(This is a revisit of the topic of an old post from 2014. And it's about Running the Transylvania Chronicles .) Bad reasons to play the Transylvania Chronicles Your group can't decide whether they want to play Vampire the Masquerade in modern times or in the dark ages? Why not play both? Sounds cool, right? Start in the 12th century play on to 1999! But it's not the same experience. One of the…
I just published version 0.4 of my Emacs package Project Butler (it should hit Melpa in a few hours). Customizable opening projects New default behaviour A user pointed out that the defined window pattern of a project is applied within a window . So if a frame already has window splits, it doesn't yield the expected results. They suggested to run delete-other-windows by default before opening and…
A loose term with a fuzzy core The "Small Internet" is not a well defined term. Neither is it well distinguished from similar terms like " Smolnet ", " Small web ", " Web0 " 1 and others. It seems almost every person using the term "Small Internet" means something slightly different. Where all these different meanings overlap, they form a fuzzy common core, though. That common core consists of…
My Emacs package Project Butler has been accepted into Melpa . It adds a further option to the project-switch-commands of the built-in project.el and opens buffers and lays them out for you. It uses a very simple syntax to describe window layouts. For example, 1|2_3 results in a layout like this: |----|----| | | 2 | | 1 |----| | | 3* | |----|----| When set up for a project, all it takes is to…
Note: This post was original ly published on my other (and back then: only) Website. Video Series I started a video series to demonstrate how I use the wonderful Emacs package Denote to implement a Zettelkasten. The series will (probably) consist of five videos. So far, three have been published: Part 1: What do we need? Part 2: Search & Inspect Part 3: Links & Backlinks More to come: Part 4:…
Note: This post was original ly published on my other (and back then: only) Website. tl;dr Hypertext is a way to overcome linearity of text corpora. Pure hypertext has the disadvantage of losing the sequentiality of argumentation it was written in. A Zettelkasten is hypertext plus sequentiality, if it has a way to designate sequences of notes. TOC Preliminary Remark: Tim Berners-Lee and Hypertext…