In my current config, I’m trying to reduce the number of external packages I rely on. Emacs has improved a lot over the years and also added several community packages into the core distribution. Recently, I decided to remove the obsidian.el package and see how far I can get with vanilla Emacs and packages I already have installed anyway. #Why no longer obsidian.el? I used obsidian.el for quite a while. Unfortunately, it hasn’t seen a commit since February 2025 and I started having some issues with it. Maybe they were related to my specific config, but it doesn’t even matter. I realized that the package has way more features than I care about 1 and started wondering if I could get a good enough (for me) Obsidian experience with whatever Emacs offers out of the box. I’ve been using this for a bit now and it’s absolutely sufficient for my needs.

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A better Emacs *help* buffer. Contribute to Wilfred/helpful development by creating an account on GitHub.

What frustrates me most about all the money going to Omarchy right now is that there are way more established organizations that deserve it so much more. Take DO as an example. I know they have done a good job providing infra to some FOSS projects, but have they handed anyone else $3m in actual money? Also: "beautiful, fun & agentic OS"? I think you misspelled "vibe-coded eye candy and dotfiles on top of Arch". https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/digitalocean-joins-as-founding-corporate-patron/

High-performance RISC-V interpreter with a lot of compelling features using nightly Rust

Quitting Windows (GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual)

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Over 15 years ago, I published this short post about how to write a very basic Ruby extension in C. A few weeks ago I got curious what the same extension would look like in Odin, a language I very much enjoy. I just realized that I never published the draft I started back then, so let’s fix that. #Wrapping ruby.h Odin makes it very easy to bind to C. You could do everything in one file, but I decided to split it up and put the wrapper in ext/person/ruby.odin.

I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas are well suited to each other.

Attached: 1 image Real hacker. 77-year-old Carl Gunn legally blocks a Flock license plate camera in St. Petersburg, Florida, by sitting on a public sidewalk and holding a 12-foot pool skimmer pole with a “DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS” sign. Because he remains on public property and never touches the equipment, police confirmed his protest is lawful. #flock

In recent months there has been a proliferation of AI-generated proofs of various old and new results, some of which have been formalized in the proof assistant language Lean. However, checking tha…