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Matto
This site is about my quest into open source software and unix-like operating systems. I like reading and writing, using open source software, coding in Lisp, using Gopher, riding a bicycle, and using IRC and Jabber (XMPP). I prefer plain text and use Emacs, vi, and ed.
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Books and some pages I read in April 2026 Non-fiction Vintage Didion by Joan Didion (2004) 200 pages 3 stars A collection of previously published essays focussed on US politics. The essays date from different periods. There are also...
Explore the smol web with Bubbles All Aggregators Are Equal but Some Aggregators Are More Equal Than Others Bubbles is a new, brilliant, blog aggregator. Bubbles combines the power of RSS feeds with the power of voting. Of course there...
Install minimal Recoll on FreeBSD 15 Recoll is a full text search application. Recoll is based on the very capable Xapian search engine library. The FreeBSD package comes with a ton of dependencies, which is great for use on your...
Books of March 2026 Below are the two books I finished reading this month. Fiction The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) 423 pages 5 stars This is a re-read, I have read the book several times, first time in the early...
My Emacs misconceptions Emacs Carnival Mistakes and Misconceptions Philip Kaludercic has started the Emacs carnival on the subject Mistakes and Misconceptions. Here's my contribution. Vim to Emacs In 2021 I switched to Emacs after using...
Deploy a Matrix server using Conduit and Cinny on FreeBSD in the homelab Here is a small post about deploying a Matrix server in the homelab. The goal is a Matrix server running on a FreeBSD jail that can be used from the web browser on...
Books of February 2026 Below are the two books that I finished this month. I started a third one, but didn't like and decided not to finish it. Non-fiction The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner (1994)...
Translate Texinfo files using po4a Texinfo Texinfo is a brilliant hypertext system that predates HTML. You access it with info, which is a text mode application. The content consists of a number of nodes. Each node is an information...
Books of January 2026 I started this year with re-reading "Pattern Recognition". This is the first book that I re-read within a year. Because I really enjoyed this book, I followed it with the other two books of the Blue Ant trilogy. Non...
Books of Januari 2026 I started this year with re-reading "Pattern Recognition". This is the first book that I re-read within a year. Because I really enjoyed this book, I followed it with the other two books of the Blue Ant trilogy. Non...
A collection of internet evergreens I started a new web page, to publish a collection of awesome and inspiring web pages that are worth reading. Currently the collection is modest, I hope to build over time. Find this collection of...
denote-review Implement a simple review process for denote notes with denote-review How an Emacs package came into existence Systems in use Over time I have grown into using several different note systems next to each other, like taking...
Best of the Gutenberg books I read in 2025 Project Gutenberg is a fantastic treasure trove filled to the brim with over 75,000 books. In 2025 I read several books and short stories that are now in the public domain. Here are the most...
Added a blogroll like in the old days In the heyday of blogs, many blogs published a blogroll, often is a side bar. This was a list with which showed a selection of links other blogs. It showed the blogs that had recently been updated. I...
New category in the links The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy, useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as "AI-powered" are upon us. The web is turning into a web for profit. Individual...