software is a mirror that reflects the times and the environment it was created in.

this is why much software created in the 1970s counterculture was joyful and humanistic, and why much software created in the 2020s capitalistic hellscape is soul-crushing malware (adware, spyware).

#retrocomputing can mean celebrating hardware limitations and creative coding, but it can also mean celebrating personal computing - computers that are tools for liberation - bicycles for the mind, not cattle trains to the slop farm.

ADHD meant constantly fighting for structure.

Every productivity tool forced me into its boxes, rigid folders, fixed categories.

Emacs Org Mode changed the game.

I don't adapt to the tool; the tool adapts to me. No filing anxiety, just tags and capture.

Finally, a system that works like my brain, so far

#ADHD #Emacs #OrgMode #Productivity

Nobody knows how the whole system works

Link: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/nobody-knows-how-the-whole-system-works/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941882

Keeping clear of the political stuff, one can still find amusement in the fact that the U.S.A. Department of Justice spent time redacting Kevin Gallagher's email address from the EDT for emacs doco that is in the #EpsteinFiles.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00525226.pdf

#GNU #emacs #EDT

Me ... reading about the Lindy Effect in a GNU #Emacs buffer.

It seems appropriate.

Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine:

https://runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-adversarial-coding-test/

Local girl failed the coding interview:
I don't think they've got a job for me anymore now that I got their repos deleted⁉️