Lars Ingebrigtsen
Lars Ingebrigtsen
My name is Lars Ingebrigtsen. My day job used to be a CTO in banking, but I relax by doing some Emacs work.
August 2026
September 2026
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All posts (40)
I bought this 2005-era translation device because… because… OK, here’s the thing: Normally when I’m reading something in French, I’ve got some proper tools handy for doing translation — I’m gonna need it. But other times, like when I’m reading an English book from the 40s, there’ll be a few French phrases here and...
Yes! Comics! And for music, I’ve been listening to my albums chronologically on and off for almost a year now — starting with the late 60s, and I’m now up to 1993, I think… It’s kinda fascinating how certain years were more or less exciting musically. 1993 is probably some kind of low point? At least I bought a...
Last night, the sliding door (in front of my shelves of shortboxes of comics) popped off when I was sliding it open. I had noticed that it had gotten a bit “sticky” lately, but hadn’t really investigated. And… this turned out to be the problem: Those “rails” at the bottom slid out. Like WTF. And it turns out that...
I bought this 3D printed Sad Keanu like a decade ago? But the other day he fell off the shelf and broke into a number of pieces. So I was going to throw it away, but then I saw that I still actually had all the various bits, and the breaks look clean — i.e., no actual splintering into dust anywhere. So I applied...
Hey, it’s the… *counts on fingers*… 22nd anniversary of me using Emacs to watch TV and movies! And in the start, it was a snappy, focused package that just listed directory contents and let me play the files… but then it grew to take care of resuming where I left off, and fixing the frame rate of the TV to fit the...
I’ve spent a day test-driving that Emacs minor mode for spellchecking using an LLM that I wrote the other day. I went through all the posts on the Total Eclipse blog (all 260 of them) to see whether the thing works or not. And, yes, it works now, but it took some tweaking. Well, I rewrote the mode. Twice. My...
A few days back, I hacked up a little minor mode for Emacs to use an LLM for spell checking. (Before you get a heart attack — I did not say “editing”, “getting ideas” or “research”: Just spell checking. Using an LLM for actual writing isn’t just a bad idea — it leads to abhorrent results.) I’ve been running a random...
That’s what I say, jokingly, every time I discover that English doesn’t have that particular word I’m looking for to distinguish between two natural concepts. And it’s a joke, because of course English is a huge language, what with it swallowing up several other languages wholesale and then just misspelling all the...
The other week I made a calendrical display for the eink thing I have. The problem is that I don’t really use a calendar — I guess the main reason is because I hate planning, but the other reason is because I really dislike all the calendar entry interfaces I’ve used. I haven’t used all that many, though, so I may...
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