Aleksandr Yakunichev

@yacodes
121 Followers
624 Following
801 Posts

Software developer interested in free, accessible, and privacy-respecting software. Using Emacs and Linux for all things digital. Interested in politics, philosophy, and cinema. Migrant and luddite.

The avatar is drawn by @postviolet via Wigglypaint.

Writing here mostly in English, but feel free to communicate with me in Spanish and Russian as well.

Websitehttps://ya.codes
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

I’m updating your operating system

Pray I don’t update it further

because of course the web is not an open protocol. it is a google product. and electron is famously difficult to package. and electron apps take up memory like chrome does because chrome is trying to be an os
"no politics in foss" enjoyers when I tell them that the Free Software Foundation and everything they've spawned is literally a political movement
Also realizing that if I start working with languages outside of Lisps, I'm gonna need modal editing. With Lisps I basically get modal editing (via lispy) but the switch between command and insert mode is implicit: when the point/cursor is on an s-expression you're in command mode, when inside an expression you're in insert mode. Without s-expressions you don't get such modality for free.
GitHub - abo-abo/lispy: Short and sweet LISP editing

Short and sweet LISP editing. Contribute to abo-abo/lispy development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Viendo 'Una batalla tras otra':

Los creadores de productos audiovisuales (películas, series) estadounidenses son físicamente incapaces de representar a organizaciones de izquierdas si no es retratándolos como terroristas, maniacos, mujeres “dominantes” y sexualizadas y tíos drogadictos, es increíble.

Office 365 and Copilot are down.

Run. Now's your chance. Don't look back; just GO

Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?
Hello Mastodon, I'm still mostly not on here because learning a new platform takes braincells I don't have, but I'm told you might enjoy this screed. Also available in French, and the blog's got a RSS feed if you wish to keep tabs on it!
https://lia-sae.net/articles/2026/02/code-is-a-wedge.html
Lia's blog - Code is a wedge and programmers are tools

Get the hammer.

Lia's blog