Honza Pokorný

A personal blog

I'm a Czech-born Reformed Presbyterian, working as a senior software engineer at Red Hat, currently living in Nova Scotia, Canada. You will often hear me talking about coffee, photography, old books, Emacs, functional programming, weird keyboards, text interfaces, learning human languages, jazz, and many other hipster things...

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You can find me in many of the usual places like Twitter, GitHub, and some of my projects are hosted on Smithy.

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2025

James Durham: How to listen to a sermon May 12, 2025

Francis Bacon: Of Studies April 16, 2025

2024

How to use Common Lisp on NixOS with C libraries November 19, 2024

Inside-out templates November 18, 2024

The So-Called ESV October 17, 2024

Who is the real Romanist? October 8, 2024

Running with my dog September 18, 2024

Proverbs categorized September 3, 2024

Chicago-style essays in org-mode March 7, 2024

Read it through by Philip Green February 29, 2024

2023

Making the Ergodox work June 23, 2023

Read it later the hard way April 21, 2023

The Singing of Psalms in the Worship of God April 13, 2023

I love my Kindle March 14, 2023

Bootstrapping a Hare development environment with Nix March 3, 2023

Using the Fujifilm X100V as a film camera February 10, 2023

You think film prices are high now? February 10, 2023

Summer's end January 9, 2023

2022

A few quotes from The King James Version: Its tradition, text, and translation October 28, 2022

Not by bread alone bible reading plan October 21, 2022

Evaluation of the Modern English Version translation September 30, 2022

Project launch: The Greek New Testament September 27, 2022

One book per week September 13, 2022

Professor Grant Horner's Bible-Reading System September 13, 2022

Children and screen time February 3, 2022

How to side-load epub files to Kindle the right way January 31, 2022

2021

How we may read the Scriptures with the most spiritual profit October 12, 2021

2020

Why the Westminster Reference Bible is the best all-around bible you can buy October 30, 2020

The cost of shooting film in 2020 in Canada June 17, 2020

The Lord's prayer and the critical text January 9, 2020

2019

Password Management For a More Civilized Age December 4, 2019

William Ames on Preaching June 14, 2019

Calvin on the eighth commandment May 13, 2019

John Girardeau, Musical Instruments in the Public Worship of the Church April 8, 2019

On having a standard translation of the Scriptures April 1, 2019

If novels were formatted like bibles January 25, 2019

He forgave how much?! January 22, 2019

2018

Law of Christ is Equivalent to the Law of the Ten Commandments November 29, 2018

How to save hundreds of dollars on theology books October 25, 2018

Is prayer a vibration? October 22, 2018

2017

Red-letter theology November 26, 2017

Comparing editions of the Institutes November 24, 2017

My journey to find the best Bible November 2, 2017

Why the ESV is both excellent and terrible October 16, 2017

Counting in your head June 3, 2017

Should I finally drop QWERTY? April 28, 2017

Teaching my son about computers April 20, 2017

Best baby advice I ever got February 23, 2017

The Marathon obsession January 26, 2017

Water consumption January 19, 2017

2015

Internal Clojure libraries November 6, 2015

Language choice November 2, 2015

Building a Redis clone in Haskell September 3, 2015

Programming languages in a nutshell February 18, 2015

Markdown editors are an anti-pattern February 18, 2015

2014

Single vs Many Programming Languages May 21, 2014

How to use piggieback in vim-fireplace to hack cljs March 20, 2014

2013

Lisp parentheses December 12, 2013

Masterless Saltstack December 11, 2013

How to compile vim July 18, 2013

How I back up my laptop July 15, 2013

When HN gets in the way July 13, 2013

Duplicate Bible verses June 25, 2013

Bible verses by length June 25, 2013

I hate your code June 21, 2013

Who are the weak Christians? June 13, 2013

Text editor UI May 24, 2013

Google plus adoption May 21, 2013

Building a Lisp to Javascript compiler May 13, 2013

Software Engineering Interviews May 9, 2013

International families April 10, 2013

Calvin on predestination March 1, 2013

Haskell vs Clojure syntax February 12, 2013

Canada is a schizophrenic country January 23, 2013

2012

10 chapters December 28, 2012

Gender inclusive language December 19, 2012

Mutt sidebar labels October 30, 2012

Haskell Strings October 24, 2012

On Learning Clojure August 26, 2012

Large Javascript Application Tips July 16, 2012

Why you should use Heroku for your next start-up May 21, 2012

How I use git May 11, 2012

Standing desk - first impressions April 24, 2012

How Rackspace deleted my server February 15, 2012

Remap CapsLock to something useful February 7, 2012

How not to depend on PyPI February 4, 2012

Disrupt the multiple-gmail space January 18, 2012

Upgrading your Django media files to use a CDN January 17, 2012

Inerrancy January 13, 2012

Writing Node.js modules January 5, 2012

2011

Interpretation mistakes December 22, 2011

Programmers and sore eyes December 13, 2011

Data-driven javascript applications October 25, 2011

On why we lack mature Christians October 21, 2011

Steve Jobs and Richard Stallman October 7, 2011

On heaven and boredom October 5, 2011

Bible translations and the Christian life October 1, 2011

Using Chef with small Django apps September 20, 2011

Google APIs - Y U NO WORK September 13, 2011

DjangoCon 2011 Take-Aways September 10, 2011

The pre-GPS world July 28, 2011

Why I love reStructuredText July 19, 2011

On prayer and the closing of the eyes July 18, 2011

What is a blog? July 4, 2011

Why I don't like the Ruby community June 20, 2011

The best IDE June 19, 2011

Scalability and feet and asses June 19, 2011

Install Ruby gems into virtualenv June 10, 2011

Deploying Django with nginx and gunicorn May 30, 2011

The importance of git rebase May 14, 2011

The modern web developer and open source licenses May 3, 2011

Virtual machines for Django developers April 19, 2011

Why you should be using CoffeeScript April 11, 2011

The latest greatest technology April 9, 2011

JSLint syntax checker for vim April 5, 2011

The Irrationality of Being an Apple Fanboy March 18, 2011

7 ways Github has changed the open source world March 5, 2011

How To Convert Vim Colorschemes To Pygments Themes February 25, 2011

Why Nokia chose Windows over Android February 11, 2011

How My Website Works January 22, 2011

Android Development disappointments January 18, 2011

Apple Finally Catches Up To Linux January 17, 2011

2010

How Money Is Made Online December 14, 2010

Why I Chose Android November 2, 2010

How To Use Twitter OAuth On Android September 28, 2010

Posterous-style Blogging On App Engine July 7, 2010

Twitter Success Story - Hurricane Bill June 2, 2010