I joined Advogato more than 10 years ago(!), and my last entries here are from ages ago. I am planning to do some more posting here; main reason for that is that I just installed the advogato.el for emacs, which hopefully allows for painless publishing from within emacs, something which unfortunately cannot be said for the interaction with e.g. Blogger.

In the last ten years, I've written a lot of software, both for money and for fun, using C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, Emacs-Lisp, and good-old C. For some reason, most of the code has involved C and Emacs, I am somehow drawn to projects where that particular knowledge is useful.

All those things that were once a bit mysterious, such as autotools, parsers, Lisp and all those obscure tools like objdump, strace, procmail,… have entered my comfort zone. Editor-wise, I am still using GNU/Emacs, as I've been done since the mid-90s, with maybe a month or so somewhere in 2000 where I went cold-turkey to vim. That did not last; I do like vim, but I am much more productive with emacs, and it's taking over more and more of my computing universe.

I went as far as starting a blog with emacs tips at the end of 2008: Emacs-Fu, where I try to share useful thing about the One True Editor. There are many little gems, but some of them are well hidden, such that I still often find some nifty trick that has been in emacs for twenty years, and I never discovered. My emacs-lisp is still a bit embryonic; good enough to glue things together, but not really fluent. I am brushing up my skills in this area though, and re-reading SICP.

I am also still a happy Gnome-user. I have learned a lot from reading the code from so many talented hackers. I think Gnome 3 offers some great opportunities, and I just got my first patch accepted into gnome-shell (it fixes the 12h/24h clock bug). But it must be said that with my workflow revolving around emacs, the desktop environment is less important.