With the crashing and burning happening at Twitter, I have made the personal decision to leave the platform that I have loved and enjoyed for the past 14 years. I have enjoyed great conversations, connections, and even learned in that timespan. but seeing how things are spawning out of control, I have decided to...

If you’ve played video games before you know about render distance: where your character is in one part of the world, but in order to save on compute, the rest of the world is not rendered, it may be in shadow, in fog, or whatever the developers have chosen for the particular game. Likewise, in life your perception...

Rant against centralising e-mail in big-tech silos, and breaking the internet in the process Universities and research institutes used to be at the forefront when it comes to development of the fundamental technologies that power the internet. As early as 1965, researchers at MIT developed a kind of precursor to...

I have used text editors for more than 20 years; in all that time, I have never used a templating system to generate content because copy pasting and replacing always felt good enough. I recently decided to give it a try. In Emacs it is hard to talk about templating without mentionning YASnippet. Developped by the...