Auto-Mount Metal Toolchain Using a Launch Service Because Xcode 26 Cannot

Xcode 26 is incapable of compiling Metal shaders on my machine, so I need to help out to mount the appropriate toolchain with a Launch Service

Manually Mount the Metal Toolchain When Xcode Cannot

My computer suffers from Xcode not being able to access the Metal toolchain that is clearly installed on my system. I need to mount the disk image manually to fix this and make the CompileMetalFile error go away.

Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll ...”

I’m hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival. Submit your blog posts on the topic “This Year, I’ll ...”, Emacs-related new-year resolutions in January to participate.

Announcing the German Urban Sketchers Index

The unofficial Urban Sketchers Germany index got a webdesign, interactive map and filters to show the 85 groups that we now know of.

The People Who Got Me into Emacs

An end-of-the-year appreciation post for the Emacs community and the people who got me started.

How a (Wooden) Wood Plane Planes Wood

An old German instructional film for woodworkers shows in great detail what goes wrong (and right) when you plane wood in different configurations of a hand plane.

Join the All-Virtual EmacsConf December 6 and 7 and Check out My Zettelkasten Talk

Announcing my EmacsConf talk for Sunday, and reminding you that EmacsConf is in four days!