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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Games I have covered thus far are slow-paced experiences: puzzles that you piece together to reveal their secrets. They tell you a story without expecting you to be decisive in your actions. Borderlands 3 (hereinafter referred to as...
Tomorrow, the 28th of May 2026 at 17:30 Europe/Athens time, I will join Sacha Chua’s live stream. We will talk about the Emacs blog carnival topic for this month, which is “May I recommend”. The video will be recorded for future...
I recently added a gaming section to my website. This is yet another vehicle for my philosophy: to express thoughts in a relatable way; thoughts that I could have formulated in abstract terms. I got Florence (spoilers below) because it...
Gorogoa is a puzzle game where the player must arrange tiles on a grid to progress the story (spoilers below!, plus philosophy). The game’s mechanics are simple: click to zoom in or out of interactive elements in a picture, and drag a...
I have a new section on my website dedicated to video games: https://protesilaos.com/games. My website has many such blogs, covering Emacs, politics, life issues, poetry, mechanical keyboards, and more. This new section contains my...
I like to go into a game with as little knowledge of it as possible. It was enough for me to learn the kind of game this is: What Remains of Edith Finch is an interactive story-telling experience. It has simple controls and relies on...
The other day I met with Amin Bandali to talk about life issues and practical philosophy. Amin asked me if he could record the meeting and write about it, which I agreed to. You can find the recording on Amin’s website, together with an...
Three pictures this time. Feels strange to pose like this, but it is nice to not be serious!
I have added two new themes to the current development target of my ef-themes package. Screenshots are available below. Remember that the themes are highly customisable: you can change practically everything about them. ef-arcadia is a...
Denote aims to be a simple-to-use, focused-in-scope, and effective note-taking and file-naming tool for Emacs. Denote is based on the idea that files should follow a predictable and descriptive file-naming scheme. The file name must...
I just read an article by Abhijit A.M. in The Anvil journal. Its title is The Decline of the Copyleft Free Software Movement and Its Ideological Limitations. It is subtitled A Marxist Critique of the Free Software Movement. It makes...
Yesterday I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs. Amin asked me if he could record the session, which I agreed to. The video is available on Amin’s website: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/ffs-emacs-ext-prot.html. We started...
I read a story I wrote and published last evening: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-05-12-mask-of-phantes/. It is about a magic mask. Whoever wears the mask gets all the attention. The themes I explore in that publication are about...
In a distant land lives a peaceful man called Phantes. His house is nice and cosy. It was built by a gifted fellow before Phantes was around. Nobody knows for sure who that person is. Whispers echo in the night. Birds sing of a peerless...