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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This Sunday I am meeting again with Christian Arzu from the @linkarzu YouTube channel. We will look into the basics of Org mode. How to use it to write documents and organise your life. Our previous meeting about getting started with...
In this video I demonstrate how to define key bindings that have a global overriding effect so that major modes cannot change them. This is important if you want to redefine keys that are not meant to be configured by the user. Below is...
For the present entry I have picked this wonderful rendition of a traditional song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_TywytZvdw. It is nominally about fishers at sea and thus pertinent to everyday life in many parts of Greece. The...
[ The video will be recorded. ] I will do a live stream together with Christian Arzu, a NeoVim user, who is now trying out Emacs. In this meeting we will go over the basics. The idea is that I will do some handholding at this early stage...
This Sunday I will do a live stream with Christian Arzu. The details are not finalised yet, so I will make the announcement separately. Christian is a NeoVim user who is Emacs-curious. He is trying out Emacs and needs someone to guide...
J’écris pour pratiquer la langue et je lis pour apprendre de nouveaux mots. Maintenant c’est plus facile d’écrire une note peut-être philosophique parce que il y a plusieurs termes qui ont les mêmes entre grec, français, et anglais. Je...
There is no going back to fading coasts Stormy is your sea when yourself stands as stern judge and executioner My temperance you shall share inner calm for your tempests once my dear you learn to befriend the rainbows
Remember me While you drown in ancient waters lured by a shadow's promise of comfort remember me Whenever bitter frost shortens your breath and the hierophant's teachings ring hollow remember me Once nobody recalls your brave foray into...
In this video demonstration I show the tools I use to write in French using Emacs. One is the built-in framework for input methods, which allows us to compose characters to express the full range of the language we are typing in (e.g....
C’est difficile d’écrire dans une lange étrangère et de publier tes résultats. Tout les fautes sont recorder. Peut-être les gens qui lissent tes articles ne savaient pas tes autres publications, donc il peuvent former des opinions...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange with Pablo Parguiña: https://pabloparguina.net/. I asked for permission to share it, offering to anonymise Pablo’s quotes. Pablo told me that it is okay to actually mention the...
The following is an entry from my journal. An entry from my journal. I comment at length on two articles, one about incels and the other about a scientist, to make a general point on the centrality of community. Earlier today I read two...
Fontaine allows the user to define detailed font configurations and set them on demand. For example, one can have a regular-editing preset and another for presentation-mode (these are arbitrary, user-defined symbols): the former uses...
I just added two new themes to my minimalist doric-themes package. doric-tiger is a light theme, while doric-lion is dark. Both use orange and yellow colours. Below are sample screenshots. doric-tiger doric-lion Part of development The...