Comments

Commenting is really a cornerstone of the free and open web, so it’s really about time I enabled it for this blog.

I was thinking of using isso as a commenting server, thus having complete control of the entire webstack, but in the end, I decided it was bit too much of a hassle for such a small site this, so I simply decided to configure Nikola to use disqus instead.

Still, if I ever change my mind I can always export things from disqus, so moving things over to isso shouldn’t be too difficult.

Update 2024: For now I’ve simply decided to disable comments, however.

Printf Format Highlighting

Most of my work is done in either C or C++, so I frequently use the printf family of functions to write a wide variety of stuff to the display. Naturally, I’d like the format specifiers to stand out from the rest of the characters in the strings, so for the longest time I used this piece of elisp code to achieve that:

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Emacs, Elisp and Org Mode

I have a confession to make.

I’m sort of an Emacs fanatic.

Well, perhaps fanatic is a strong word but it does reflect the manner in which I try to integrate my whole workflow into and around it. And so far, I rarely ever have to leave the leave Emacs or the terminal. Best of all, I almost never have move my hand those dreadful decimeters to the right to use the mouse.

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