al3x

al3x, 3 days ago to random

I can’t remember what episodes of Station Elevenc @hotdogsladies said are special. I think he said 7 is the best. And you need to get by the 4? to like the show.

masukomi, 9 days ago to emacs

#Emacs geeks

Do any of you know of a package that lets me use slack / mastodon style emoji insertion?

Between Mastodon & Rocket (awesome macOS app) I keep starting to type : foo : instead of going to M-x insert-char

Obviously we can't just use : foo : because programming languages use colons all the time, but surely there's something similar we can do like !: foo :! or whatever.

🤔 I can't remember a language that combines colons and bangs.

al3x, 12 days ago to emacs

I took a similar approach for automatically clock in in #Emacs #OrgMode https://alpo.gitlab.io/jots/posts/2024/04/automatic-clock-in-in-org-mode/

From: @jason
https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112490811966870365

al3x, 12 days ago to emacs

Question for #Emacs users & experts:

I have tried to use replace-regexp to replace ) at the end of
a set of lines with B).

For the matcher I entered: )$.
For the replacement I entered B)

And it did not work. Why?

(I tried the second time entering B) as a replacement and it worked though)

al3x, 13 days ago to random

I use a Google Workspace (something) with my domain and Google Photos.

Google is changing something about the paid storage. That has impact on Google Photos.

Documentation on how to get more space is absolutely impossible to read. I'm really concerned that this means I will lose all the photos stored in Google Photos.

al3x, 21 days ago to vim

Productivity increases with the level of customization you are making in the tools you are using most often.

The downside is that the more used to these customizations you get, the more lost you'll feel when
using a system that is not configured as yours.

Simple example: create a new binding in #Vim or #Emacs. This is not only very common but
also very encouraged. After getting used to that, connect to a remote server.

mathowie, 23 days ago to random

In March of 1997 WIRED Magazine published their cover story on how browsers might soon disappear as everyone would prefer stuff pushed to them instead of discovered via following links.

It was widely panned and browsers are still very much alive today but I have to say when I look at Instagram and TikTok, those are all-Push content apps and maybe WIRED got it a little bit correct?

al3x, 24 days ago to random

I am a bit confused by the advice on training I'm reading about.
On one side, there are studies saying to avoid training to failure. (this applies to non-hypertrophy training).
On the other hand, others say that endurance training requires sets to failure.

al3x, 25 days ago to random

I read a post like this https://spyglass.org/wrongly-banned-by-instagram/
as a clear warning sign to avoid putting anything valuable inside
walled gardens.

Then I take a step back and realize, pretty much everything is inside
walled gardens: Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft.

Any of these companies can simply "erase" us.

al3x, 26 days ago to emacs

What am I doing wrong in my attempt to configure the #Emacs font?

I have the following lines in my init.el:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Input Mono Compressed" :height 150)  
(set-frame-font "Input Mono Compressed-15" nil t)  

If I execute them, I get what I want.
But when part of the init.el they seem to get reset.
If I include them towards the top of the init.el,
I can notice the larger font and then it "disappears".

Please send #Emacs doctors :-D.

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

In other news, #Emacs Newsticker seems to forget the status of some of the feeds between restarts.

It might not be its issue. I haven't seen this with RSS reader apps though.

After two days of excitement, I'm entering the trough of disappointment with RSS in #Emacs.

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

What am I doing wrong in this #Emacs snippet:

(add-hook 'newsticker-mode-hook (lambda ()  
 (setq browse-url-browser-function 'eww-browse-url)))  

I am trying to make newsticker use eww instead of an external browser
for opening links.

Thank you!

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

After only one day of fun, this elfeed issues makes it completely
unusable for me https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/issues/509

Basically the #Emacs elfeed db gets corrupted after every usage.

How unfortunate as I really liked it.

al3x, 1 month ago to macos

Does anyone know what happened with the Space Gremlin app? https://www.spacegremlinapp.com

I can’t find it in the Mac App Store. And I don’t seem to see it in the list of apps I bought either even if I do have the email.

#macOS

jschauma, 1 month ago to markdown

#markdown

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

I can’t believe it🤪: TIL #Emacs has support for tabs.

(In #Emacs and #Vim, with their support for windows, I use tabs as workspaces: setting up windows in a particular layout fitting the needs of that project)

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

Thanks to the help received from friends on here: “Automatic clock-in in Org Mode” https://alpo.gitlab.io/jots/posts/2024/04/automatic-clock-in-in-org-mode/

#Emacs #OrgMode

al3x, 1 month ago to random

I am fascinated by John Siracusa’s @siracusa window management.

I have listened to the original episode a few times over the time.
The image I created in my mind had nothing to do with what he’s showing in the “ATP Insider: John’s Windows” <https://atp.fm/atp-insider-johns-windows>.

Next question that bugs me now: how much of that applies (or could be applied) when using a laptop or normal monitor?

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

Who has a good setup for quelpa with use-package for #Emacs?

I have two packages that seem to be distributed only through quelpa.

🙏

al3x, 1 month ago to random

Besides not working, what frustrates me further is there’s absolutely no way to tell what features they support.

It’s beneficial to have a single connector. But having a standard to communicate what features they support and with what qualities it will make them really useful and friendly. https://social.lol/@andycarolan/112237460262692817

al3x, 1 month ago to emacs

Is it possible to automatically attach a property to a #emacs #Orgmode heading creating using C-S-RET or M-S-RET?

I do like to have a CREATED property on all tasks so I can purge them when they've stayed too long in the list.