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I have taken a moment to switch away from Doom
Emacs to regular Emacs. One of the
things I liked about Doom Emacs, however, was the nice mnemonic key chords. C-c f r , where ‘f’ and ‘r’ stand for ‘file’ and ‘recent’ respectively, running the
command recentf . 
 When using which-key-mode , it will also show human-friendly names for…
I recently changed up my blog’s theme. I previously used
 beautifulhugo , and now I use
 hugo-pure . The whole thing’s a touch more
basic, but I’ve not lost any important features. Multi-language supports works
(although it has been ages since I posted in Esperanto), and posts display just
fine. 
 The most important thing I changed from the hugo-pure theme…
Yesterday I released v3.1.0a1 of the
 REUSE tool . It is an alpha release for the
soon-to-be-released REUSE Specification v3.2, which can be found in its current
state at this link . 
 The biggest change is the introduction of REUSE.toml , a configuration file that
replaces the soft-deprecated .reuse/dep5 . This configuration file allows you to
declare the copyright and…
On-and-off over the past few months I wrote a new tool called
 Protokolo . I wrote earlier about how I implemented
internationalisation for this project. This blog post is a simple and short
introduction to the tool. 
 Protokolo—Esperanto for ‘report’ or ‘minutes’—is a change log generator. It
solves a very simple (albeit annoying) problem…
TL;DR—look at Protokolo and do
exactly what it does. 
 This is a short article because I am lazy but do want to be helpful. The
sections are the steps you should take. All code presented in this article is
licensed CC0-1.0 . 
 Use gettext 
 As a first step, you should use
 gettext . This effectively
means wrapping all string literals in _() calls. This article…
I recently happened upon an article 1 that argued against
 the four freedoms as defined by
the Free Software Foundation. I don’t actually want to link to the article—its
tone is rather rude and unsavoury, and I do not want to end up in a
kerfuffle—but I’ll include an obfuscated link at the end of the article for
the sake of integrity. 
 The…
I recently switched to
 Fedora Silverblue for my development
machine. I want to document approximately how I do this (and why it’s awesome!). 
 Fedora Silverblue 
 This article is not an introduction to Fedora Silverblue, but a short summary is
well-placed: Fedora Silverblue is an immutable operating system that upgrades
atomically. Effectively, the root filesystem is…
I like to read GNU/Linux hobbyist forums from time to time. Partially to keep up
with all the changes that are constantly happening within the lovely world of
Free Software, but mostly because I’m just very excited about GNU/Linux. It is
quite possibly the world’s biggest international collaborative effort, and
that’s just mind-bogglingly cool —the idea that…
This weekend, I attended CopyCamp in Warsaw. I arrived in a hurry and on a
whim, because I was substituting for someone who could not attend last-minute. 
 Erik Da Silva and I together held a talk on the FSFE’s latest campaign, «Public
Money, Public Code» . It is a campaign that postulates
that software used or created by public institutions ought become Free Software
and…
There are a lot of conscious choices and efforts I make when it comes to how I
do my computing. I list them here for me to review once in a while, or for your
entertainment. 
 Devices 
 I have five devices that I use at least semi-regularly. In order of use: 
 
 
 Thinkpad T470. 
 
 
 A self-built desktop computer (A10-7850k, R9 380). 
 
 
 Some…