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[2024-11-21 Thu]: Fixed the second filler words regexp, and make it work at the start of lines too. Thanks to @arialdo@mastodon.online for the feedback! Like many people, I tend to use "So", "And", "You know", and "Uh" to bridge between sentences when thinking. WhisperX does a reasonable job of detecting sentences and splitting them up anyway, but it leaves those filler words in at...

Reflection on writing style - 2024-11-18T00:44:18.080Z I notice that I have a lot more fun writing tiny workflow tweaks (mostly #Emacs ) and sharing them on my blog versus, say, insightful reflections developed over a longer period of time. I think it's the payoff of being able to enjoy those tweaks. Sometimes abstract thoughts help me come to realizations that I can then try...

I get word timestamps for free when I transcribe with WhisperX, so I can skip the Aeneas alignment step. That means I can update my previous code for handling audio braindumps . Breaking the transcript up into sections Also, I recently updated subed-word-data to colour words based on their transcription score, which draws my attention to things that might be uncertain. Here's what it...

Figure 1: Blog statistics I was curious about the shape of my blog over the years, excluding Emacs News and my link-heavy weekly/monthly reviews. It started off with lots of little posts like the way other weblogs were also quick links and notes. As weblogs morphed into blogs with more text, I also settled down into fewer, longer posts with lots of code (analyzed...

Emacs 30: What are your favorite changes in emacs 30? Upcoming events: M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 21 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin -...

Apparently, HTML has a mark element that is useful for highlighting. ox-html.el in Org Mode doesn't seem to export that yet. I don't use _ to underline things because I don't want that confused with links. Maybe I can override org-html-text-markup-alist to use it for my own purposes… (with-eval-after-load 'org (setf (alist-get 'underline org-html-text-markup-alist) "<mark>%s</mark>")) Okay, let's try it with: Let's see _how that...

Sometimes automatic subtitle timing tools like Aeneas can get confused by silences, extraneous sounds, filler words, mis-starts, and text that I've edited out of the raw captions for easier readability. It's good to quickly check each caption. I used to listen to captions at 1.5x speed, watching carefully as each caption displayed. This took a fair bit of time and focus, so… it usually...

Video not supported. Thumbnail:Download the video When I work with video captions, I often want to split long captions using subed-split-subtitle. If my player is somewhere in the current subtitle, it'll use that timestamp. If not, it'll make a reasonable guess based on character position. I can use subed-word-data.el to load word-level times from WhisperX JSON or from Youtube SRV2 files. This allows me...

I used to write weekly reviews. Nudged by Doing weeknotes, I want to get back to doing them. I'm still figuring out how I'd like to put these notes together as part of a weekly review process picking up some stuff from my blog posts, toots, Org inbox, and journal entries. That way, I can revisit fleeting notes and flesh them out a little...

2024-11-11-07 Tiny Habits: The Small Changes that Change Everything - BJ Fogg, PhD - 2020 #visual-book-notes #book #habits #productivity Text from sketch Tiny Habits - BJ Fogg, PhD (2020) - Notes by Sacha Chua 2024-11-11-07 Help people do what they already want to do Help people feel successful. Motivation + Ability + Prompt = Behavior Motivation: Motivation-ability curve: gets done, doesn't get done, start...

Upcoming events: EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/304301988/ Sat Nov 16 1100 America/Los_Angeles M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Nov 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Nov 21 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 23 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930...

We like to use pre-recorded videos at EmacsConf to minimize technical risks. This also means we can caption them beforehand, stream them with open captions, and publish them as soon as the talk goes live. Here's the process: Speakers upload their videos in whatever format they like. We use PsiTransfer to accept the uploaded files. We rename the files to have the talk title...

The Supernote A5X is an e-ink notebook that lets me draw in black, white, and two shades of gray. It has a drawing app that supports other shades of gray, but the main notebook app and the PDF annotation is limited to those two shades of gray. I like to use a dotted grid in order to write in neat lines. I used to...

I want to write more, and I want to enjoy going through my archive. Some posts are long, especially those that come from transcripts. If I sat with the ideas for longer, I might be able to make them more concise or break them up into more atomic notes; but I also want to get things out faster in order to learn from potential...

Adam Porter (alphapapa) reached out to John Wiegley (johnw) to ask about his current Org Mode workflow. John figured he'd experiment with a braindumping/brainstorming conversation about Org Mode in the hopes of getting more thoughts out of his head and into articles or blog posts. Instead of waiting until someone finally gets the time to polish it into something beautifully concise and insightful, they...

Nudged by Thierry Stoehr's toot about my 23rd blogiversary, I've been thinking about how much I've learned thanks to blogging, and how I can get even better at learning out loud. I'm curious about what this could become over the next twenty years, when I'm in my sixties. 2024-11-04-04 How do I want to get better at learning out loud? #kaizen #blogging #learning The...

embark-org-insert-link-to - 2024-11-02T15:49:09.420Z Ooh, it looks like `consult-org-heading` already lets me use embark-act with the shortcut `j` to call `embark-org-insert-link-to`. It doesn't feel like a "j" shortcut, though, so I'll just bind it to `L` for "link" instead: `(keymap-set embark-org-heading-map "L" #'embark-org-insert-link-to)` EmacsConf progress: intros - 2024-11-01T18:32:21.973Z #emacsconf progress: I've recorded intros for all the talks so that speakers can review them, and some...

I wanted to be able to change the colours used in a sketch, all from Emacs. For this, I can reuse my Python script for analyzing colours and changing them and just add some Emacs Lisp to pick colours from Emacs. Figure 1: Selecting the colour to replace Figure 2: Selecting the new colour (defvar my-recolor-command "/home/sacha/bin/recolor.py") (defun my-image-colors-by-frequency (file) "Return the colors in...

Summary: Life with a cargo bike has been working out really well for our family. I used to walk for an hour to get to some of A+'s playdates, pushing her in the Thule bike trailer / stroller that she still fit into. I liked bringing popsicles during the summer so that A+ could share them with her friends, so I often balanced a...

Emacs 30 and Emacs 31: Emacs 30.0 pretest packages for Fedora (Reddit) Build Emacs 31 for Windows · GitHub (@ldbeth@mastodon.sdf.org) Upcoming events: 200ok: EmacsConf 2024: Join Us in Lucerne for a Celebration of Free Software! Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Nov 5 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata...

The Toronto Public Library (and many other libraries) offers e-book access through Overdrive, which I can read through the Libby app on my phone. It turns out that I can select passages to highlight. It also turns out that I can use the Reading Journey view to export the highlights as JSON, even for books I've returned. This is what the JSON looks like....

I sometimes want the inverse of org-refile when I create a subtree and think of things that should probably go into it. This function prompts for a heading that matches org-refile-targets and then moves it to the current location. (defun my-org-refile-to-point (refloc) "Prompt for a heading and refile it to point." (interactive (list (org-refile-get-location "Heading: "))) (let* ((file (nth 1 refloc)) (pos (nth 3...

Embracing the shallows: Now a blog post: Embracing the shallows Thinking about testing my VPS backup - 2024-10-28T19:51:18.735Z I want to test backups of my virtual private server by setting them up in some kind of environment on my laptop. Some of the things on my server are in Docker containers, so I might need to either figure out Docker in Docker or use...

[2024-10-30 Wed]: Added more notes from my experiment with semi-retirement. I'm sitting in the same room as A+ as she attends virtual grade 3. She uses the computer speakers instead of her headphones. I feel there's a part of my mind that I can't access with stuff going on in the background, but I don't mind so much. Listening in is a good way...