Suburban 144

Suburban 144 is a yearly gravel bike event organized by the Bikebash group. I participated to the 2026 edition in the 125km group. It turned out to be 130, to which I added another 4 because I missed a checkpoint and I had to go back. Another group went for a 165km variation, and another even more adventurous group started the day before, riding through the night for a total of 330km.

Events of this kind are conceived as social rides rather than competitions, and I have to say they are quite effective, considering for example that even I, notoriously unable to strike up a conversation with new people, started alone but managed to arrive in a group.

We had great weather and the ride was generally great fun, even if I had problems with the rear wheel; nothing that two plugs could not solve, anyway.

You can find more pictures on the event website.

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Search and replace across multiple documents in Emacs

This is not something I do every day, so I end up forgetting it and having to relearn it again. Here's a workflow based on consult‑ripgrep and Embark.

• consult-ripgrep to search across the files
• Ctrl-. to activate Embark
• E to export the list of matches
• Ctrl-c Ctrl-p to run wgrep-change-to-wgrep-mode and enter edit mode
• Once I'm satisfied, Ctrl-x Ctrl-s to save each of the involved buffers

Long weekend in Manchester

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Emacs config size

Let’s Play How Big Is Your Emacs Config?

In my case:

wc -l .emacs.d/lisp/larsen-* .emacs.d/init.el | ag total
    2400 total

Also

• My Emacs configuration changes in 2025
• When did you start using Emacs?

A dedicated blog instance for links

I decided to separate normal posts and links posts into two separate blog instances: blog and linkage.

(defvar +my-blogs+
  '((blog . ((org-static-blog-publish-title . "Stefano Rodighiero — Stream")
             (org-static-blog-publish-url . "https://stefanorodighiero.net/blog/")
             ;; ... and so on ...
             ))
    (linkage . ((org-static-blog-publish-title . "Stefano Rodighiero — Linkage")
                (org-static-blog-publish-url . "https://stefanorodighiero.net/linkage/")
                ;; ... and so on ...
                ))))

(defun select-active-blog (blog-name)
  (interactive (list (intern (completing-read "Select active blog for publication: "
                                              (mapcar #'car +my-blogs+)))))
  (let ((blog-options (cdr (assoc blog-name +my-blogs+))))
    (message "Setting active blog: %s" blog-name)
    (dolist (option-name (mapcar #'car blog-options))
      (set option-name (cdr (assoc option-name blog-options))))))

(advice-add 'org-static-blog-publish :before (lambda (&rest args)
                                               (call-interactively 'select-active-blog)))