Szymon Wilczek

Writings

Technical notes, manifestos, with maybe some touch of philosophical reflections on software engineering and digital sovereignty.

  1. Screenshots of au-themes for GNU Emacs Every au-theme in Emacs Lisp, C, Magit, Dired and Org, as it looks in my own Emacs. 2026·10·17 ~3 min emacs · themes · accessibility
  2. Rules of Joker: Silesian Remik The complete, dated rulebook of Joker - the Silesian variant of rummy - as played at our table, written down once so the arguments can finally stop :) 2026·10·03 ~9 min cards · joker · remik
  3. The Cycle of New Software: On Operative Simulacra On the operative simulacra of generative code, the breakdown of Brooks' essential complexity, the illusion of historical mastery, and the displacement of human cognitive centrality in computing. 2026·09·02 ~10 min philosophy · epistemology · ontology
  4. Architecture of Inevitable Hypocrisy On the illusion of ideological purity, the doomed romanticism of rebellion, the AI enclosure of the digital commons, and the inescapable hypocrisy of modern digital life. 2026·09·01 ~22 min philosophy · privacy · sovereignty
  5. 8-Pixel Obsession: Crafting Typus Mono On the madness of condensing JetBrains Mono by 8%, and wrestling 10,000 Nerd Font glyphs into mathematical submission. 2026·08·31 ~5 min typography · emacs · fonts
  6. The Sins of Low-Level Bootstrapping On starting a no-talking programming channel and building an 8-part Linux bootloader in complete silence. 2026·08·30 ~7 min assembly · linux · youtube
  7. Building a Modular Sanctuary: An Engineer's Dualism On the eternal ping-pong between Neovim and Emacs and building a modular setup that stops pretending to be something it is not. 2026·08·27 ~13 min emacs · neovim

that’s all, for now

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