of an old version I had:

I remember I never did finish the navigation part, but I was quite happy with the rest of the design. I made it all myself, mostly in Photoshop and then dividing that into HTML elements. I remember thinking it was cool that I could pipe fortune to my page. Those were the days of 2advanced, gabo corp, etc.. This was all HTML/CSS though.

org-mode + hugo = ❤

Dec 17, 2018

Hello world!

I’ve been using org-mode for years and I write personal journals in it from time to time. I also dabble way too much in optimizing how I use it to actually be productive in it, but I digress..

I’ve read about blogging from org-mode and publishing that directly to static sites. I was intrigued, and I somewhat miss blogging, which I haven’t done in probably 10-15 years by now. So here goes, this will be me just trying out syntax and styles.