Sacha Chua has a nice Emacs chat intro article back from 2013. I write this post half because she asks there about my (OK, anyone’s) first Emacs moments, and half because I plan to do it for months now.

I wanted to start using Emacs 6(ish) years ago …

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This was a mail to my company’s internal Git mailing list, after I realised many colleagues can’t wrap their heads around merge conflicts.

Hello all,

I just saw this on the git-users list and thought it could help you when you bump into a merge conflict. It is …

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Before I started using Vala (and sometimes even after that) I often needed to generate new classes based on GObject.

If you have ever worked with GObject in C, you know how tedious it can be. You need a pretty long boilerplate just to register your class, and, if you …

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This is an excerpt from a novel of mine. The tree is the prophet of the highest god in that universe and thus can see everything that was or will ever be. It is said that whoever sleeps among its roots or branches will see colourful dreams about these stories …

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Although I have just started making it in C, I decided to move my Matrix GLib SDK to Vala. First to learn a new language, and second because it is much easier to write GObject based stuff with it.

For the first step I created a .vapi file from my …

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I have recently started creating a GLib implementation of the Matrix.org API. For that, I have created a GObject interface, MatrixAPI, which has as many virtual functions as API calls (which is a lot, and expanding). This way I ended up with the following scenario.

In matrix-api.h I …

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A friend of mine asked me how it is possible that she pushes buttons on her keyboard and mouse, and in an instant her peer reads the text she had in her mind. This is a step-by-step introduction of what happens in-between.

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I have recently bumped into this article. Naturally, I quickly calculated the FAIL metrics for all my projects (most of them are pretty high). To ease calculation, I made up a small page based on this list (although I have divided the points by 5; I really don’t understand …

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They were both without someone for a while now without any intention, spoken or not, to find a new one. They sat next to each other on the train and listened to music. They both peeked to each other’s screen to check what the other one is listening to …

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One thing I really miss from Django is Symfony’s @ParamConverter. It made my life so much easier while developing with Symfony. In Django, of course, there is get_object_or_404 but, for example, in one of my projects I had a view that had to resolve 6(!) objects from the URL …

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