Sabbatical Diary: Week 4 / Month 1
· 1 min read · November 02, 2025 · #academic #cambridge #sabbaticalWell, that was a slightly slower week: it was school half-term so I had the children for three days.
I did manage to finally finish1 polishing my Emacs Tree-sitter and Eglot though. Hopefully someone finds that useful, even if only future-me.
I also finally did a “proper” sabbatical thing and submitted a proposal for some (small, local) funding to continue developing Amjad’s excellent work.
I’m travelling doing some external work this coming week in London, so I think I’ll use some of the travel time to push the writing I said I’d do through to completion so I can move on to more “proper” sabbatical work: developing research funding proposals. And maybe if it all goes well I’ll even allow myself some light coding as well – configuration polishing is all very well but it’s not really the same!
For now. Polishing configuration is never finished of course. A living breathing thing and all that.