All Notes

These are my evergreen notes. Similar to a personal wiki, they should always be up to date and are ordered by modification date.

Display Unicode characters in git

By default, git escapes “unusual” characters with backslashes and their octal code. To stop this from happening, you can set core.quotepath to false. git config core.quotepath false Changelog 2023-07-23 Page creation.

Use fake built-in packages to organize your GNU Emacs config

By using use-package, you can organize your ~/.config/emacs/init.el file and group related settings together by package. So, for instance, you can both install and setup the company package by using the code below: (use-package company :config (setq c...

Tools of choice

Tools that I use and that I actually enjoy using. Blogging Jekyll Garden E-mail FastMail Headphones Massdrop x Sennheiser HD 58X Jubilee. This is probably one of the best headphones under $1,000, with the benefit of costing one tenth of that. ...

Improving concentration

When doing anything on a computer, I tend to multitask a lot. As research suggests, this is actually counterproductive and I've been looking for ways to avoid it. This is a collection of techniques that I have tried and that have worked for me. Time-...