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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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Spellcheck in Emacs on OS X Mavericks with MacPorts The MacPorts Project provides thousands of ports that greatly simplify the task of compiling and installing open-source software on a Mac. It is easy to install MacPorts. Once MacPorts...
Quickly transpose sentences and paragraphs using key bindings in Emacs Emacs has several fantastic functions that offer you superpowers when it comes to text editing. Not all of these functions come with default key bindings. To make...
Moving the feed from index.rss to index.xml After reading Google is killing the open web I started to style my RSS feed using XSLT. Unfortunately, web browsers won't open a file with the extension "rss", but just offer to download it....
Manage remote vm-bhyve guests with OS X Mavericks VNC client FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual machines. vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to create new vm's, and make...
Joined the netizen club webring The netizen club maintains a webring focused on websites that are able to be viewed in older computers. More about the webring. The web has become non-inclusive Sadly, the web has become mostly...
Elisping like it is 1998 GNU Emacs has been around for over forty years, and it has evolved tremendously during that period. Additional functionality was added, and new packages were created. Elisp also expanded with additional features....
My-Mind: a wonderful self-hosted mindmap web application My-Mind is a simple but effective web application for creating and managing Mind maps. My-Mind is free and open source, distributed under the MIT license. Small feature set and...
OpenBSD 7.7 on Acer Aspire ES 15 The Acer Aspire ES 15 is a laptop from about 2020. Some specs: CPU: Intel Celeron N3050 Display: Glossy 15.6 inch, with a resolution of 1366x768 RAM: 4GB This laptop has a 'normal' keyboard and a...
Switched to the EXWM window manager After about two decades using the ratpoison window manager, the original tiling window manager, I switched to the EXWM window manager on my laptops, running FreeBSD. EXWM EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager)...
Set up an alternative Emacs configuration Using Emacs traditionally results in the long-lasting cultivation of a personal configuration. To try out some alternative configuration, I usually create a playing field by setting up an extra,...
This website is available without encryption, and yours should be too Over the last decade, the internet has seen a major roll out of encryption of the data transmission. Every website got a certificate and URLs suddenly started with...
Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition I was tagged by Andreas for a new blog challenge, this time the so-called "Technology Edition". When Did You First Get Interested In Technology? I built my first electronics project when I was...