Read an interesting set of posts today: <lethain.com/extract-the-kernel/> and <lethain.com/executive-translation/> . The basic concept is: > ... executives are generally directionally correct but specifically wrong, and it’s your job to understand the overarching direction […]

Tried using X11 on #Linux#Wayland. Issues I faced with X11: 1. Smooth scrolling broken 2. Apps work noticeably slower 3. Screen tearing 4. This bug in Emacs GTK build […]

I have been using #karousel on #KDE for several weeks, and yesterday shifted to #PaperWM on #GNOME. Took some time to configure things like I wanted, but it's much smoother than karousel (and fancier). Overall, I like the scrolling tiling pane paradigm. I realized I've been manually doing […]

#Emacs#TIL : I learned about `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill` - which saves the existing system clipboard text into the kill ring before replacing it. This ensures that Emacs kill operations do not irrevocably overwrite existing clipboard text. A common workflow for me is to copy some […]

Something precious stolen by magic. #WitchHatAtelier#Manga#Magic

My small #orgmode #gtd customization of the day: org-ednaorg-gtd uses it to auto-forward the next TODO item in a project to NEXT when a task in the project is marked as DONE. The #orgedna trigger it […]

Note to followers of my site using RSS feeds - I've removed the microblog replies/likes etc kind of posts from the "All Posts" feed. I feel social interaction posts like that should not be part of the default feed of my website. There is always the notes feed that includes all microblog posts […]