How Many Zettelkästen Should You Have?

The Zettelkasten is a tool for personal productivity and writing, first and foremost. So the answer is almost always ...

Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two

I’m hosting this month’s Emacs Carnival. Submit your blog posts on the topic “Take Two” in June to participate!

My Procedure to Create New Zettelkasten Notes Inline

Apply wishful programming to reserve things you want to research or write about later, so that you can keep up the writing flow now.

No Open Office Hour On May 27th

Tuesday, May 27th I am out of office.

Microsoft Recall and Signal: When You Don't Worry About 3rd But 1st Party Spy Software

Signal Desktop for Windows blocks screenshots by default, using DRM protection tools, to not have the screen-scraping tool Recall silently record your conversations. At least that’s the effect that is promised.

Insert Cc and Bcc Mail Headers Conditionally in Emacs message-mode

Using a function to insert some mail composition headers only if they don’t already exist, because some mail servers won’t accept the email otherwise.

New Era of Small Software Shops

Big Tech is here to stay, but if they go full-LLM, full factory production, you will find care and craft and innovation elsewhere.