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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,...

After our first informal field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario, I got my own 13" iPad Air so that I can play with digital painting beside A+. Using the same apps might make it easier for her to pick up ideas from me and for me to pick up ideas from her. We mostly draw in Procreate, and I'm starting to get...

2025-02-20-01 Productive procrastination -- productivity parenting.png Text from sketch Productive procrastination We are going to procrastinate. That's the way our brains like to work. No sense grumping about it, that'll just make it worse. We might as well get better at it This is a skill that takes practice, so try to learn when the stakes are low. Have a good idea of what...

I set up a BigBlueButton web conferencing server so that people can use it for Emacs meetups. To keep costs down, I want to resize it to 1 GB RAM 1 vCPU most of the time, and then resize it to 8 GB RAM 4 vCPU when there's a meetup. When it's at a proper size (4 CPUs), the Nginx web server should proxy...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630...

A+ asked me to take her on another informal field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario to check out that special exhibit on modern art that we didn't have the energy for last time. I decided that was worth taking her out during a school afternoon. I figured there'd be plenty of time to catch up with schoolwork over the long weekend, and...

Help wanted: Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github) Re: Status of xwidgets support Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000...

A+'s class is working through a variety of assignments while reading through The Wild Robot. They've done chapter 1-11 so far. One of the assignments is to visualize things from the book, like sketching 6 things Roz has seen in nature so far. I figured I'd practise drawing too. 2025-02-06-01 Beaver, goose, squirrel, sparrow, flower, sheepdog, sheep -- drawing.png References: blue flower by NiklasErnst...

I want to get better at helping A+ learn more about art, and I want to learn more about art myself. She'll learn whatever she's ready to learn, but maybe I can help her get past the initial frustrations by breaking it down into smaller skills. As for me, there's plenty I can learn about seeing, getting stuff to look like what I'm seeing,...

I joined @screwtape's Lispy Gopher Show at the last minute because he wanted to chat a little about community, his experiences starting a new blog, and my recent post Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people. Ramin Honary was also there, so the conversation also included Scheme, CL, Haskell, and other cool things. I shared the notes I was taking (yay screen...

Help wanted: F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package. Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto...

Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog How to Take Smart Notes Mathematica peer-to-peer education Emacs Calendar Emacs News EmacsConf Emacs.tv Writing helps you refine your thoughts Writing helps you find your tribe Text and links from sketch Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people. Henrik Karlsson's "Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog" nudged me...

A+ eight years old and she won't always want to play with me, so while I can, we play together. Lately, she's been interested in Minecraft parkour maps. I remember when parkour was too frustrating for us to do. In the beginning, I felt my stomach flip every time I fell. I kept having to tell myself that I wasn't the one actually falling....

While putting together some notes on how to use subed.el with auto-generated YouTube captions, I decided to get subed-word-data working with the Youtube VTT format. The sample file I downloaded from one of my YouTube videos had a cue whose text started with a blank line, so I ended up redoing the way subed-vtt.el parsed cues. Twice, actually. The first time, I changed it...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb...

Now that we've survived EmacsConf, I've been looking into running a BigBlueButton server so that various Emacs meetups can use it if they like instead of relying on Jitsi or other free video-conferencing services. (I spent some time looking into Galene, but I'm not quite sure that's ready for our uses yet, like this issue that LibrePlanet ran into with recording.) BigBlueButton requires a...

I want to be able to use voice control to do things on my phone while I'm busy washing dishes, putting things away, knitting, or just keeping my hands warm. It'll also be handy to have a way to get things out of my head when the kiddo is koala-ing me. I've been using my Google Pixel 8's voice interface to set timers, send...

preprocess image edit and link text Inkscape prompt for rectangles inline SVG write about sketch Build up, drill down handwritten.blog sketch viewer Text and links from sketch Hyperlinking SVGs - 2025-01-17-01 I like drawing my notes. I can jump around, draw connections, doodle for fun. A sketch can only fit so much, though. (even if I write really small) Idea: Links: They can be...

wearable computing life-logging an M1 display Emacspeak untangle my thoughts emacs.tv Quick audio/video notes adapting to age-related changes lapel mic WhisperX Org Mode SuperNote Smart glasses upgrade lapel mic add gamepad Smart glasses Text and links from sketch Revisiting wearable computing 2025-01-18-01 I experimented with wearable computing in 2002 because I wanted to explore life-logging and access to more info on the go. I...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 30 0130 Asia/Singapore Beginner: Programming in Emacs | Utah.edu Emacs configuration: I wrote a simple "profile" switcher/manager for emacs. - symlink script as an alternative to --init-directory Configuring emacs is...

SuperNote Verbal to Visual Clarity Canvas Weekly Andy Draws Drewscape Sketchplanations Build bigger thoughts Visual Frameworks my blog sketches.sachachua.com Make animations Code to work with sketches Text and links from sketch Organizing my sketches What I have now: SuperNote A5X: Monthly notebooks Long-term note with links Daily moments Crafts PDFs (esp. w/ large margins) Highlighted heading ☆ for needs more No antialiasing: … Preferences...