Hi, I'm Boris—an engineering manager from Chișinău, Moldova, currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine. My time is split between work, tinkering with Emacs, exploring the world of wine, and embarking on quests in Final Fantasy XIV (and other video games).
I share my Emacs journey through open source projects on GitHub, alongside technical writing and musings on this site.
I also document my wine experiences and tasting events on 🍇 Barberry Garden 🦄—a personal wine database built with Emacs and org-mode.
If you appreciate my work, consider supporting me on Patreon.
P.S. d12frosted means dice with 12 sides from the Chessex™ frosted series. I used to play tabletop RPGs. Just a little bit.
After years of requests, emacs-plus finally offers pre-built binaries. Skip the 30-minute compile, get native compilation that just works, and never see "library not loaded" again. Here's how we made it happen.
On AI, Craftsmanship, and the Slow Erosion of Productive Friction.
A 15-minute introduction to vui.el - React-style declarative UI components for Emacs. Learn props, state, composition, and the basics of building interactive interfaces without wrestling with buffers.
Vulpea v2 drops its org-roam dependency. Here's how I got there - from monster SQL queries to materialised views to finally writing my own foundation.
How emacs-plus handles customisation without maintainer burnout. A three-tier system for patches and icons, 76 community icons, and a configuration file that works for both formula and cask installations.
How to get useful macOS notifications from Claude Code with proper icons, repository context, and workspace information using hooks and terminal-notifier.
How to implement nestable batch operations that defer side effects until the outermost batch completes. A pattern using depth counters and unwind-protect that's surprisingly tricky to get right.