EMACS GNUS: SPECIFY WHICH MAIL FOLDERS TO SEE AT ALL TIMES

The ultimate way to read, send and manage email (and RSS feeds, and Usenet) is with Emacs Gnus. Here is how to tell Gnus to always show a select few mail folders.

INSTALLING GUIX ON A THINKPAD X1 CARBON 5TH GEN

I've installed Guix on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Gen, as an experiment. These are my notes on the installation.

COGNITIVE ABILITIES

"Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, according to new research", the BBC reported the other day.

SHARING OUR TRANSIENT ELPHER MENU

Matto and I are sharing our Transient Menu for Elpher, entitled TMelpher.

RUN DEBIAN LIKE IT'S 2019

In three steps, you can create a VM to run any 'Old Debian release'.

BUILDING A TRANSIENT MENU FOR ELPHER

For fun, I'm helping Matto create a Transient menu for Elpher, the Gopher and Gemini Client available as an Emacs add-on. TIL how to define transient-colums.

THE BATHWATER OF OUR 21ST CENTURY

It could be time to modernise the expression.

BLOG QUESTION CHALLENGE 2025

Matto challenged me to accept the "Blogging Challenge 2025".

A month passed.

CALCUTTA IS LOCATED IN DEBIAN TZDATA-LEGACY

For those running Debian and derivatives: is Emacs' worldclock showing Bangalore ASIA instead of IST? One option: apt install tzdata-legacy.

ZNC AND RCIRC AND AUTHINFO.PGP

The password needs to be in quotes.