Jacob Boxerman - Home

This is my website. Work, projects, interests. Currently: undergrad at Columbia University. Professional: visit my LinkedIn. Contact: email listed on GitHub.


Recent blog posts

Building the most robust Emacs config you've seen.

How to use Nix to build Rust Cargo projects, without rebuilding dependencies.

Sharing some details about my Nix configuration.

Selected projects

Things I’ve done and enjoy doing

  • Woodworking/DIY. I teach woodshop tools at our Makerspace and spend time on my own projects. (q.v.: DIY)
  • Launched high-altitude balloons with my team at Columbia. (q.v.: Balloons)
  • Worked writing software at some interesting places.
  • Learning about RF, got my amateur radio license. KE2CZX.
  • Tuning my digital life.
  • Fountain pens and stationery. (q.v.: Stationery)

Talks/publications

This page

Previously, I generated a single page from an org-mode document using Emacs. I appreciate the simplicity of this approach. For a little more flexibility, I am now using Hakyll to generate everything from the Org source files. (q.v.: Switching my website to Hakyll)


emacs-uptime is an autoloaded interactive native-comp-function in ‘time.el’.

(emacs-uptime &optional FORMAT HERE)

Inferred type: (function (&optional t t) t)

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 23.1.

Uptime: Loading...