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Browser Independence

25 Jan 2026

A lot of folks seem to be worried about the future of Firefox these days. 1

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Tags: emacs org-mode web slackware UX

Picking an emacs colour theme

17 Jan 2026

Here're a couple of handy functions to quickly try out all the dark-mode / light-mode themes you've already got installed, and pick the one that feels right for now.

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Tags: sysadmin emacs UX

What I did to make unicode work...

18 Dec 2025

I got an email that was sent from a french email client. When the sender quoted some text, it looked like this:

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Tags: sysadmin unix linux unicode emacs bsd

Jenga Civilisation

22 Dec 2023

You will need:

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Tags: philosophy silly

From Agility to Stability

12 Oct 2023

I think we could plot basically all software projects1 on this graph:

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Tags: programming tdd tech testing management agile stability
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