Szymon Wilczek

About me

Software engineer, dualist editor enthusiast Emacs convert, and open-source contributor.

contact & key → mail, gpg, a postcard

Background & origins

I am a software engineer with academic and practical roots at the Silesian University of Technology (Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science). My engineering interests lie at the intersection of low-level operating systems, kernel internals, and sovereign computing tools. The years so far, studies, work and certificates, are laid out as stepping stones.

Everything I build is pressed and labelled in projects; the rest of this website is my independent hypermedia space for tools, personal archives, and technical explorations. What I read stands on the bookshelf, and what I work with lies on a tea tray. The whole garden is drawn on the map if you ever get lost.

The dualist philosophy The Church of Emacs

Well, maybe some people would hang me for it, but in the long-standing text editor discourse, I belong belonged firmly to the camp of the Dualists:

GNU Emacs

Mission control and operational headquarters. Powered by Org-mode, it drives my digital garden, agenda, and literate programming, with occasional Lisp.

Neovim

My primary code-writing weapon and high-speed editing environment. I rely on it for most daily programming, build custom Lua plugins, and contribute to Neovim upstream .

Rather than treating these tools as mutually exclusive (which most people do), I use the raw modal editing speed of Neovim alongside the limitless extensibility of Emacs to create perfect balance in the force.

left as I wrote it. I don't take back what I once believed by deleting it; this stays here for good.

Since then I have gone over to the Church of Emacs, one hundred percent - maybe it is inevitable? Since that day, the code, the garden, the agenda, all of it now happens in one Lisp machine. Neovim taught me a lot and my patches upstream still stand; I just don't use it as often anymore.

Upstream contributions & free software

I believe deeply (really deeply) in the ethos of Free and Open Source Software. As a matter of principle, I contribute back to the projects and tools I use:

Bespoke projects & repositories

All of my independent experiments and configurations are hosted on my GitHub profile

the water was here before you.

the wolf has ten strokes.

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salina
aurum
herbarium
parchment
whispergrove
M-x 0/0

keybindings & navigation

M-x / Alt+x Open Emacs command runner
Shift + W Jump to writings & essays (/writings)
Shift + F Jump to files & archives (/files)
Shift + T Choose colour theme (au-themes-select)
j / k Scroll down / up
g g Scroll to the top of page
Shift + G Scroll to the bottom of page
? Toggle this keybindings help cheat sheet
Esc / C-g Dismiss modal or close active menu