Dired, the default file manager in Emacs

Nov 01, 2025

Dired (C-x d) is a file manager in Emacs. My setup has the following features: dual-panes withd dwim (do what I mean), hide/show file attributes, display/hide dot files, all-the-icons theme.

Απάνω Στην Τριανταφυλλιά - On the rose bush

Nov 14, 2024

"Upon the Rose Bush" (Apano Stin Triandafillia) is one of my favourite Greek folk song from Macedonia.

Over or below the red line

Oct 12, 2020

Current and historical mortality data can be used for assessing the net cost of current pandemic. Hungarian data for the first eight months are favourable compared to the US. However the infection curves are rising in several EU countries while the spread of the virus seems to be slowing down in the States.

Adding European capitals to Eurostat map

Aug 31, 2020

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Mapping Eurostat data

Aug 26, 2020

Recently, I found a post on mapping Eurostat data, which was written in 2016 by Markus Kainu. It is not too old, but an important function within {eurostat} package became obsolote since then. merge_eurostat_geodata() have been abondoned because of switching to simple features standard. After some searching I found a solution to this issue1. (It also turned out that Markus Kainu is one of the devs of {eurostat}.) So, I made some minor changes in the original code base in order to reproduce and update some of the maps on NUTS2 (regional) level.

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