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Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/303579672/ Wed Oct 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Thu Oct 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Oct 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore...

2024-09-26-05 Tiny chunks #kaizen #productivity I want to get better at working in tiny chunks. Some of the things I find hard are: getting incomplete thoughts out of my head when the kiddo interrupts so that I don't get grumpy (because of the Ovsiankina effect) managing the stack of interrupting tasks and yak-shaving temptations still making time for larger projects or things with less-immediate...

I've been experimenting with the Supernote's Browse and Access feature because I want to be able to upload files quickly instead of waiting for Dropbox to synchronize. First, I want to store the IP address in a variable: my-supernote-ip-address(defvar my-supernote-ip-address "192.168.1.221") Here's how to upload: (defun my-supernote-upload (filename &optional supernote-path) (interactive "FFile: ") (setq supernote-path (or supernote-path "/INBOX")) (let* ((boundary (mml-compute-boundary '())) (url-request-method "POST")...

[2024-09-26 Thu]: Whoops, forgot to make sure ox-11ty is also covered. In my Org Mode HTML and Markdown exports, I usually want to include SVGs inline so that I can use links. Sometimes I also want to use Javascript and CSS to modify elements within the images. I used to use a my-include: link to do this, but I realized that I can also...

Figure 1: Diagram of different ways to get drawings off my Supernote A5X Text from sketch Supernote A5X Screen mirroring (pixelated) -> Puppeteer screenshot (or maybe .mjpeg?) Browse & Access (HTTP) -> latest file: recognize text, recolor, crop, upload? Dropbox/Google Drive (slow) -> batch process: recognize text, recolor, upload Bonus: Autocropping encourages me to just get stuff out there even if I haven't filled...

Emacs: Emacs community Looking at how the kiddo dives deeply into one interest and then moves on to another, and how she gets such satisfaction from sharing those interests with me, I think part of why #Emacs has been a long-lasting interest of mine is that it involves an endless space of novel possibilities that is entirely because of a wonderful community. keyboard shortcuts...

Figure 1: my drawing of a sungka board I've been really enjoying playing sungka with my eight-year-old daughter. We've been playing it for a number of years now. Usually she likes to start out with one shell in each cup and working our way up to seven shells in each cup over a series of rounds. Over the last week, she's gotten a lot...

Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Sep 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 26 0030 Asia/Singapore EmacsSF: Emacs Hangout: Potpourri (Hybrid) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/303385779/ Thu Sep 26 1800 America/Vancouver - 2000 America/Chicago - 2100 America/Toronto – Fri Sep 27 0100 Etc/GMT - 0300 Europe/Berlin - 0630 Asia/Kolkata -...

Figure 1: Screencast of modifying face properties Sometimes I just want to make some text look a little fancier in the buffer so that I can make a thumbnail or display a message. This my-add-face-text-property function lets me select a region and temporarily change its height, make it bold, or do other things. It will work in text-mode or enriched-mode buffers (not Org Mode...

I want to compile my global microblog posts into weekly posts so that they're archived on my blog. It might make sense to make them list items so that I can move them around easily. my-mastodon-insert-my-statuses-since(defun my-mastodon-insert-my-statuses-since (date) (interactive (list (org-read-date "Since date: "))) (insert (format "#+begin_toot_archive\n%s\n#+end_toot_archive\n" (mapconcat (lambda (o) (format "- %s\n #+begin_quote\n #+begin_export html\n%s\n #+end_export\n #+end_quote\n\n" (org-link-make-string (assoc-default 'url o) (assoc-default 'created_at...

I'm gradually shifting more things to this Lenovo P52 to take advantage of its newer processor, 64 GB of RAM, and 2 TB drive. (Whee!) One of the things I'm curious about is how I can make better use of multimedia. I couldn't get whisper.cpp to work on my Lenovo X230T, so I mostly relied on the automatic transcripts from Google Recorder (with timestamps...

I use global-hl-line-mode to highlight the current line. (global-hl-line-mode 1) However, I don't want hl-line to interfere with the default face suggested by customize-face, which is returned by face-at-point. (defun my-suggest-other-faces (func &rest args) (if global-hl-line-mode (progn (global-hl-line-mode -1) (prog1 (apply func args) (global-hl-line-mode 1))) (apply func args))) (advice-add #'face-at-point :around #'my-suggest-other-faces) Now I can use customize-face and describe-face without hl-line interfering all the...

One of the things I like about browsing Mastodon in Emacs using mastodon.el is that I can modify my workflow to make things easier. For example, I often come across links that I'd like to save for Emacs News. I want to boost the post and save it to an Org file, and I can do that with a single keystroke. It uses the...

Emacs 30: Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml) Why Emacs Is the Best: 10 Key Advantages – Tristan's Zettelkasten (@tristanC@functional.cafe) - includes notes on upgrading to Emacs 30 Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, September 28, 2024 M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700...

I like checking out the #emacs hashtag when I put together Emacs News. In the past, I usually browsed the hashtag timeline on emacs.ch, which also picked up updates from other people that emacs.ch was following. Now that I've moved to @sacha@social.sachachua.com and emacs.ch is winding down, I wanted to see if there was a way for me to see a combined view using...

tldr: I'm now at @sacha@social.sachachua.com . Since the emacs.ch Mastodon instance is winding down, I decided to follow @technomancy's recommendation of GoToSocial as a Mastodon-compatibly lightweight ActivityPub surver. I set it up as a Docker container because I still don't trust myself when it comes to security, and I put it behind an Nginx reverse proxy because I already have my web server on...

EmacsConf 2024 call for participation - submit by Sept 20, 2024 (coming soon!) Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Sep 11 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 12 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Sep 13 1800 Europe/Paris M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 18 0800 America/Vancouver...

Upcoming events: Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #12 2024 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/ae9730f1-bb73-4621-a4b1-f31ee395c8c9 Thu Sep 5 1900 CET M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto...

Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 29 0030 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Sep 3 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata -...

Upcoming events: M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug...

2024-08-10-03 Life as a 40-year-old #annual #review Text from sketch Cargo bike: I love the way the Load 75 makes it easy to go to playdates and on family adventures. A+ rides in it for quick trips or when she's tired of pedaling. I can tow her bike with the Bakkie bag. Glad to bike more. Since playdates are now 15 minutes away instead...

Help wanted: Continued need for people who can help take care of the MS Windows port Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://bbb.emacsverse.org/b/iho-h7r-qg8-led Wed Aug 14 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 15 0000 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500...

Help wanted: Request for an LLM package to describe images, which is good for accessibility emacs-devel needs help with MS Windows support also macOS (@christoph@muenster.im) Some discussion of the challenges with supporting Emacs on non-free operating systems Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/302002457/ Wed Aug 7 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 8 0130 Europe/Berlin -...

Help wanted: Re: MPS: Win64 testers? - MPS branch and UCRT-specific maintenance and in general, the MS Windows port for Emacs Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 31 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 1 0030 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 2 0800 America/Vancouver...