2024-04-29 Emacs news https: ...more
Unexpected bonus of working on learning how to solve the 2x2 cube blind: ...more
#cubing
2024-04-22 Emacs news https: ...more
Starting to learn 2x2 blindfolded following J Perm's tutorial. ...more
#cubing
I haven't been able to access git. ...more
Ooh, `list-keyboard-macros` in emacs dev looks interesting. ...more
#emacs
2024-04-08 Emacs news https: ...more
2024-04-01 Emacs news https: ...more
2024-03-25 Emacs news https: ...more
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Uhhh, 2100: ...more
2024-02-26 Emacs news https: ...more
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2024-02-12 Emacs news https: ...more
Thanks to https: ...more
All right, cancelling YayEmacs for now since the kiddo would like more snuggles and we're trying to shift to less screentime. ...more
#YayEmacs
Kiddo does better when we both put off screen time until late afternoon, so I probably won't get to have as much coding time for the next little while! ...more
2024-02-05 Emacs news https: ...more
All right, I think I'm getting the hang of making show notes. ...more
Hah, I kept saying cl-flet in my Yay Emacs livestream, it's actually cl-letf. ...more
Just realized that EleventyHtmlBasePlugin was rewriting my `main` link to be an absolute URL without the `main` reference. ...more
#main #main
I hadn't realized that two-finger scroll and pinch-to-zoom actually work in Emacs on this X230. ...more
Thought a little bit more about a possible LibrePlanet lightning talk. ...more
#LibrePlanet #Emacs
2024-01-29 Emacs news https: ...more
I'd like my SVG images to appear nicely in elfeed, but I'm not sure shr-put-image follows the viewBox, even though image-toggle-display-image in image-mode does. ...more
The planet venus aggregator used for planet. ...more
2024-01-22 Emacs news https: ...more
Getting things ready for tomorrow's livestream at Sun Jan 21 7: ...more
Yay, I found a link that I'd been having a hard time finding! ...more
I liked this essay on Gates's Law, progress, and Stuart Kauffman's "the adjacent possible. ...more
I figured out how to use Graphviz to make an SVG map for my blog post at https: ...more
I reorganized my Emacs config ( https: ...more
#Emacs
2024-01-15 Emacs news https: ...more
I skimmed the tilvids Matrix chat and now I'm thinking about setting up my own single-user PeerTube instance someday. ...more
#PeerTube
Upgraded to the Eleventy 2. ...more
Dipping my toes in the world of Org Mode footnotes at https: ...more
I remember something crossed my radar recently about Org Mode tags wanting to be OneWordWithNoPunctuation and someone rewriting these to be dashed tags on export, but for some reason I can't find it in the recent posts in my Emacs News. ...more
I started calling my livestream videos Yay Emacs, but now I'm thinking about whether I'd want to get a domain name for it and considering I've been keeping emacslife. ...more
Edit: ...more
#Emacs
I figured why I was getting symbols instead of strings as parameters. ...more
I occasionally get auth errors when I use mastodon. ...more
On the way to writing a 2000+-word post about animating SVGs with Emacs ( https: ...more
#Emacs
I want to make it easier to microblog the current Org subtree. ...more
Posted the EmacsConf 2023 report at https: ...more
#EmacsConf
2024-01-08 Emacs news https: ...more
I've been figuring out how I can write about posts or project files I'm working on without needing to think about where things are on my laptop or where they get published to on the web. ...more
Trying out adding `(: ...more
All right, I managed to write about my subed-record workflow for making 47 intro videos ( https: ...more
In the spirit of getting more things out, I posted unedited captions for the rest of the talks and Q&A sessions at https: ...more
2024-01-01 Emacs news https: ...more
I wanted to use SVG elements to highlight sections of a map without having to reproduce the text and other parts of it, so I wanted it to darken only. ...more
emacs idea: ...more
#emacs
Okay, Emacs on Android can get dictation input from Google Voice Typing, SwiftKey, or Multiling O. ...more
#Emacs
Managed to get to the bottom of my Inbox. ...more
Turns out you need to insert HTML that includes Javascript by using appendChild etc. ...more
I used Emacs Lisp's xml-parse-file to get the ParticipantJoinEvent and ParticipantLeftEvent entries from the BigBlueButton raw events. ...more
#EmacsConf
Added help wanted tags to EmacsConf talks that still need captions edited for live talks / late submissions: ...more
#EmacsConf
Experimented with livestreaming Emacs News as I categorized links. ...more
2023-12-25 Emacs news https: ...more
It was super easy to use pavucontrol switch the output of my BigBlueButton test web conference room into a PulseAudio null sink that I had previously created, and then use the monitor of that sink as the input to my live speech transcription setup so that I could get it into Emacs. ...more
#Emacs #EmacsConf
Added a 1-minute video to https: ...more
Just posted a long braindump from my chat with Lio Novelli and Jurij Podgorsek of radiostudent. ...more
2023-12-18 Emacs news https: ...more
Ooooh. ...more
One step closer to figuring out live autocaptions that might be semi-tweakable! ...more
Today I used Emacs Lisp to parse Deepgram's speech recognition JSON output with utterances, punctuation, and smart format turned on and the Whisper Large model selected. ...more
#Emacs #speech #Whisper
I received a Google Open Source Peer Bonus award, which was a pleasant surprise. ...more
#EmacsConf
Four things I'm focusing on learning more about this month: ...more
All right, videos posted, pads and IRC logs copied, update sent to emacsconf-discuss, thank-you notes sent! ...more
#EmacsConf
2023-12-11 Emacs news https: ...more
It would be nice to have something that automatically refiles my OrgMode inbox headings tagged with various tags to other subtrees where I've set a : ...more
#OrgMode
Today I practised setting conditional breakpoints with edebug using "x". ...more
#Emacs
Mwahahaha, I've figured out how to use url-http-oauth to talk to the Youtube Data API from Emacs Lisp so I can update EmacsConf video titles and descriptions. ...more
#EmacsConf
Yay, I finished reading the IRC logs from `emacsconf-gen` and `emacsconf-dev` and copying interesting comments into the EmacsConf talk pages. ...more
#emacsconf #emacsconf #EmacsConf
Links to EmacsConf BigBlueButton recordings are now available from https: ...more
#EmacsConf
2023-12-04 Emacs news https: ...more
Also I think there might be some potential in the idea of running EmacsConf as two Saturdays instead of Sat-Sun, possibly 6 months apart or 1 week apart or whatever. ...more
If I process the pads and the IRC logs, I can grab interesting quotes to use in the thank-you notes to speakers. ...more
EmacsConf was tons of fun! ...more
#EmacsConf
Okay, all the prerecorded EmacsConf talks have edited captions and I've adjusted timestamps as needed, yay! ...more
#EmacsConf
Sunday's opening remarks for EmacsConf are mostly like Saturdays, except that I mention a different schedule exception (hyperdrive is on the dev track just for time reasons, it's actually a general talk) and use different screenshots. ...more
#EmacsConf
I'm updating our EmacsConf opening remarks in which we help people learn how to find their way around the conference. ...more
#EmacsConf
2023-11-27 Emacs news https: ...more
Along the lines of making things simpler and more manageable, I think we'll skip restreaming EmacsConf to YouTube and Toobnix this year. ...more
#EmacsConf
The EmacsConf hosts and check-in volunteer might only have time for the actual conference itself, so I updated my Emacs Lisp code for generating Etherpad checklists with times, talk details, links, and backup plans. ...more
#EmacsConf
Yay, all the EmacsConf talks uploaded so far either have captions or volunteers are working on captions for them. ...more
#EmacsConf
The aeneas forced alignment tool performed poorly on one of the EmacsConf videos, so I manually fixed the timestamps by using subed-move-subtitles and subed-waveform-minor-mode. ...more
#EmacsConf
I seem to have fallen into the enhanced CAPTCHA bucket that asks me to click on sooo many images of bicycles and motorcycles and traffic lights, probably because I misclicked a couple of things before (trackpoint! ...more
2023-11-20 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-11-13 Emacs news https: ...more
I keep trying to re-record my EmacsConf presentation with slower narration so that I can get closer to the 160wpm that the Internet generally recommends instead of the 193wpm I'm currently clocking at. ...more
Whee! ...more
#EmacsConf
2023-11-06 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-10-30 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-10-23 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-10-16 Emacs news https: ...more
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Dusting off my workflow for EmacsConf . ...more
#EmacsConf
2023-09-18 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-09-11 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-09-04 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-08-28 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-08-21 Emacs news https: ...more
I'm still alive, just been busy with work and playdates. ...more
2023-08-14 Emacs news https: ...more
Browsing through https: ...more
2023-07-31 Emacs news https: ...more
New Org Mode meetup organized by Ihor Radchenko <2023-08-09 Wed 19: ...more
2023-07-24 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-07-17 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-07-10 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-07-03 Emacs news https: ...more
We posted the #EmacsConf2023 call for participation yesterday and we already have two talk proposals. ...more
2023-06-26 Emacs news https: ...more
#EmacsConf2023 call for participation (speakers and volunteers): ...more
2023-06-19 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-06-05 Emacs news https: ...more
2023-05-29 Emacs news https: ...more
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2023-02-27 Emacs news https: ...more
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2023-02-06 Emacs news https: ...more
Still alive, just busy with kid things. ...more
2023-01-30 Emacs news https: ...more
Charles Choi: ...more
#emacs #OrgMode
2023-01-23 Emacs news https: ...more
I dusted off my Twiddler 2 one-handed chording keyboard so that I can hook it up to my phone. ...more
2023-01-16 Emacs news https: ...more
Just used bug-hunter
https: ...more
#Emacs
Also my blog now has "Copy code" buttons next to source blocks, and I'm quite pleased about that ...more
2023-01-02 Emacs news https: ...more
2022-12-26 Emacs news https: ...more
Captions for https: ...more
#EmacsConf
I like to have new Org entries added to the start of the subtree for easier review, but org-feed appends them. ...more
#mastodon
2022-12-19 Emacs news https: ...more
The videos from the EmacsConf Q&A sessions as well as the recording of "orgvm: ...more
#EmacsConf
Mwahaha, I am using director. ...more
The --init-directory= option in Emacs 29 is really nice for being able to spin up a clean Emacs to test package installs. ...more
I want to use my microblog posts on Mastodon as building blocks for
longer posts on my blog. ...more
#mastodon
I got the Emacs Calendar ICS file (https: ...more
#Emacs
For organizing EmacsConf 2022, we have a 325k Org file in a private repo (talk info, contact info, volunteers, etc. ...more
#EmacsConf
2022-12-12 Emacs news https: ...more
Minor tweak: ...more
I've been adding a bunch of snippets to my Emacs configuration to make
it easier for me to do stuff in Mastodon. ...more
#mastodon #mastodon
All right, I've successfully survived conference season without upgrading my X220. ...more
Starting a pad with some ideas for a possible EditorConf - might be nice to have conversations across editor communities https: ...more
#EditorConf
I'm listening to https: ...more
Org mode allows you to have inline images, and you can return them as the results of Org Babel blocks. ...more
#EmacsConf
I'm using xdotool to help me upload the rest of the EmacsConf talks to YouTube because it's annoying to try to use the API to upload videos with descriptions to a channel. ...more
2022-12-05 Emacs news https: ...more
And that's a wrap! ...more
#EmacsConf
We're getting close to having edited captions for all 26 prerecorded EmacsConf talks that speakers have uploaded so far, so we'll be able to stream them with open captions and publish transcripts on talk pages. ...more
#EmacsConf
Trying to get all my scripts sorted out so that I can manage both tracks of EmacsConf myself: ...more
2022-11-28 Emacs news https: ...more
Does anyone have any particular accessibility wishlist items for emacsconf? ...more
#accessibility #emacsconf
Interestingly, emacsconf. ...more
2022-11-21 Emacs news https: ...more
Trying to get my new Intel 7260 wifi card to work on Ubuntu 22. ...more
Two weeks to go until EmacsConf. ...more
#EmacsConf
oooh, I think It Just Works and now I don't have any more starred messages, although the Google interface still seems confused about which ones are starred or not. ...more
So now I have a nice neat notmuch inbox and a still-very-messy Gmail inbox. ...more
Boo, two jars of our dried mangoes seem to have not vacuum-sealed well, so I decided to throw them out. ...more
And now I can org-capture from a MastodonEl timeline and a quote and a link will be captured automatically. ...more
#MastodonEl #MastodonEl
Mwahahaha! ...more
#MastodonEl
One of the areas where I hope the more I learn, the less I'll worry. ...more
I think I've figured out how to display mentions using mastodon. ...more
The kiddo's in virtual grade 1 and we got a full exemption from synchronous learning, so she can show up when she wants to as long as we do the homework. ...more
I'm trying out Tusky for browsing Mastodon on my phone (Android) and I like the ability to share the post content, not just the link to the list. ...more
After a long time away, I'm back to dovecot+offlineimap+gnus and being able to do my mail in Emacs. ...more
Mysteriously, autokey recognized the scripts I've spent the last 15 minutes trying to load. ...more
I am having a hard time restoring my autokey scripts, since it doesn't seem to be a matter of plopping them into the right directory. ...more
Guix is a nice idea, but I'm not sure my system (or my patience) can handle rebuilding things, even with substitutes. ...more
Yay, I was able to restore my data from backups! ...more
At least I'm reinstalling two and a half weeks before EmacsConf instead of the night before : ...more
Well, this is exciting. ...more
It seems that replacing my Lenovo X220 tablet's wifi module with, say, the Intel 7260 might be an inexpensive way for me to stop getting interrupted whenever someone turns on the microwave. ...more
Logging sent messages to Org Mode with message-sent-hook https: ...more
Instructions said cover tightly with foil and bake for two hours. ...more
#SquirrelBrain
On one hand, I know I should get the kiddo outside because exposure to bright outdoor light helps slow down myopia, even though it's cloudy and cool. ...more
Slowly accumulating mastodon-related config: ...more
2022-11-14 Emacs news https: ...more
I added JC Helary's French and Japanese transcript to https: ...more
#EmacsConf
New GNU ELPA package: ...more
Added emacs. ...more
Ugh, I accidentally knelt on one of my circular knitting needles and I broke it. ...more
Drafting e-mails to go out to emacsconf speakers and volunteers. ...more
#emacsconf
Apparently using Tile to try to find wireless earbuds only works if you remember to charge them instead of, say, neglecting them for a month. ...more
Anyone use org-vcard and want to maintain it? ...more
We've been working on EmacsConf videos so that they'll stream with hand-edited captions and have transcripts available on the days of the conference. ...more
#EmacsConf
At some point, I should probably change the aggregator planet. ...more
This is a post from mastodon. ...more
This Reddit thread reminded me that I should explore more shortdocs and also check out helpful: ...more
Would people be interested in a bot reposting https: ...more