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 is a portrait of me by Ro, which was done live during our “Prot Asks” meeting: Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution...
UPDATE 2026-02-23 08:34 +0200: The portrait is available here: https://protesilaos.com/selfies/2026-02-23-prot-portrait-by-ro/. In this ~3-hour video I talk with Ro about a wide variety of topics that cover programming, politics,...
In this ~3-hour video I talk with Ro about a wide variety of topics that cover programming, politics, lifestyle, and art. We start by learning about Ro’s work as a software engineer for military projects. Ro studied electrical...
Much of the maintenance work I do for my packages involves correspondence with users about potential bugs. Sometimes, a user will encounter a problem that I cannot reproduce on my end. I thus try to recreate the bug in a pristine...
For this entry in the “interpretations” series, I have picked the remix of a traditional song by Kadinelia. Kadinelia is a musical duo that draws inspiration from many genres, blending them with ancient motifs to deliver art that is...
People from the University of Oxford are organising events related to free software: FLOSS @ Oxford. On Thursday, the 12th of March 2026, at 6 PM United Kingdom time (GMT) I will give a talk titled Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs. My...
In this ~50-minute video, I reference some of the sayings of Confucius to comment on the overarching theme of a person’s behaviour and outlook. The comments I make are ultimately what I think about certain issues: I am not an expert on...
My institution-calendar package for Emacs displays term+week indicators in the *Calendar* buffer (which, by default, is produced by the calendar command). This is useful, for example, for schools who organise their work by terms, such as...
In this short video I demonstate a new package for GNU Emacs that synchronises the Emacs theme with the GNOME settings for accent color and light/dark mode. Git repository here: https://github.com/protesilaos/gnome-accent-theme-switcher.
Lin is a stylistic enhancement for Emacs’ built-in hl-line-mode. It remaps the hl-line face (or equivalent) buffer-locally to a style that is optimal for major modes where line selection is the primary mode of interaction. The idea is...
In this 40-minute video I am in one of my usual long walks together with my four dogs. The weather has been rainy, but the needs to go out anyway and I enjoy it as well. While walking I cover various topics, such as how to handle dogs...
This is about a new package of mine: institution-calendar. It is not going to be available on GNU ELPA. Users will have to install it from source (code for this is further below). The reason is that the predecossor to this package,...