Prot Asks: Gino about Emacs for data engineering, Open Source, and Chile

2025-07-19

Raw link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTKkxhMP6LY

In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More information in the announcement I posted: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-07-10-prot-asks-chats-videos-proposal/.

In my ~1-hour talk with Gino, I learn about how Emacs is used for data engineering work. We discuss the use of Org mode for keeping notes and for producing documents/reports that include prose as well as code blocks. Part of the discussion revolves around Doom Emacs and how one can learn about the capabilities of Emacs by relying on a starter kit until they eventually decide to roll their own configuration. Gino shares thoughts on contributing to Open Source and to the interactive side of the Internet at-large, such as with this very talk. In the last minutes of the video, I ask about Chile’s diverse geography and the places one could visit there.

Gino’s package to integrate Org Babel with DuckDB: https://github.com/gggion/ob-duckdb.