Posts from Mar 2026
Emacs Mistakes and Misconceptions That Held Me Back in 2019
When I started to use Emacs, I was just an innocent, overwhelmed computer programmer searching for a way to manage tasks and projects. Look where this got me.
Use a computer to be fast, use a computer to exercise the mind.
Does Bad Code in Your Context Window Misalign LLM Recommendations?
Can you effectively poison the well from which you drink your agentic Kool-Aid with the legacy code of yesteryear?
Make the pi Coding Agent Identify the Model in Commits
Custom coding agents running different models can nevertheless identify themselves during git commits. With pi, you just need to ask.
Identify Codex CLI Git Commits for an Audit Trail
Make the OpenAI Codex CLI identify itself as the author of git commits for an audit trail.
FreeBSDKit: Swift Package to Write Capability-Aware FreeBSD Apps
FreeBSDKit is a Swift Package to e.g. work with FreeBSD Jails, kqueue, Capsicum sandboxing.
Zettelkasten Productivity: Books Written per Books Ingested
Edmung Gröpl reframes writing productivity: it is not the mere output of books-per-person. Instead we should ask the question “how many books have grown out of what I’ve read”?