Emacs double anniversary

tag(s): #linux #programming #emacs Recently this article (which I haven't read 👀) was posted to both reddit (still trying to quit) and Slashdot (one of the sites that would replace reddit, at least for tech news) about the 50th anniversary of Emacs. Seeing that reminded me to check my notes (technically, emails) and September 2026 was my 10th anniversary as an Emacs user. Back in 2016, I wouldn't have imagined I was going to publish open source code with a GPL license (which I did in my last few repositories). It's not that I didn't know about the Free Software movement, I just didn't care. Back then I wasn't a Linux user. I had a passing idea of what Lisp was, but couldn't have recognized it at a glance. I didn't care about privacy, digital rights... How I realized the date, and my first cheat sheet A while ago (late 2024, as per the email) I was digging in my old @outlook.com account looking for the first version of my init.el file. I did not have a dotfiles repository, but instead…