2024-03-25 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Important updates: Demonstration of vulnerability - rename to .org, open in Emacs and check messages buffer...
2024-03-18 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Help wanted: ivy-posframe looking for new maintainer (@Mehrad@fosstodon.org) Looking for Emacs users in Hamburg for meetups...
2024-03-11 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: Atelier Emacs (in French): Dans une semaine c'est l'atelier Emacs Montpellier au Bib !...
Cubing and Emacs: Checking out the competition :: Sacha Chua
There's an upcoming cubing competition. For the 3x3 event, the top 75% of the first round...
2024-03-04 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/299015500/ Wed Mar 6 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930...
2024-02-26 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Help wanted: FYI: volunteer needed for maintaining centaur-tabs Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/...
2024-02-19 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100...
2024-02-12 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: Emacs.si meetup (Ljubljana, Slovenija): , April 4, 2024 at 7:00 PM Emacs APAC: Announcing...
2024-02-05 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
[2024-02-05 Mon] Added link to org-link-github. Upcoming events: Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (IRL...
2024-02-04 Yay Emacs: community plumbing, streaming setup, Emacs News highlights, transcript export :: Sacha Chua
Watch on YouTube Note: I kept saying cl-flet, but it's actually cl-letf, which is the one...
2024-01-29 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago...
2024-01-28 Yay Emacs: closed captions and synchronized highlights for audio clips; exploring Emacs Lisp functions :: Sacha Chua
<2024-01-28 Sun 07:30-08:15> Watch on YouTube The timestamps in this transcript aren't linked up with the...
2024-01-21 Yay Emacs: copy link, Spookfox + Org Babel, choosing what to hack on, SVG highlighting, ical :: Sacha Chua
<2024-01-21 Sun 07:30-08:15> Very rough notes, just gotta get them out there! =) Watch on YouTube...
Updating Planet Venus so that planet.emacslife.com can handle mix-blend-mode in my SVGs :: Sacha Chua
I wanted to easily turn segments from my Yay Emacs livestreams or recorded narration into closed-caption...
Patching elfeed and shr to handle SVG images with viewBox attributes :: Sacha Chua
[2024-01-26 Fri]: Submitted the patch to emacs-devel. I want to use more SVG sketches in my...
My Evil Plan for Yay Emacs! :: Sacha Chua
Here's a clip from my 2024-01-21 Yay Emacs livestream about my goals for Yay Emacs and...
2024-01-22 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Emacs 29.2: Emacs 29.2 released (Reddit, Irreal, Tim Heaney, Mario Jason Braganza) Upcoming events: EmacsSF (in...
Yay Emacs: Using elisp: links in Org Mode to note the time and display messages on stream :: Sacha Chua
I like adding chapters to my videos so that people can jump to sections. I can...
Running the current Org Mode Babel Javascript block from Emacs using Spookfox :: Sacha Chua
I often want to send Javascript from Emacs to the web browser. It's handy for testing...
Large language models and me :: Sacha Chua
Summary (1895 words): There's a lot of hype around large language models (LLMs) or generative pre-trained...
Org Mode custom link: copy to clipboard :: Sacha Chua
I have a tiny corporation for my consulting. I do all of my own paperwork. I...
2024-01-15 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111754123619904846 Wed Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto...
Adding an XSL stylesheet for my RSS and Atom feeds :: Sacha Chua
Inspired by the styling on Susam's blog feed, I followed this tutorial on using XML stylesheets...
Yay Emacs 2024-01-12: EmacsConf 2023 report, SVG animation, Embark, Org Mode links :: Sacha Chua
Watch on YouTube For this livestream, I experimented with scheduling it for 8:00 AM EST instead...
Animating SVG topic maps with Inkscape, Emacs, FFmpeg, and Reveal.js :: Sacha Chua
Getting the sketches: PDFs are not all the same Animation style 1: displaying paths in order...
Using Embark and qrencode to show a QR code for the Org Mode link at point :: Sacha Chua
John Kitchin includes little QR codes in his videos. I thought that was a neat touch...
2024-01-08 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Help wanted: Looking for Emacs users in Pennsylvania to start a meetup (@jameshowell@emacs.ch) ada-mode: Looking for...
Using an Emacs Lisp macro to define quick custom Org Mode links to project files; plus URLs and search :: Sacha Chua
I'd like to get better at writing notes while coding and at turning those notes into...
EmacsConf backstage: making lots of intro videos with subed-record :: Sacha Chua
It's nice to feel like you're saying someone's name correctly. We ask EmacsConf speakers to introduce...
Quick notes on livestreaming to YouTube with FFmpeg on a Lenovo X230T :: Sacha Chua
[2024-01-05 Fri]: Updated scripts 2024-01-03-03 Quick thoughts on livestreaming #sharing #video #streaming #community.png Text from the...
Using Puppeteer to grab an image from the SuperNote's screen mirror :: Sacha Chua
Partly inspired by John Kitchin's video showing how to copy screenshots from his iPad and do...
Using consult and org-ql to search my Org Mode agenda files and sort the results to prioritize heading matches :: Sacha Chua
I want to get better at looking in my Org files for something that I don't...
Highlight the active modeline using colours from modus-themes :: Sacha Chua
I wanted to experiment with for colouring the mode line of the active window ever so...
2024-01-01 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
[2024-01-01 Mon] move https://git.mitchmarq42.xyz/mitch/vimcolors to the Appearance category Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/297487956/ Wed Jan...
2023-12-30-01 Daily moments :: Sacha Chua
2023-12-30-01 Daily moments #drawing Text from sketch Inspired by Arne Bab (who mentioned being inspired by...
Working with the flow of ideas :: Sacha Chua
2023-12-25-07 Flow of ideas #writing #metaphor Text from sketch 2023-12-25-07 Flow of ideas What can I...
Using subed-record in Emacs to edit audio and clean up oopses :: Sacha Chua
Finding enough quiet focused time to record audio is a challenge. I often have to re-record...
Automatically refiling Org Mode headings based on tags :: Sacha Chua
I have lots of different things in my Org Mode inbox. Following the PARA method, I...
EmacsConf backstage: Trimming the BigBlueButton recordings based on YouTube duration :: Sacha Chua
I wanted to get the Q&A sessions up quickly after the conference, so I uploaded them...
EmacsConf backstage: Figuring out our maximum number of simultaneous BigBlueButton users :: Sacha Chua
A few people have generously donated money to EmacsConf, so now we're thinking of how to...
Yay, I can get live speech recognition results from Emacs to Etherpad :: Sacha Chua
I want to see if we can caption EmacsConf live presentations and Q&A sessions, even if...
2023-12-25 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago...
Audio braindump workflow tweaks: Adding Org Mode hyperlinks to recordings based on keywords :: Sacha Chua
2023-12-15-01 Audio braindump workflow tweaks #emacs #orgmode #subed.png Audio recording is handy for capturing thoughts as...
Thinking about how to reinvest the Google Open Source Peer Bonus :: Sacha Chua
I received a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for my contributions to GNU Emacs, which was...
Braindump from radiostudent.si interview with Lio Novelli and Jurij Podgorsek: Emacs, focused time :: Sacha Chua
Lio Novelli and Jurij Podgorsek of radiostudent.si interviewed me for their monthly radio show about free...
Getting live speech into Emacs with Deepgram's streaming API :: Sacha Chua
This is a quick demonstration of using Deepgram's streaming API to do speech recognition live. It...
2023-12-18 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver -...
EmacsConf backstage: Using Spookfox to publish YouTube and Toobnix video drafts :: Sacha Chua
I ran into quota limits when uploading videos to YouTube with a command-line tool, so I...
EmacsConf backstage: Making a (play)list, checking it twice :: Sacha Chua
I wanted the EmacsConf 2023 Youtube and Toobnix playlists to mostly reflect the schedule of the...
2023-12-11 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
[2023-12-11 Mon] Update: added OrgMeetup on Wed Dec 13 Help wanted: Please contribute to Tree-Sitter based...