Sacha Chua's Emacs Chat with Phil Hagelberg (aka Technomancy)

Phil Hagelberg is best known in emacs community for his “Emacs Starter Kit”, now as “Better Defaults” At [2014-05-10 https://github.com/technomancy/better-defaults ]

I learned about Phil Hagelberg about last year, then i think i remembered that back in 2007 or so, there's “Emacs Starter Kit”. Emacs Starter Kit has several forks now, but i think techomancy is the original author. [see List of Emacs Starter Kits, year 2013]

But what particularly caught my attention with his name was about 2 months ago, i noticed that he designed his own keyboard, called Atreus keyboard, and actually manufactured it.

You can see my analysis of it at: Heart ♥ Keyboard, Butterfly Keyboard, Cat 😸 Keyboard, Star Trek Keyboard ⌨.

Phil also uses Ergodox Keyboard. You can see it in the video.

btw, Phil Hagelberg has a catchy nick name: “technomancy”. The “techno” part means technology. The “mancy” means “magic”, usually in some divination sense, as in:

geomancy

Divination by using lines and figures.

necromancy

Divination by talking to the dead.

bibliomancy

Divination by books, especially Scriptures.

chiromancy

Aka palmistry.

hydromancy

Divination by observing water.

pyromancy

Divination by fire.

oneiromancy

Divination thru dreams.

rhabdomancy

Divination by rod: dousing.

You can see the word used in The Tale Of The Ensorceled Prince (The Arabian Nights translated by Sir Richard Burton)

Phil Hagelberg's sites:

• [2014-05-10 https://twitter.com/technomancy ]
• [2014-05-10 https://github.com/technomancy ]
• http://technomancy.us/