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A+ has started learning Rubik's cube algorithms for permutation of the last layer (PLL) algorithms for the Rubik's cube. To help her focus on just a few at a time instead of getting distracted by the long list in the Cubeskills PLL PDF, I made a page that listed the algorithms that she was working on so that I could export it with ox-hugo...

I open lots of pages in the process of making Emacs News. I like to open the pages in Mozilla Firefox, but I want the keyboard focus to stay with Emacs so that I can quickly categorize the links. I also sometimes want to scroll the page up or down. While reading the Reading, and not forgetting post, I came across Spookfox, which bridges...

Upcoming events: Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup 2023 #1 https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d8cc520f-e3ba-4408-8852-556e5270bc43 Mon Jan 30 1900 CET EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/290740845/ Wed Feb 1 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 2 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Feb 3 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT...

A+ occasionally likes to flip through pictures in a photo album. I want to print another batch of 4x6 photos, and I'd like to crop them before labeling them with the date from the EXIF info. Most of the pictures are from my phone, so I have a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 3:2 aspect ratio I want for prints. First step: figuring...

I sometimes want to put long source blocks in a <details><summary>...</summary>...</details> block when I export to HTML, so that they're tucked away in a collapsible block. I tried using https://github.com/alhassy/org-special-block-extras to define my own #+begin_my_details "summary text" ... #+end_my_details block, but source blocks inside my_details doesn't get fontlocked properly while in the Org file. I wanted to add a :summary attribute to the regular...

[2023-01-27 Fri] Prot just added a modus-themes-get-color-value function. Yay! Also, it turns out that I need to update the overlay in all the buffers. I'm experimenting with using the highlight-sexp minor mode to highlight my current s-expression, since I sometimes get confused about what I'm modifying with smartparens. The highlight-sexp background colour is hardcoded in the variable hl-sexp-background-color, and will probably look terrible if...

I've been thinking about what I can learn alongside A+ - something that will be slow to learn but that might be fun to get the hang of. I think it will help me practise patience and develop my empathy with her as she learns fine motor skills too. Maybe I'll even be able to model persistence and self-acceptance. At home, I practise steno...

[2023-01-23 Mon]: Added emacs.si meetup Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 25 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 26 0130 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jan 27 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jan...

Upcoming events: (could find another way to list the Mastering Emacs book club meetings; suggestions?) Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, January 28, 2023 M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Jan 18 0000 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book...

I noticed that author names in my mastodon.el timeline were no longer getting highlighted. Since it behaved correctly when I used emacs -Q, I knew the problem was somewhere in my configuration. Problem: my configuration is very long. (Uh, my .el seems to have grown to be about 460KB…) I started writing some code to help me bisect it, but fortunately I remembered using...

At some point during the conversion of my blog from Wordpress to 11ty, I wanted to change my sketch links to use a custom shortcode instead of referring to the sketch in my old wp-uploads directory. Because Wordpress changed the filenames a little, I used the ID at the start of the filename. I forgot that many of my filenames from 2013 to 2015...

Some days are slow. Some weeks, some months, some years… Parenting gives me a sneak peek at what life is like being slow, and that's handy. I've written about being slow before. Every time I revisit this topic, I learn a little bit more. I can start to figure out the systems and perspectives that might help me as I grow older. 2013: Growing...

Emacs 29: Feature freeze on the emacs-29 release branch (Reddit, Irreal) Upcoming events: Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Jan 13 1800 Europe/Paris Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Jan 13 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Jan 14 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Jan 14 0200...

Both Google Cloud Vision and SuperNote's new handwriting recognition handle my print fine. Neither handle columns the way I'd like, but to be fair, I'm not really sure how I want columns and wrapping handled anyway. I can always experiment with the standard use-case: one column of text, to export as text (with perhaps the occasional sketch, which I can crop and include). If...

I'd like to refer to snippets of code, but lines are too fragile to use as references for code and posts that I want to easily update. I'd like to specify a from-regexp and a to-regexp instead in order to collect the lines between those regexps (including the ones with the regexps themselves). org-export-expand-include-keyword looked a bit hairy to extend since it uses regular...

I'd like to write about code more often. It's easier for people to try out ideas if they can copy the code without fiddling with selecting the text, especially on mobile browsers, so "Copy code" buttons on source code blocks would be nice. I used this tutorial for adding code buttons as a basis for the following CSS and JS code. First, let's add...

Figure 1: Sketch heatmap from 2008-2023 Building on Display a calendar heat map using Emacs Lisp, I figured out how to use calendar-date-echo-text to store the date so that I can pick it up when plotting the heatmap: ;; This seems to be the only way we can hack the date in for now (setq calendar-date-echo-text '(apply #'format (list "%04d-%02d-%02d" year month day))) (defun...

I was curious about how to quickly visualize my date-related data in Emacs, such as when I sketched my thoughts or which days had journal entries or how often A- had tantrums. (It's hard to be 6 years old.) I wrote this code based on nrougier's code for colouring calendar days using advice around calendar-generate-entries: (defface calendar-scale-1 '((((background light)) :foreground "black" :background "#eceff1") (((background...

I want to make it easier to process the sketchnotes I make on my Supernote. I write IDs of the form yyyy-mm-dd-nn to identify my sketches. To avoid duplicates, I get these IDs from the web-based journaling system I wrote. I've started putting the titles and tags into those journal entries as well so that I can reuse them in scripts. When I export...

[2023-01-04 Wed] Added a screenshot showing annotation. I was thinking about how to prepare for my next 10-year review, since I'll turn 40 this year. I've been writing yearly reviews with some regularity and monthly reviews sporadically, and I figured it would be nice to have those posts in an EPUB so that I can read them on my e-reader and annotate them as...

[2023-01-03 Tue] Updated shell script to use EPUB for more formats A- wants me to sit with her at bedtime. She also wants to read a stack of books until she gets sleepy. This means I sometimes have an hour (or even two) of sitting quietly with her which I can use for writing, drawing, reading, or knitting, as long as I'm quiet. ("Mama,...

I'd like to write more blog posts about little Emacs hacks, and I'd like to do it with less effort. Including source code is handy even when it's missing some context from other functions defined in the same file, since sometimes people pick up ideas and having the source code right there means less flipping between links. When I'm working inside my config file...

In previous years, organizers streamed the video feeds for EmacsConf from their own computers to the Icecast server, which was a little challenging because of CPU load. A server shared by a volunteer had a 6-core Intel Xeon E5-2420 with 48 GB of RAM, which turned out to be enough horsepower to run OBS for both the general and development track for EmacsConf 2022....

Help wanted: Philip K.: Taking a Break from Emacs Development - packages looking for maintainers Help with Android port? (+ gnulib question) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Jan 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Jan 4 0000 Asia/Singapore EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/290200609/ Wed Jan...

Emacs 29: A few new things in Emacs 29 (Reddit, HN) Irreal: Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29 Upcoming events: Mastering Emacs Book Club (Reddit) Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 29 0130 Asia/Singapore M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/...

I don't like shopping. We're lucky to be able to choose, but I get overwhelmed with all the choices. I'm trying to get the hang of it, though, since I'll need to shop for lots of things for A- over the years. One of the things that's stressful is comparing choices between different webpages, especially if I want to get A-'s opinion on something....

A- is really into Santa and Christmas because of the books she's read. Last year, she wanted to set up the GoPro to capture footage during Christmas Eve. I helped her set it up for a timelapse video. After she went to bed, we gradually positioned the presents. I extracted the frames from the video, removed the ones that caught us moving around, and...

The Q&A session for Things I'd like to see in Emacs (Richard Stallman) from EmacsConf 2022 was done over Mumble. Amin pasted the questions into the Mumble chat buffer and I copied them into a larger buffer as the speaker answered them, but I didn't do it consistently. I figured it might be worth making another video with easier-to-read visuals. At first, I thought...

Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Dec 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Dec 21 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Dec 24 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Emacs...

Upcoming events: Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, December 24, 2022 Hispa Emacs (virtual) https://hispa-emacs.org/ Wed Dec 14 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 15 0000 Asia/Singapore EmacsSF (in person): Ho ho ho it's coffee.el https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/290226928/ Sat Dec 17 1100 America/Los_Angeles M-x Research (contact them for password):...

Update: Fix time for Emacs Paris Emacs 29: Release branch emacs-29 The emacs-29 release branch was just cut by the amazing Eli Zaretskii! (Reddit) Trying Out Emacs 29, Part 2 - System Crafters Live! (23:47) Trying New Emacs 29 Features - System Crafters Live! (01:35:44) Emacs 29 is nigh! What can we expect? (HN, Reddit, lobste.rs) Irreal: Emacs-29 Release Branch and Org Mode 9.6...

EmacsConf is this weekend Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 30 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu Dec 1 0130 Singapore Emacs users group Slovenia https://emacs.si/ Thu Dec 1 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin – Fri Dec 2...

Update 2022-11-21: added new packages Upcoming events: Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Nov 26 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Nov 30 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata – Thu...

If you get mastodon-auth--handle-token-response: Mastodon-auth--access-token: invalid_grant: The provided authorization grant is invalid, expired, revoked, does not match the redirection URI used in the authorization request, or was issued to another client. while trying to set up mastodon.el from MELPA, you might have an outdated version. Try the following steps: M-x package-delete mastodon Restart Emacs M-x package-refresh-contents M-x package-install mastodon If that doesn't work, try...

At my most recent eye exam, the optometrist recommended that I use a warm compress and massage my eyes afterwards to help with dry eyes, so I ordered a USB-powered eye mask. I like how I don't have to fuss around with figuring out the temperature and duration, especially now that things are colder. It's just there by my bed. It turns on. It...

I wanted to convert our VTT files to TTML files so that we might be able to use them for training lachesis for transcript segmentation. I downloaded the VTT files from EmacsConf 2021 to a directory and copied the edited captions from the EmacsConf 2022 backstage area (using head -1 ${FILE} | grep -q "captioned" to distinguish them from the automatic ones). I installed...

I wanted to e-mail all the EmacsConf speakers who had already uploaded their videos, and I wanted to keep track of the fact that I'd mailed them by adding a note to the :LOGBOOK: drawer in their talk heading. That way, organizers can just look at the logbook to see if we've mailed someone instead of digging through our mailboxes. org-store-log-note assumes that it's...

Help wanted: org-vcard: seeking new maintainer Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs) Prot is asking for help to move countries Upcoming events: CANCELLED Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, November 26, 2022 M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Nov 15 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata...

Now that the kiddo's reasonably well-settled into virtual school and EmacsConf is chugging along nicely, I finally have a little time to explore Mastodon, a federated social network that quite a lot of people have been shifting to (and quite a lot of people have been on all along). When @louis@emacs.ch e-mailed me about including the new emacs.ch Mastodon instance in Emacs News, I...

Help wanted: [HELP] Clearing bug reports before the upcoming Org release Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs) Prot is asking for help to move countries Upcoming events: EmacsConf 2022 (Dec 3 & 4) - Schedule (Irreal) Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Nov 11 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1700 GMT / 1800 Berlin / 2230 Kolkata –...

Emacs User Survey (emacs-devel, Reddit, HN, lobste.rs) Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Nov 1 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2130 Kolkata – Wed Nov 2 0000 Singapore EmacsATX: Mastering Emacs | Crafted Emacs https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/289100501/ Wed Nov 2 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT...

2022-10-26: Merged word-level timing support into subed.el, so I don't need my old caption functions. 2022-04-18: Switched to using yt-dlp. I like to split captions at logical points, such as at the end of a phrase or sentence. At first, I used subed.el to play the video for the caption, pausing it at the appropriate point and then calling subed-split-subtitle to split at the...

I figured out how to align the subtitles to get word-level timestamps and generate SRV2 files, so now I'm working on improving the support in subed.el so that it can work with those timestamps. The subed-word-data-load-from-file function in subed-word-data.el should load the word data from the SRV2 file and attempt to match it up with the text, colouring words if they were successfully matched....

There were a lot of great submissions for EmacsConf 2022. The only way we were going to get all of them into EmacsConf was to split it into two full tracks, which we've never done before. We hadn't planned on changing much about EmacsConf this year, but fortunately the other organizers let me talk them into going for two tracks. I've been spending the...

Emacs User Survey (Reddit, emacs-devel) - LibreJS-compatible this year Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Oct 26 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Oct 27 0030 Singapore M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Nov 1 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600...

Upcoming events: M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Oct 18 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Oct 22 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore Emacs Berlin...

Help wanted: Call for volunteers: add tree-sitter support to major modes (Reddit) Upcoming events: live: Building minimal Emacs config. - Oct 11 at 12PM EDT (5 PM UTC) Emacs APAC: Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 22, 2022 Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 14 0900 Vancouver / 1100 Chicago / 1200 Toronto / 1600 GMT / 1800 Berlin /...