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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For this article, I have chosen another gem of a song from the voluminous collection of Vasilis Papakonstantinou, titled I need (Έχω ανάγκη): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ki-SCanwoA. This particular version is from the live...
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour,...
In this short video I report on some of the construction work I keep doing in and around the hut. Today, I spent about four hours to install a second-hand balcony door I acquired. I placed it on a side of the wall that was unfinished and...
In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:...
This package lets you preview a font inside of Emacs. It does so in three ways: Prompt for a font on the system and display it in a buffer. List all known fonts in a buffer, with a short preview for each. Provide a major mode to preview...
For this entry in the series, I have selected a beautiful song that I can best describe as “straightforwardly erotic”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWjha97vCf0. It is a modern rendition of Personally, that was originally performed by...
In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:...
This is an entry from my journal. The past ~2 months I have not written as many journal entries as usual. The time I would normally dedicate to journaling has been taken up by my two new puppies, Meelon and Oreeon. They are almost three...
In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:...
In this ~30-minute video I walk through my mountains to check how things are after the wildfires of July (which I posted about here: https://protesilaos.com/news/2025-07-25-dealt-cyprus-wildfires/). The landscape is all ash, which...
In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:...
I am developing two new themes for my minimalistic doric-themes package for Emacs. These combine gold with teal hues. doric-beach is the light theme and doric-valley is its dark counterpart. Here are the screenshots: Coming in version...
This is a major mode for editing sxhkdrc files. SXHKD is the Simple X Hot Key Daemon which is commonly used in minimalist desktop sessions on Xorg (I use it with bspwm, herbstluftwm, and i3wm). The sxhkdrc file configures key chords,...
In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here:...
To the unknown journeyman I promise to show courage in upholding my vows What is an adventure if not the commitment to keep going?