After struggling with the Mail app's small text on Mac I switched to Thunderbird, which, despite its quirks, kinda works. For now.

Albuquerque author Carol Sturka is one of only 13 people in the world immune to the effects of the "Joining", an event in which an extraterrestrial virus transformed the rest of humanity into a peaceful and content hive mind known as the "Others". The hive mind happily accommodates the wishes of those who remain unaffected, but admits that it will ultimately seek to assimilate them when it learns how to do so. Carol is adamantly against their efforts as she searches for a way to reverse the Joining.

Still getting used to the Glove80. Tangent has the layout but no Emacs practice layer with the actual key chords I need to relearn. So I asked Claude to help build one.

I've been doing even more Emacs writing lately, and my pinky is paying the price. After years of using Caps Lock as Control, I'm finally feeling the strain. Here's what happened, what I'm doing about it, and what new ergonomic keyboards I’m considering.

Fourth part of the Emacs config series. This time, file operations: using the system trash instead of permanent deletes, moving backup and auto-save files to a dedicated folder, setting idle-based auto-save, and using auto-revert to keep buffers in sync across machines via Syncthing.

> You’d think my Emacs exploration is enough for me to dig into, but my new monitor led me down a rabbit hole of display calibration — from BetterDisplay on the Mac to HiDPI, Retina, TrueTone, and brightness syncing. On the Linux side, X11 on Kubuntu 24.04 feels limited, so a fresh install with Wayland on Kubuntu 26.04 LTS is calling my name.

A few days after my semantic HTML reckoning, I followed through on the heading hierarchy on my blog. Turns out, I was wrong to say I was wrong. h1 for the site, h2 for posts, h3 for sub-headings.

After last week's em dash confession, I wanted those in Emacs org-mode, naturally. One keybind, I thought. It would be simple, I thought. One week later, after spending quality time with abbrev-mode, I finally got my damn em dashes. Here’s the over-complicated why and the over-simplified how.

I woke up at 05:40, bothered by the fact that filenames lack a dedicated HTML tag. One thing led to another, and now I’m questioning every heading level on my blog. And now I can finally have breakfast.

I continue my Emacs config series by first admitting I lied about Part 1 being an intro: this here is a second intro. I also seem to have some style obsessions. org-edit-special, registers, mark ring, and one or two rabbit holes, because of course 🐰

Three weeks into my Emacs config project, and I'm still going. This post covers the first four blocks of my .emacs file on macOS — the "boot" sequence before the real stuff. After writing this for almost 2 hours (not including editing), I ended up with more questions than answers. Sounds about right.