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al3x

@al3x@hachyderm.io

friends, cats, distributed systems, questions

(currently Sen.Dir of Eng. for Oracle Cloud, ex-{DataStax/Cassandra, RethinkDB, co-founder InfoQ})

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al3x, to vim
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I haven’t been able to find all the right groups of people on the fediverse. And this makes me sad. I follow a group of people in my field of work and a large # of people in the Apple development ecosystem.

What I couldn’t find so far:

  • people that talk regularly about
  • people that toot regularly about
  • people that listen to and toot about the albums they are listening
  • people that listen to classical music and toot about those albums.

Can you help?

galdor, to emacs
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The value of is not in the packages that are available (Gnus, org-mode, Magit, etc.). It is the fact that these packages live in the same application, manipulate text the same way, and can interact with each other to do exactly what you want them to do.

al3x,
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@galdor What is amazing to me is how extensible both and are while using completely differently approaches.

And how little modern editors have learned from them. I don't want to poopoo on modern editors as some are really good and cool. But very few have been build on this fundamental philosophy of extensibility.

mathowie, to random
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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,
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@mathowie @nckh Indeed!
Most of the most popular/used/viral are algorithm-based push.

I'm wondering if the original article is available anywhere.

al3x, to neovim
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I don’t find and conversations on Mastodon. If you know of anything please let me know.

al3x, to neovim
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TIL: Neovide https://neovide.dev

“This is a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform graphical user interface for Neovim (an aggressively refactored and updated Vim editor). Where possible there are some graphical improvements, but functionally it should act like the terminal UI.”

al3x, to random
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Do you have or use any "Awesome *" Git repos for keeping track or finding great tools or utilities? Please do share your favorite ones.

al3x, to random
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I am looking for an iPhone app that allows me:

  1. to define a list of tasks (repeating every day)
  2. time the duration of each of the tasks

For reasons that cannot be explained I am not sure how to search for such an app in the ocean of iPhone apps. Please help!

al3x, to random
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What is the crafty approach for hosting a blog in 2024? I’m looking for recommendations. Thank you

al3x, to random
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This is my Meditation focus mode. Even if no notifications are allowed, an iMessage has pinged me twice on the Apple Watch. Why?!?!

al3x, to random
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Does anyone have any ideas or hypothesis why Shortcuts show up only sometimes in the iPhone searches?

There are times when Shortcuts show up. There are times when they do not. It is completely random. Not showing up is the more frequent result though.

(I'd appreciate any ideas or reposting to get answers. Thank you)

al3x, to emacs
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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, to emacs
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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/

al3x, to emacs
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After only one day of fun, this elfeed issues makes it completely
unusable for me https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed/issues/509

Basically the elfeed db gets corrupted after every usage.

How unfortunate as I really liked it.

al3x, to random
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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, to random
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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, to random
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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,
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@0xSim I see. By paying for the service I was hoping
to get the peace of mind that I have a copy of my photos somewhere.

I chose a big company to avoid the situation of the company going out of business.

I did not account for the case of the company deciding to switch directions and stopping to care about the service. This being Google, it's mostly on me for missing this angle.

al3x, to vim
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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 or . This is not only very common but
also very encouraged. After getting used to that, connect to a remote server.

al3x, to emacs
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In other news, 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 .

al3x, to emacs
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What am I doing wrong in my attempt to configure the 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 doctors :-D.

al3x, to emacs
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What am I doing wrong in this 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, to macos
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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.

al3x,
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@siracusa sorry for pinging you, do you happen to know anything about what Space Gremlin’s presence in the App Store? (I believe I learned about the app from you and thus deduced you are the only Space Gremlin user I know)

al3x, to random
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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, to emacs
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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,
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@masukomi are you familiar with the C-x 8 e binding prefix for using emojis? C-x 8 e e (or i) is insert and offers a short list, C-x 8 e s is search assuming you know the name, C-x 8 e l is list.

This is not similar to the behavior in Slack which is closer to abbrevs or snippets, areas that I am not that familiar with.

al3x, to emacs
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Question for 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)

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