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Charlie Holland

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Pythonista, Lisp Hacker, Emacs Enthusiast I love writing, especially about Emacs and Software Architecture! Check out my ramblings at my website! #emacs #python #lisp […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@chiply, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
New #emacs post! www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-hyrolo #emacs #foss #software #programming #knowledgeGraphs
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Hyperbole HyRolo: Records Are Trees, Not Lines
HyRolo, the full-text search layer of GNU Hyperbole, is a grep-like retrieval tool for records in your knowledge base instead of lines. Rather than retrieving s...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Quick reminder that the #emacs Carnival for August is nearly over! The entries so far are great! www.chiply.dev/post-august-emacs-ca… #foss #blog #software #programming
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The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026
This month I'd like to host the Emacs Carnival! I've been an enthusiastic participant for a while now. I wrote entries for May, June, and July (that last one ho...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
New #emacs post! "Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros" www.chiply.dev/post-elisp-macros-ar… #foss #lisp #software #programming
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Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
If you are an Emacs user with a keen eye, you will have noticed that in Emacs Lisp, code is data. After all, 'Lisp' is shorthand for 'List Processing'. One of E...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
New #emacs post! "Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse" www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-impli… #emacs #software #programming #knowledge #information #hyperbole
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Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
Your Emacs is full of markup-free hyperlinks embedded in your text, but you're missing a way to utilize them. Think about a file path in a README, a URL in an e...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
I'm hosting August's #emacs carnival! The topic is "The Search for Knowledge". Check out the post for the topic and how to submit. www.chiply.dev/post-august-emacs-ca… #emacs #software #foss #programming #knowledge #knowledgeGraphs
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The Search for Knowledge: Emacs Carnival August 2026
This month I'd like to host the Emacs Carnival! I've been an enthusiastic participant for a while now. I wrote entries for May, June, and July (that last one ho...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
New #emacs post! This is my submissions for July's Emacs Carnival. "A Tree and a Server Walk Into a Core…" www.chiply.dev/post-july-emacs-carn… #emacs #programming #software #lsp #code
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A Tree and a Server Walk Into a Core…
Two technologies have endowed every editor with IDE superpowers this past decade: tree-sitter, a generic incremental parser that gives your editor a live syntax...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
New #emacs post! "HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext" www.chiply.dev/post-hyperbole-hywiki #knowledge #knowledgeGraphs #software #programming #notes
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HyWiki: Zero Markup Hypertext
A key feature is missing from most Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMSs): define a concept by pressing a keybinding on a word, and from then on all occu...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026
New #emacs blog post! "svg-margin: Better Gutters for Emacs" www.chiply.dev/post-svg-margin #software #programming #foss #ui #graphics
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svg-margin: Better Gutters for Emacs
Emacs can draw line-level indicators in the built-in fringe and margin, the thin gutters beside the buffer text. The fringe gives you a single monochrome mark p...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026
New post! "Emacs Teaches Emacs: The Missing README" www.chiply.dev/post-ask-emacs This is a condensed version of my very long June Emacs Carnival post on the same topic. I wanted to make this as I felt it would be more intuitive for beginners, who are most likely to benefit from […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
New blog post! This is part of the June #emacs carnival. "Juneau Something? Emacs Teaches You How to Fish!" www.chiply.dev/post-june-emacs-carn… @ross @tusharhero #programming #foss #software #tutorial
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Juneau Something? Emacs Teaches You How to Fish!
The folks who 'grok' Emacs aren't wizards. They don't learn Emacs, per se, but instead they learn the handful of built-in commands for asking Emacs about Emacs....
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026
New post on SVG in #emacs ! I new SVG cooked when I published my svg-line package, but these results were pretty surprising! "Emacs SVG Benchmark Reveals Gaming-Caliber Frame Rates" www.chiply.dev/post-emacs-svg-bench… @oantolin @rougier #foss #software #programming #coding #graphics
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Emacs SVG Benchmark Reveals Gaming-Caliber Frame Rates
Rendering an Emacs status bar as an SVG image, like with my svg-line package (demo), really is several times heavier than the native text engine. The skeptics w...
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
New blog post! This one demonstrates an Emacs package I created called svg-line, inspired by @rougier 's dual-header gist. For all status bars it provides support for multi-line bars, icons, wrapping, buttons, and left/right/center alignment. www.chiply.dev/post-svg-line #emacs #foss […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
Has anyone else using #emacs wanted the status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-line, tab-bar) to be multi-line? Similarly, have any users ever wanted the margin to be multi-column? I'm working on a couple extensions that enable these that I'll publish next week. Just wanted to assay the […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026
I have a new post on what lies beyond the envelope of Incremental Completing Read in #emacs ! "Beyond ICR: Incremental 'Suggesting' Read in Emacs" www.chiply.dev/post-incremental-sug… #software #programming #foss #developertools
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Beyond ICR: Incremental 'Suggesting' Read in Emacs
This is the sixth post in my series on Emacs completion. The first argued that Incremental Completing Read (ICR) is a structural property of an interface, not a...
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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026
It often happens that I discover some minor annoyance in #Emacs while I'm working. I try to resist the temptation to drop everything and fix it right then and there, and instead make a note (either mental or in my #OrgMode files) to come back and fix it later. One problem I had noticed is that […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
New post on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest! "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket" www.chiply.dev/post-ij-sierpinski #literature #infinitejest #math #blog #writing
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Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket
In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest:
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
New blog post/video on my first Emacs package, space-tree! "space-tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs" This is a unique workspace management tool in Emacs as it allows for the hierarchical organization of workspaces. There is a video demo; and lots of prose on how space-tree works, and […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
I have a new blog post about the annotate-in-place note taking pattern in Emacs! This pattern brings the benefits of annotating physical documents with pen/paper to the digital note taking space, with a ton more features. It supports a variety of sources (files, web pages, elfeed, nov.el, etc […]
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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Just joined Mastodon a couple days ago and thrilled to be part of this vibrant community! I write about #software architecture and #emacs on my blog. Latest post: www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot The blog publishes long-form content intentionally […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
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