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Upcoming events: Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si 2023 #2 online meetup https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/137e242d-5abb-4ba2-bf1d-143119f6baf4 Mon Feb 6 2000 CET M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Tue Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Wed Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 10 1800 Europe/Paris Mastering Emacs book...

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....