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contrapunctus' homepage is a personal blog at contrapunctus.codeberg.page about programming and politics. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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I use kmonad to make Space act as Control when held, and it's absolutely life-changing - not just in Emacs, but in all applications. This is my configuration - https://codeberg.org/contrapunctus/dotfiles/src/branch/produ... And here's my blog post about it - https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/blog/keyboard-machinatio...
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on “IDEmacs: A Visual Studio Code clone for Emacs”Submitted Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties as a story · 213 points
HN discussionYou may be interested in using Org [1], in conjunction with literate-lisp [2] (for Common Lisp) and literate-elisp [3] (for Emacs Lisp). Org provides various outlining commands (among other things), letting you view your program at different levels of granularity. literate-lisp/elisp advise the Lisp reader so the Org file can be loaded and/or compiled directly, without requiring tangling. Consequently, tools like xr…
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on “Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX”Submitted A User's Guide to Jabber/XMPP as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI tell people to join it, and I help them join it. Here's an example of the steps I take to engage in such advocacy for XMPP. https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide...
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on “If Big Tech social platforms are junk food, then what is Bluesky?”Submitted Unexpected opposition to free software advocacy as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Quick and Easy Guide to Jabber/XMPP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A different way to fund freedom-respecting software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's perfectly possible to monetize open source as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Prav Is Important as a story · 1 points
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