https://somethingwonderful.eu Something Wonderful — a personal blog by Nathaniel Harari en-us Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:09:03 +0000 Emacs Org-mode https://somethingwonderful.eu/independent-publishing-from-emacs.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/independent-publishing-from-emacs.html Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Don't get me wrong: I love Emacs. After all, which Emacs user doesn't? It's the best thing since sliced bread and, if you use enough (()), you can probably slice your bread with it as well. https://somethingwonderful.eu/tabaway-kanban-boards.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/tabaway-kanban-boards.html Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I've been adding full Kanban board capability to Tabaway today. https://somethingwonderful.eu/twenty-five-years-of-the-worst-timeline.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/twenty-five-years-of-the-worst-timeline.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I was there. https://somethingwonderful.eu/new-tabaway-poster-.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/new-tabaway-poster-.html Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Yeeeesss...that's right, folks! Introducing TABAWAY! Brought to you by the good folks at Tabaway Labs! A subdivision of SomethingWonderful! https://somethingwonderful.eu/new-theme-from-the-future-.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/new-theme-from-the-future-.html Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Yeeesss...that's right, folks! Straight from the future, we have a new theme here from SomethingWonderful! Thanks to Nucleon Power ™, we here at SomethingWonderful want to bring you what our genius... https://somethingwonderful.eu/replacing-coffee-with-tea.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/replacing-coffee-with-tea.html Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 My last cup of coffee was four days ago. This is my third day drinking only tea. My routine used to be a big coffee press mug of coffee every morning - which is ungodly early for most people as I w... https://somethingwonderful.eu/announcing-tabaway.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/announcing-tabaway.html Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I'm announcing the launch of my application "Tabaway" today, after nearly three full months of constant work, debugging, testing, and daily personal use. https://somethingwonderful.eu/a-real-idiot.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/a-real-idiot.html Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 BBC: Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America https://somethingwonderful.eu/-backing-up-.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/-backing-up-.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Since I take many notes in Emacs with org-mode and Denote, I tend to instantly invoke Magit on the fly to push my changes instantly to my server. However, using git (via Magit) requires you to type... https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-ve-been-working-on-something.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-ve-been-working-on-something.html Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I haven't posted in a few months, but there's a good reason for that: I've been working on an app which I'm about to release as well as the service related to it. I think it'll be good. In fact, I ... https://somethingwonderful.eu/euro-office.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/euro-office.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The EU, along with some very big EU cloud companies, have banded together to build an alternative to Microsoft Office. It's called Euro Office. https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-switched-to-qobuz.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-switched-to-qobuz.html Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I've been on Apple Music literally since the first day it started. I've loved Apple Music ever since and I have no real issues with them. However, since I've been migrating away from all things Ame... https://somethingwonderful.eu/lemmy-needs-diversity.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/lemmy-needs-diversity.html Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I've been trying to use Lemmy more and more to replace Reddit. I like the UI a lot and I've subbed to a ton of varied subs. However, 99% of my daily Lemmy feed still consists of extreme left-wing ... https://somethingwonderful.eu/political-violence.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/political-violence.html Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Ever since the first attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, PA, and since the killing of Charlie Kirk, I've seen a consistent theme coming from the mainstream left about how political v... https://somethingwonderful.eu/how-to-learn-celcius-and-dress-like-a-physicist.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/how-to-learn-celcius-and-dress-like-a-physicist.html Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 You're an American, and you're in Europe. You've been brought up on the inferior Fahrenheit scale (which makes no reasonable sense to any physicist), and you can't figure out what to wear. What do ... https://somethingwonderful.eu/the-interminably-obscene-timelines-of-social-media.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/the-interminably-obscene-timelines-of-social-media.html Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I'm probably on the spectrum (never officially diagnosed as far as I know), but I get sucked into projects rather easily. This means that other things around me become forgotten or go unnoticed for... https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-journelly-to-sync-in-france.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/getting-journelly-to-sync-in-france.html Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 As part of the whole "Getting off of the American Tech Stack" thing, and eschewing iCloud as much as possible, I've run into a particular problem here in France. https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-m-finally-set-up.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/i-m-finally-set-up.html Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I'm finally set up. It's been an incredible ride. I'll have to update my page on getting off of the American Tech Stack. I know that many others have been documenting their progress on their own bl... https://somethingwonderful.eu/early-sunday-morning-cleaning.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/early-sunday-morning-cleaning.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 One of the things which I changed in my life is my schedule. I used to go to bed after dawn on most days. I liked the quiet time of the night. But then, I'd wake up around noon and felt like the en... https://somethingwonderful.eu/rss-reduce-enshittification.html https://somethingwonderful.eu/rss-reduce-enshittification.html Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Cory Doctorow has a wonderful piece out today called Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) in which he talks about RSS feeds. RSS, for those who don't know, is one of the best thi...