Emacs on Les Harris

A Small Publishing Pipeline for the Small Web

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:33:40 -0700

Introduction

Gemini is often described as the “small web”: a space with fewer frills, less overhead, and a friendlier pace than today’s HTTP-dominated internet. For me, it’s also an excuse to play with Emacs and see how far I can bend it into being my all-in-one publishing tool.

What follows is a tour through the little pipeline I’ve cobbled together in a single Emacs package: local/lh-gemini.el. With it, I can:

Twitter Images in your Emacs

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:36:30 -0700

Emacs can do a lot. This is hardly news! One of the things you can use Emacs for is to browse twitter. Why might you want to do this? Well, the main benefit is that you remain in Emacs! This means I can capture tweets easily into my org-roam database and then have them available to cite, or link, and include in my research.

The main way of browsing twitter within Emacs is to use Yuto Hayamizu’s twittering-mode. This is a great package that gives a tweetdeck-like interface within the editor for browsing twitter.

Trying Out Static Site Generation with Hugo and Org-mode

Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 -0700

I’ve been using Emacs off and on for years. What made me crawl back to it this time was org-roam which implements a Zettelkasten personal knowledge system in org-mode. After using this for a bit and really enjoying it, I thought I’d explore using org-mode itself for more of my writing and note taking needs.

One of the results of this is this site. Right now I’m typing in a full-screen zen-mode buffer holding my site’s .org file. It’s very ergonomic and by narrowing my view to just this post: entirely distraction free. Once I’m finished and I save this file, ox-hugo is going to convert this org mode file into markdown files for hugo to use to generate the whole site.