How a (Wooden) Wood Plane Planes Wood

An old German instructional film for woodworkers shows in great detail what goes wrong (and right) when you plane wood in different configurations of a hand plane.

Join the All-Virtual EmacsConf December 6 and 7 and Check out My Zettelkasten Talk

Announcing my EmacsConf talk for Sunday, and reminding you that EmacsConf is in four days!

Rsync File Copying from Dired with Transient Menu

Instead of async dired file copies, try rsync file copies with a bit of transient menu convenience.

What’s a Zettelkasten Good for in the Age of Affordable LLM’s?

Why spend time on your own knowledge and do so much manual labor when you could, you know, let the robots dance instead? I believe the answer lies in deep work and expertise.

Be Honest When Claude Code Writes Your Software

Change the commit author to your LLM/coding agent to make your git log history more honest and tell a story about collaboration.

Learning About Swift Concurrency (from Matt Massicotte’s Blog) with a Zettelkasten

Live video performance: Reading a post by Matthew Massicotte, and then integrating what I learned into my Zettelkasten. Suprises presented themselves, so as usual, it took a while!

Sharpening the Saw with Emacs

Moving my computing needs into Emacs has this weird effect that spending maintenance time in Emacs, I can improve both how I do stuff with the computer, and also what stuff I work on itself.