I’ve discovered, over the years, that setting a clear intention is closely correlated to a day well spent. I know that, when I decide what I want to do early in the morning—before being overwhelmed by email, Slack, Zulip, Discord, and all the other little attention grabbers—that I have a better chance of doing something I care about. It seems like, in 2026, slow, intentional work is en vogue…
To ensure that my skepticism of LLMs did not blind me to progress, and to keep my finger on the pulse, I’ve been incorporating them into my Emacs config, starting with gptel and, more recently, macher . In December, I took another look at Gemini, and noticed a significant improvement over Flash 2.5 with the arrival of Flash 3 Preview. In this post, I share the configuration I currently use,…
A New Year! Create the 2025.org journal file, channel all that post-break energy, and get ready to be Super Productive™! 💪 Oh, what’s this… a post on how to track Pomodoros using org mode . 👀 Of course, I didn’t bite. Of course not. Productivity people sure spend a lot of time writing a lot about little; and the Pomodoro technique is no exception. It can be summarized as: Set…
Update 2018-11-2: Change the URL scheme to message:// . See “Other Systems” below. org-mode is, to me, is one of the most valuable parts of the emacs ecosystem. I use it to take notes, plan projects, manage tasks, and write & publish documents. Nowadays, a lot of work arrives via email, and so it is helpful to be able to refer to messages directly from my notes or lists of tasks. The…
In org-mode, I often have the need to jump to a top-level heading matching some word. Since an org-mode buffer can be searched just like any other, I can simply invoke forward search with C-s , but this will match all occurrences of the text, instead of limiting the search to headings only. This makes it hard to search for a phrase like “Travel”, for which I have a top-level heading,…
Adobe yesterday released its free and open source Type family, Source Code Pro , which includes an eye-pleasing monospace font ideally suited for coding. In the past, and at the recommendation of Fernando Perez , I’ve used the beautiful (but non-free) Consolas by Microsoft ; now, which is best? To install on Linux: Grab the font . Copy the files to ~/.fonts . Run fc-cache -f -v . The font…
EDIT 2023-01-06: Nowadays, there is use-package . I recently tried to install MuMaMo as one of the dependencies for Takafumi Arakaki’s Emacs-based IPython notebook . The instructions on the MuMaMo webpage were as clear as mud and aimed primarily at Windows users. Enters apt-get for Emacs ! My Emacs setup is shared across multiple machines: a synchronized elisp folder, containing *.el files,…