Szymon Wilczek

About me

Software engineer, dualist editor enthusiast, and open-source contributor.


Background & Origins

I am a software engineer with academic and practical roots at the Silesian University of Technology (Faculty of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science - AEI).
My engineering interests lie at the intersection of low-level operating systems, kernel internals, and sovereign computing tools.

My main portfolio and showcase can be found at szymon-wilczek.me, while this website serves as my independent hypermedia space for tools, personal archives, and technical explorations.

The Dualist Philosophy (Neovim + Emacs)

Well, maybe some people would hang me for it, but in the long-standing text editor discourse, I belong firmly to the camp of the Dualists:

  • Neovim is my primary code-writing weapon and high-speed editing environment. I rely on it for the majority of my daily programming, build custom Lua plugins, and actively contribute to Neovim upstream to help make the editor even faster and more extensible.
  • GNU Emacs serves as my mission control and operational headquarters. Powered by Org-mode, it drives my digital garden, agenda, and literate programming workflows, along with occasional Lisp hacking.

Rather than treating these tools as mutually exclusive (which most people do), I use the raw modal editing speed of Neovim alongside the limitless extensibility of Emacs to create perfect balance in the force.

Upstream Contributions & Free Software

I believe deeply (really deeply) in the ethos of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). As a matter of principle, I contribute back to the projects and tools I use:

Bespoke Projects & Repositories

All of my independent experiments, and configurations are hosted on my GitHub profile.
I'm still very depenent on GitHub infrastructure, maybe one day I'll transition to something else.

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[ Keybindings & Navigation ]

M-x / Alt+x Open Emacs command runner
Shift + W Jump to writings & essays (/writings)
Shift + P Jump to software projects (/projects)
Shift + F Jump to files & archives (/files)
Shift + T Cycle color theme
Shift + B Cycle serif font
j / k Scroll down / up
g g Scroll to the top of page
Shift + G Scroll to the bottom of page
? Toggle this keybindings help cheat sheet
Esc / C-g Dismiss modal or close active menu