space-tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs: A small Emacs package that organizes workspaces into a tree of arbitrary depth, built on the built-in window-state-get / window-state-put primitives.
Completion is a Substrate, not a UI: The opening of a short series on incremental completing read — a ubiquitous interaction pattern, a structural shift in cognitive cost, and a uniquely Emacs-shaped opportunity.
A VOMPECCC Case Study: Spotify as Pure ICR in Emacs: Building a Spotify client with zero custom UI by feeding candidates into Consult, Marginalia, and Embark — 493 lines of shim on top of the completion substrate.
VOMPECCC from Scratch: Picking Produce with ICR in Emacs: A from-scratch walkthrough that layers Vertico, Orderless, Marginalia, Consult, Embark, and Prescient on top of stock completing-read to build a ~90-line produce picker.
Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC: Over a dozen high-impact workflows: multi-file refactor, two-stage ripgrep, M-x by docstring, batch action, mid-prompt pivot, session resume, complex-command replay, and more!
Incremental Suggesting Read: When the Match Isn't in the Characters: ISR is ICR with the candidate source swapped from a corpus to a model — candidates surface by meaning (semantic retrieval) or are generated whole (generative synthesis), all on the same Consult, Marginalia, and Embark substrate.
May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns: My entry for the May 2026 Emacs Carnival — a botanical case for why Emacs is an "Effortless Bloom", tracing the fan-in/fan-out patterns (universal buffers, ICR, recognize-dispatch via Embark, language servers) that compose to make computer use effortless.
Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark: A note-taking pattern where you mark passages in place — webpages, ebooks, RSS, code, anywhere text lives in Emacs — implemented in org-remark. Highlights persist on revisit, and daily review reduces to a grep for today's date link.
7. Literary Criticism
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest: A typographic close-reading of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest that reads the darkened 'o's, d's, p's' of a single Subject's note as Wallace's Hofstadterian signature of Orin Incandenza's hidden trauma.
Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket: Reading Infinite Jest through the two ways to construct a Sierpinski Gasket — Wallace built the gasket top-down by placing three institutional vertices (ETA, Ennet, AFR) around the lethal absent center; readers fill in the same Gasket bottom-up by playing a chaos game on each reread.
8. Experiments in Visualizing Publicly Available Healthcare Data
The Geography of Medicare Spending: How Medicare spending per beneficiary varies by more than 2.5x between states, with higher spending predicting neither better outcomes nor lower readmissions.
Your Neighborhood's Health Profile: The CDC measures 40+ health indicators at ZIP code level – exploring how health outcomes are hyperlocal.
The Telehealth Revolution: How COVID-19 forced a telehealth experiment, taking Medicare from essentially zero to 47% adoption in a single quarter.
What Medicare Pays for Your Surgery: How hospitals bill Medicare 3-7x what Medicare actually pays, with billed charges varying 10x between hospitals for the same surgery.