2025

New package dired-video-thumbnail added to MELPA!

I have created another package!, this time something that I thought was missing …

Setting Up Emacs for C# Development on Windows

Introduction

I have been developing C# with .NET 9.0 for the last year on …

Expanding Ollama Buddy: Mistral Codestral Integration

Ollama Buddy now supports Mistral’s Codestral - a powerful code-generation …

Convert copied jira kanban to org (jira-to-org)

I have been fiddling around with some very rudimentary Jira integration to org, …

The Ping Localhost Hack for Emacs Shell on Windows

For a little while now, I’ve been developing software that needs to run on …

Planning my Weekly Meals in Emacs!

And what have I been working on recently?, well lets consider the following …

Debugging Software Breakage with Git Stash and Emacs

We’ve all been there, your code was working perfectly from a clean …

Customizing Emacs Completion: From Fido's Fuzzy Matching to Literal Substring

For my completion framework, I’m currently using fido-mode, and more …

A Better Way to Indent Your Entire Buffer in Emacs?

As an Emacs user, you’ve probably found yourself wanting to clean up the …

Fast Recent File Navigation in Emacs

As an Emacs user, you’re always hunting for ways to shave milliseconds off …

Ollama Buddy v1.0: A Simple AI Assistant

After months of development and refinement, I’m excited to announce Ollama …

Building an Emacs Package from Scratch: Cursor Heatmap Tutorial Part 2

In our ongoing quest to construct a new fully functional Emacs package, in Part …

Red pandas also love Emacs!

Not much of a post this week (and in fact this is pretty low effort!), but here …

New Package! - Simply Annotate: A Lightweight Annotation System

Yes thats right, yet another annotation system!, in this case it is a …

Setting up a C# Language Server (csharp-ls) on an Air-Gapped Windows System

For a little while now, I have been developing C# applications at work and on …

Ollama-Buddy 0.13.1: Curl backend support and some optimizations

This is more of a maintenance update. The main headline is the addition of an …

Emacs dired with Ultra-Lightweight Visual Icons

If you spend any time browsing files in Emacs, you’ve probably wished for …

Building Your Own Orderless Style Completion in Emacs Lisp

While packages like orderless provide flexible “any word, any order” completion, …

Bank Buddy - Your Financial Analysis Companion for Emacs!

I created a new package!, here are the details:

Bank Buddy is an Emacs package …

Ollama Buddy 0.12.0: User Prompt Library, File Attachments, Vision and Context Tracking

There have been quite a few updates recently. The main highlights include …

The Smallest of Productivity Gains by Instantly Opening Dired Files when isearching

If you’re an Emacs user (which I know you are), especially one who lives in …

Discovering Treasures in Emacs-solo

While exploring Emacs-solo, I was struck by how closely its philosophy aligned …