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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Breath of Fire IV is an entry in the Japanese Role-Playing Game genre (spoilers below). The game was released about an aeon ago, which is also approximately how long it took me to finish it. It has lots of interesting ideas, but it ultimately has a pacing problem that disrupts the experience and, depending on one’s...
This is an entry from my journal. I am an introvert. This means that I expend energy when I am in the presence of other people and store energy when I am alone. Introverts are often mistaken for being shy. While there is overlap, the two are not the same. Specifically in my case, I am not shy: I mean exactly what I...
I was asked about my opinion on the violent protests in France. I do not cover day-to-day events because the details seldom are necessary for my theoretical insights. What follows is a general view on political violence, governance, and reform. Political violence as a tool Violence is a tool. It can be used by the...
Hello my friend, I have been thinking of you. The idea that you might exist moves me. This morning I realised the possibility you embody. I thought of how it can be that you are actualised somewhere in this world. It inspired me to contact you. We are strangers right now, my friend. I do not know your name, have...
I read out loud the story I wrote and published this morning, titled Letter in a bottle. It is about me writing a letter to a friend whom I have never met. The text is available here: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-10-19-letter-in-bottle/. 🔷 Consider making a donation.
C’est normal de détester la change que tu n’as choisi pas. Tu ne suis pas préparé et tu dois optimiser tes processus à nouveau. Tu n’aime pas quelque chose qui est énergivore comme ça. Mais, c’est la vie: tu n’a pas des alternatives. Les organismes qui font les changement plus rapidement et effectivement ont la...
Even a cursory view of my website will tell you that I write at length and in depth. The keyboard is an essential tool for my computing experience. It connects my brain to the machine. Words in my head get converted to characters on the screen through key presses that are embedded as muscle memory. The creative...
This is an entry from my journal. The gist is to not lose hope but also to become more decisive in finding our people. I was talking to a friend the other day. He is handsome, smart, highly educated, and has a family with kids. He basically checks all the boxes of a successful man. Advances in AI have made many,...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] Today, Saturday, 17 October 2026, at 14:30 Europe/Athens, I will work on my modus-themes for Emacs. About a year ago I turned them into a framework that theme developers can rely on. Lots of themes have been built on top of Modus since then. What I want to do...
This year I will join EmacsConf 2026 for a panel discussion. The details are not available yet, though I expect them to be made public in the coming days. You will be able to find them here: https://emacsconf.org/2026/talks/community/. Follow the links on that page to also learn about the full programme of the...
I just finished adding AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to each of my Emacs packages. I copied the files from the emacs.git trunk. Those files inform LLMs about the project’s policy to reject LLM-generated contributions. The reason for this change is that (i) I have assigned copyright to the Free Software Foundation, (ii)...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] In a couple of hours I will resume the work I am doing on my Emacs denote package. There are general refinements I wish to make, but also to continue iterating on the new denote-data-mode, which is an optional in-memory cache for Denote. I will have the chat...
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