I am Akira Komamura (he/him, Japanese). After self-teaching Linux and functional programming, I started using Emacs in 2017. I am currently working for the IT industry in Japan for a living.
Interests
I am interested in streamlining workflows inside Emacs, along with the use of Org mode and its underlying infrastructure management.
I am trying to be free from expensive hardware and expensive subscription programmes that only rich people can afford. Thus I have been a user of desktop Linux distributions. I also embrace reproducibility, idempotency, composability, evolvability, and operational transparency, so I have been using NixOS since 2020.
In the future, I might apply knowledge of web development to build a more comprehensive environment for Org mode users, especially those who are interested in using Org mode for personal knowledge and task management. AI has raised the bar. As alternatives grow more capable, I feel the need to pursue a higher path in what I build.
Projects
My open source projects are available on my GitHub profile. Most of them are related to Emacs, Org mode, and Nix, and primarily intended to serve myself. I have received a thousand stars in total, but quite a few of them are still half-done. I also worked on Emacs Twist, which is somewhat a work in progress.
I am also a co-maintainer of nix-emacs-ci, which underpins continuous integration for a large proportion of Emacs packages.
Support
Receiving
I am currently not receiving any support or sponsorship. Given my current situation, I am not actively seeking sponsorships.
Giving
I support several open-source projects and people — primarily hard-working maintainers of projects I am interested in or extensively relying on. The platforms I use for this are GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, and Patreon (anonymously).
Contact
I don’t attend offline meetups. If you want to talk, use one of the social accounts.
If you're trying to contact me, please note that some accounts with similar names are not affiliated with me.
See a list of unrelated accounts
| Site | URL | Accounts |
|---|---|---|
| X (formerly Twitter) | https://x.com/ | 🚫 akirak |
| Bluesky | https://bsky.app/ | 🚫 akirak.bsky.social |
(They might be great people—just not me.)
Trivium
The word in the domain name jingsi (靜思) means meditation in Mandarin Chinese. I don't practise meditation, though — It's a word my Taiwanese landlord used on her LINE account. I acquired this domain while I was in Taiwan, and it's just that.
Trivium is the singular form of trivia. In classical education, it refers to grammar, logic, and rhetoric — the three foundational liberal arts.