Protesilaos
Protesilaos
Protesilaos
I am a philosopher living in the mountains of Cyprus at a house I built myself which I affectionately call “the hut.” I spend my free time programming on GNU Emacs, writing essays on a wide range of life issues, and doing infrastructure work around my house. My background is diverse and reflects my intellectual curiosity as well as consistently high work ethic.
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The ef-themes are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs that provide colourful (“pretty”) yet legible options for users who want something with a bit more flair than the modus-themes (also designed by me). Package name (GNU...
The standard-themes are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs. The standard-light and standard-dark emulate the out-of-the-box looks of Emacs (which technically do NOT constitute a theme) while bringing to them thematic...
Where no fairy flies there are forerunners who build in silence their world of magic
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
Set ideologies aside The flocking crows shall guide you to look skyward where the travelling Sun paints its November skies I wrote this in the context of my journal entry Slowing down and appreciating the little things (2025-11-05).
This is an entry from my journal. I seldom travel. If I go further than a few kilometres, it will be to the next closest city for some essential task, such as to buy a new pair of glasses or take the dogs to the vet. Otherwise, I just...
This is an entry from my journal. I write about some immediate issues I am dealing with and then comment on wider themes about not taking things for granted. Local time is past 21:00. I am writing this on the laptop. It still has about...
In this +2-hour video, I talk to Logan about story-telling, finding conflict and escapism in fiction, and related life lessons. We start with a brief introduction to what Logan is doing right now. He is a university student in the field...
In this +2-hour video, I talk to Logan about story-telling, finding conflict and escapism in fiction, and related life lessons. We start with a brief introduction to what Logan is doing right now. He is a university student in the field...
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
In mid-September I launched my “selfies project”. Here is the dedicated section of my website: https://protesilaos.com/selfies. The idea of this project was to take a selfie each day and post it on my website. Why? Because I realised...
The distant is far away and unreachable The distant is close by and unattainable