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Using Minimal Emacs with Nix

02 Feb 2026

If you're both an Emacs user and a Nix user, then you should probably be using direnv with the use flake directive, and the emacs-direnv package for the best possible experience.

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Tags: emacs programming nix ux

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

Using Emacs as my Shell

12 Mar 2022

In this reddit post, u/awannaphasch2016 asks what tasks cause folks to leave emacs. For OP a love of the command-line is one good reason. Of course the command line is a wonderful place, and lots of emacsers replied with ways to integrate the command line with their emacs – often things like vterm and so on.

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Tags: emacs bash awk unix linux

Vi vs Vim vs Emacs

25 Aug 2021

There was some chatter at work recently about vim vs emacs. Here are some of my thoughts about which editor I prefer when, and why.

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Tags: unix linux vi vim emacs ed org-mode UX

Hello World

14 Aug 2021

As is surely traditional, the first post on this blog is both:

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Tags: emacs org-mode blogging
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