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2025-03-26-01 Feline feelings -- drawing emotions Feel free to use this under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Text from sketch Feline feelings sachachua.com/2025-03-26-01 happy playful content interested proud accepted powerful peaceful trusting optimistic surprised startled confused amazed excited bad tired busy stressed bored fearful scared anxious weak rejected insecure threatened angry let down humiliated bitter mad aggressive frustrated distant critical disgusted disapproving disappointed awful...

Sometimes I want to copy a toot and include it in my Org Mode notes, like when I post a thought and then want to flesh it out into a blog post. This code defines my-mastodon-org-copy-toot-content, which converts the toot text to Org Mode format using Pandoc and puts it in the kill ring so I can yank it somewhere else. (defun my-mastodon-toot-at-url (&optional...

I sometimes want to thank a bunch of people for contributing to a Mastodon conversation. The following code lets me collect handles in a single kill ring entry by calling it with my point over a handle or a toot, or with an active region. (defvar my-mastodon-handle "@sacha@social.sachachua.com") (defun my-mastodon-copy-handle (&optional start-new beg end) "Append Mastodon handles to the kill ring. Use the handle...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 26 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 27 0130 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 1 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin -...

I often want to copy the toot URL after posting a new toot about a blog post so that I can update the blog post with it. Since I post from Emacs using mastodon.el, I can probably figure out how to get the URL after tooting. A quick-and-dirty way is to retrieve the latest status. (defvar my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook nil "Called with the item.") (defun my-mastodon-copy-toot-url...

Nudged by org-daily-reflection (@emacsomancer's toot) and Jeremy Keith's post where he mentions his on this day page, I finally got around to making my own on this day page again. I use the 11ty static site generator, so it's static unless you have Javascript enabled. It might be good for bumping into things. I used to have an "On this day" widget back when...

2025-03-22-02 Stick figure out feelings -- drawing emotions.svg Feel free to use or remix these stick figures under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Text and links from sketch Stick figure out feelings https://sachachua.com/2025-03-22-02 Feelings wheel by Geoffrey Roberts, stick figures by Sacha Chua and the kiddo happy playful content interested proud accepted powerful peaceful trusting optimistic surprised startled confused amazed excited bad tired busy...

Some walking, some writing, some Emacs tweaking. A+ and I went to a pottery wheel workshop. That was nice. My eyes have been dry lately, so I've been using eye drops. Blog posts Visual book notes: ADHD is Awesome - Penn and Kim Holderness (2024) (toot) Old-school blogger (toot) Playing with chunk size when writing (toot) Reading more blogs; Emacs Lisp: Listing blogs based...

2025-03-20-01 ADHD is Awesome #visual-book-notes #adhd (Feel free to use or share this under the Creative Commons Attribution license!) Text and links from sketch ADHD is Awesome - Penn and Kim Holderness (2024) sachachua.com/2025-03-20-01 Notes: Ch 1: ADHD 101 Ch 2: Diagnosis Ch 3: Inside the ADHD brain all-in or completely off dopamine Great at paying attention, terrible at choosing what pay attention to...

2025-03-16-01 Old-school blogger -- blogging writing Text from sketch Old-school blogger [timeline showing different strands braided together] I started blogging in 2001 (really, more like 2002), as a university student who had started playing around enjoyed learning out loud. Both blogging and Emacs continued through: teaching computer science going on a technical internship in Japan taking up graduate studies working at IBM experimenting with...

How long is a blog post? Some people write short posts with one clear thought. Others write longer essays. I tend to start out writing a short post and then get distracted by all the rabbit-holes I want to go down. Drafting my thoughts on blogging leads to adding lots of blogs to my reader, writing some code that takes an OPML and makes...

Nudged by Dave Winer's post about old-school bloggers and my now-nicely-synchronizing setup of NetNewsWire (iOS) and FreshRSS (web), I gave Claude AI this prompt to list bloggers (with the addition of "Please include URLs and short bios.") and had fun going through the list it produced. A number of people were no longer blogging (unreachable sites or inactive blogs), but I found a few...

I usually summarize Mastodon links, move them to my Emacs News Org file, and then categorize them. Today I accidentically categorized the links while they were still in my Mastodon buffer, so I had two lists with categories. I wanted to write some Emacs Lisp to merge sublists based on the top-level items. I could sort the list alphabetically with C-c ^ (org-sort) and...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630...

Pedro pointed out that I had some incomplete clock entries in my Emacs configuration. org-resolve-clocks prompts you for what to do with each open clock entry in your Org agenda files and whatever Org Mode files you have open. If you don't feel like cancelling each clock with C, I also wrote this function to delete all open clocks in the current file. (defun...

Emacs 30: How to Get Started with Emacs 30.1 on Linux (@derdreschi85@mastodon.social) GNU Emacs 30.1 läuft auf Android (@hgdrn@nrw.social) Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/333236a9-d51f-4646-9630-4d42a820f1f0 Tue Mar 11 1900 CET Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 14 1800 Europe/Paris M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200...

Sometimes I want to get the URL from a string whether the string contains a bare URL (https://example.com) or an Org bracketed link ([[https://example.com]] or [[https://example.com][Example]], ignoring any extra non-link text (blah https://example.com blah blah). org-link-any-re seemed like the right regular expression to use, but I started to get a little dizzy looking at all the parenthesis and I couldn't figure out which matching...

Conscientiousness and me Noticing when my brain likes to do the work Supporting my brain Not far from the tree Growing Learning on my own and with others Over the past few days, I've been reflecting on the personality trait of conscientiousness, which is something that can be a bit of a struggle for me. From Wikipedia: Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being...

Emacs 30: Emacs 30 Now On Android (12:19) GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default (Reddit) Irreal: Emacs 30.1 Update Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA...

2025-02-28-04 February 2025 -- monthly review Checking in with myself Where did I feel most energized this month? What activities drained me? What moments made me say "aha!" this month? Emoji summary Blog posts Sketches Text and links from sketch (, and) a list of emojis per day February 2025 field trips birthday music and art By day: 👀 looking ahead 💃 dance ✅...

I've had this iPad Air 13" for about two weeks now, and I'm slowly settling into how the different pieces of tech can work together and how things can flow. 2025-02-28-01 Getting used to SuperNote A5X and iPad Air 13 -- drawing supernote ipad tech Text from sketch Getting used to SuperNote A5X + iPad Air 13" SuperNote A5X: I prefer it for writing,...

A+ likes prompting Claude AI to generate funny kid-focused Star Wars fanfic mostly exploring how various characters might babysit Luke, Leia, and Grogu in a universe where Anakin did not fall to the Dark Side. This seems to be working out well. It encourages her to improvise stories even when we're off-screen, and it lets her play with small variations on ideas and quickly...

Adding anchors to paragraphs Anchor links Text fragments I write my blog posts in Org Mode and export them to Eleventy with ox-11ty, which is derived from the ox-html backend. Sometimes I want to link to something in a different blog post. This lets me build on thoughts that are part of a post instead of being a whole post on their own. If...

Emacs 30: Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml) Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml) What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN) J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1 released including which-key Tim Heaney: Emacs 30 What's New in Emacs? (Feb 2025) - System Crafters Live! (01:47:02) Rahul Juliato: Compiling Emacs 30.1 from the source on Debian Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid,...