Embark is a package for Emacs that turns whatever is at point (a file, URL, region, symbol) into a target with a context menu of actions, invoked with embark-act (I bind it to C-.). Think of it like right-click with the mouse over an item. It's very handy when you …

Omarchy, the omakase Linux distribution created by David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails fame, is currently a hot topic among the open source crowd. Some people love it, some people hate it.

I will be clear: I'm on the love wagon for Omarchy. There is a lot to like …

Git trailers are just lines of text at the bottom of a commit that take note of some metadata. Common ones are Co-Authored-By, Reported-By, Reviewed-By or Signed-Off-By, all of them autodescriptive I think.

Magit has a way of adding trailers, just press C-c TAB or C-c C-i in commit view …

Emacs has no sandbox. Every package you install runs arbitrary Lisp with your full privileges: your files, your credentials, your network. This makes me really scared of installing new packages, or upgrading existing ones.

The packages most of us use are not vetted artifacts: MELPA builds from some repository (usually …

The Problem

I’ve been using Venice.ai (referral link if you want to sign up) for quite some time now for all my artificial intelligence needs. I love it because, unlike most AI platforms, it’s private:

• When you use Venice’s own models (open-source models running on their …

I've been running a home server with a bunch of self-hosted services (Immich, Jellyfin, Nextcloud...) behind a single Caddy instance using caddy-docker-proxy (documented in this post). Some of them have genuine public uses, e.g. sharing a folder in Nextcloud or an album in Immich, or connecting to Jellyfin through …

The Problem

I realized that this blog uses a lot of code blocks, but it’s not easy to copy them because there’s no Copy button on each block.

I looked for a plugin for Pelican that would do this, convinced that there must be one already out there …

I'm going to start a new series of articles on how I'm using AI to develop software or solve technical problems.

The articles will follow this structure:

1. Problem
2. Execution
3. Results
4. Lessons and findings

In this article, I don't want to delve into ethical, environmental, or political-economic considerations regarding AI, but …

I've been using Syncthing for years to keep files in sync between my laptop, desktop, phone, tablet and home server. It is an amazing piece of software and has been very reliable, with only the occasional conflict, but I have never lost any data. On the contrary, Syncthing file versioning …