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I have a tiny corporation for my consulting. I do all of my own paperwork. I have lots of notes in Org Mode for infrequent tasks like the tax-related paperwork I do once a year. My notes include checklists, links, and Org Babel blocks for calculations. I often need to copy standard text (ex: the name of the company) or parts of the output...

Upcoming events: OrgMeetup (virtual) https://emacs.ch/@yantar92/111754123619904846 Wed Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 18 0000 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 17 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 18 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs users group...

Inspired by the styling on Susam's blog feed, I followed this tutorial on using XML stylesheets and added XSL stylesheets for my RSS and Atom feeds. I have RSS and Atom feeds for all my posts as well as for each category or tag (ex: emacs). Figure 1: RSS feed after styling To make that happen, I added a line like this to my...

Watch on YouTube For this livestream, I experimented with scheduling it for 8:00 AM EST instead of just starting it whenever I could squeeze in the time.1 People dropped by! And asked questions! And suggested interesting things! Wow. This could be fun. I wrote a bunch of blog posts throughout the week and added lots of little videos to them. It was easy to...

Getting the sketches: PDFs are not all the same Animation style 1: displaying paths in order Identifying paths from Supernote sketches Sorting and animating the paths by IDs Animation style 2: Building up a map with temporary highlights Ideas for next steps tldr (2167 words): I can make animating presentation maps easier by writing my own functions for the Emacs text editor. In this...

John Kitchin includes little QR codes in his videos. I thought that was a neat touch that makes it easier for people to jump to a link while they're watching. I'd like to make it easier to show QR codes too. The following code lets me show a QR code for the Org link at point. Since many of my links use custom Org...

Help wanted: Looking for Emacs users in Pennsylvania to start a meetup (@jameshowell@emacs.ch) ada-mode: Looking for someone to take over maintenance (emacs-devel) making play-sound async Upcoming events: M-x Research: 9th talk on (e)lisp https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 10 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 11 0000 Asia/Singapore Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in...

I'd like to get better at writing notes while coding and at turning those notes into blog posts and videos. I want to be able to link to files in projects easily with the ability to complete, follow, and export links. For example, [[subed:subed.el]] should become subed.el, which opens the file if I'm in Emacs and exports a link if I'm publishing a post....

It's nice to feel like you're saying someone's name correctly. We ask EmacsConf speakers to introduce themselves in the first few seconds of their video, but people often forget to do that, so that's okay. We started recording introductions for EmacsConf 2022 so that stream hosts don't have to worry about figuring out pronunciation while they're live. Here's how I used subed-record to turn...

[2024-01-05 Fri]: Updated scripts 2024-01-03-03 Quick thoughts on livestreaming #sharing #video #streaming #community.png Text from the sketch Quick thoughts on livestreaming Why: work out loud share tips share more spark conversations (also get questions about things) Doable with ffmpeg on my X230T: streaming from my laptop lapel mic + system audio, second screen for monitoring Ideas for next time: Overall notes in Emacs with...

Partly inspired by John Kitchin's video showing how to copy screenshots from his iPad and do optical character recognition so he can use the images and text in Org Mode, I'd like to be able to draw quick notes while I'm thinking through a topic on my computer. Krita might work, but it's awkward to draw on my tablet PC's screen when it's in...

I want to get better at looking in my Org files for something that I don't exactly remember. I might remember a few words from it but not in order, or I might remember some words from the body, or I might need to fiddle with the keywords until I find it. I usually use C-u C-c C-w (org-refile with a prefix argument), counting...

I wanted to experiment with for colouring the mode line of the active window ever so slightly different to make it easier to see where the active window is. I usually have global-hl-line-mode turned on, so that highlight is another indicator, but let's see how this tweak feels. I modified the code so that it uses the theme colours from the currently-selected Modus themes,...

[2024-01-01 Mon] move https://git.mitchmarq42.xyz/mitch/vimcolors to the Appearance category Upcoming events: EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/297487956/ Wed Jan 3 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto – Thu Jan 4 0030 Etc/GMT - 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0600 Asia/Kolkata - 0830 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Thu Jan 4 1730 Europe/Paris M-x Research: 9th talk on (e)lisp https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Jan 10...

2023-12-30-01 Daily moments #drawing Text from sketch Inspired by Arne Bab (who mentioned being inspired by my sketches) I've been drawing daily moments since 2023-03-20. Nothing fancy, just a quick reminder of our day. I draw while the kiddo watches a bedtime video. Sometimes she suggests a moment to draw, or flips through the pages and laughs at the memories. I also have my...

2023-12-25-07 Flow of ideas #writing #metaphor Text from sketch 2023-12-25-07 Flow of ideas What can I learn from thinking about the flow rate? input > output, and that's okay Parts: idea: agenda/review? capture: refile to tags toot: use this more, get stuff out braindump: use transcripts or outline sketch: bedtime post: cut off earlier, can follow up video: workflow tweaks Thoughts: more input is...

Finding enough quiet focused time to record audio is a challenge. I often have to re-record segments in order to correct brain hiccups or to restart after interruptions. It's also hard for me to sit still and listen to my recordings looking for mistakes to edit out. I'm not familiar enough with Audacity to zip around with keyboard shortcuts, and I don't like listening...

I have lots of different things in my Org Mode inbox. Following the PARA method, I want to file them under projects, areas, resources, or archive so that I can find related things later. Actually, no, I don't want to refile them. I do want to be able to: find all the pieces related to something when I'm ready to start working on a...

I wanted to get the Q&A sessions up quickly after the conference, so I uploaded them to YouTube and added them to the EmacsConf 2023 playlist. I used YouTube's video editor to roughly guess where to trim them based on the waveforms. I needed to actually trim the source videos, though, so that our copies would be up to date and I could use...

A few people have generously donated money to EmacsConf, so now we're thinking of how to use that money effectively to scale EmacsConf up or help people be happier. One of the things I'd like to improve is our BigBlueButton web conferencing setup, since fiddling with the screen layout was a little annoying this year. We're using BigBlueButton 2.2, which was released in 2020....

I want to see if we can caption EmacsConf live presentations and Q&A sessions, even if the automated captions need help with misrecognized words. Now that I can get live speech into Emacs using the Deepgram streaming API, I can process that information and send it to other places. Here's a quick demonstration of appending live speech captions to Etherpad: Download the video I...

Upcoming events: Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Dec 27 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Dec 28 0130 Asia/Singapore Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Dec 29 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 2000 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Dec 30 0130 Asia/Kolkata - 0400...

2023-12-15-01 Audio braindump workflow tweaks #emacs #orgmode #subed.png Audio recording is handy for capturing thoughts as I wait, walk around, or do chores. But my wireless earbuds don't have a good mic, I rarely got back to reviewing the wall of text, and I don't trust speech recognition to catch all my words. Here's a new brain-dumping workflow that I've been experimenting with, though....

I received a Google Open Source Peer Bonus for my contributions to GNU Emacs, which was a pleasant surprise. Thanks! I'm thinking of ways to reinvest the ~USD 250 award into Emacs and the community to see what a little money earmarked for that could do. People have already donated enough to EmacsConf to cover hosting costs, so that's all sorted out. People have...