Hello from org-mode

29 Sep 2026

With some help from Claude, I've ported this website over from using Jekyll to using org-mode. My hope is that I can eventually stay inside of Emacs and never have to spend time figuring out why a build doesn't work.

(Read more…)

How We Made Playable Quotes for the Game Boy

14 Sep 2021

Imagine there's a specific moment in a Game Boy game that you want to share with a friend. You could share a screenshot or a video, but that's not the same as letting your friend grab the controls and try it for themselves. Many Game Boy emulators have a notion of a save state file, but in order for your friend to use one of these, they need to have access to the original game. It would be overkill (and likely illegal) to post the entire original game just so that your friend can play for a few seconds. What if you could share a playable quote from the game in the way that you can share readable quotes by just copy-pasting the specific text you want?

(Read more…)

Make events attendees want

09 May 2015

Events benefit one or more of the following groups:

(Read more…)

Notes on the book "On Death and Dying" by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

23 Mar 2015

On Death and Dying is a book that "brought about a radical restructuring of patients' relationships with their doctors and other clinicians". If you've heard about the "five stages of grief", this book is where that model came from.

(Read more…)
Tags: book-review

Notes on the book "Art & Fear" by David Bayles & Ted Orland

27 Feb 2015

Art & Fear is "a book about making art". It covers the long term strategies that the authors have seen in successful artists.

(Read more…)
Tags: book-review
Other posts