The City of Buffers

In the City of Buffers, reality is editable. The citizens manipulate their environment with keystrokes, switching contexts faster than the eye can follow. They live in Emacs, an operating system for the mind disguised as a text editor.

Tools named Circe and Buttercup manage the flow of information. Logs are trusted, daemons are tamed. It is a city of supreme customizability, where every law can be rewritten if you know the Lisp.

"Control," the cartographer writes, "is absolute here."