https://alexis.praga.dev Alexis Praga's blog en https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-05-08-emacs-or-cli-2.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-05-08-emacs-or-cli-2.html Fri, 8 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000 Thoughts of workflow differences between Emacs and command-line tools for productivity. A more technical approach to the previous post. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-04-12-emacs-or-cli.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-04-12-emacs-or-cli.html Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A personal account of replacing an Emacs productivity stack with CLI tools — covering note-taking, tasks, journaling, and workouts — and what the experiment revealed about tools versus habits. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-03-17-colorscheme.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2026-03-17-colorscheme.html Mon, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A review of colorschemes used over the past five years — Catppuccin, Rose-pine, Gruvbox, and Modus Themes — and why Modus Themes came out on top. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-11-28-fosdem2026.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-11-28-fosdem2026.html Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Announcing a new Bioinformatics devroom at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-11-13-gamify-blog-writing.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-11-13-gamify-blog-writing.html Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Using a badge system inspired by video games to motivate more frequent blog writing. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-07-01-command-line.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-07-01-command-line.html Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A curated list of command-line tools I cannot live without, including ghostty, nushell, helix, jj, and more. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-04-01-emacs.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-04-01-emacs.html Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Moving from Doom Emacs to a minimal starter kit, and how the Arsenik keyboard layer finally made Emacs keybindings usable. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-03-28-minimal-emacs.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-03-28-minimal-emacs.html Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 A tour of daily life inside Emacs: task management with org-mode, code with eglot, files with dired, notes with org-roam, and mail with notmuch. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-02-12-public-inbox.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2025-02-12-public-inbox.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Using public-inbox and notmuch-lore to follow high-volume mailing lists via git, without subscribing. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2024-10-01-mail.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2024-10-01-mail.html Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Setting up a local mail workflow with mbsync, notmuch, msmtp, and afew for fast search and tag-based organisation. https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2023-11-26-org-research.html https://alexis.praga.dev/blog/2023-11-26-org-research.html Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Using org-mode for research: staying organised with org-agenda and GTD, managing bibliography with citar, and writing papers.