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al3x

@al3x@hachyderm.io

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

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al3x, to emacs
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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, 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.

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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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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The more I look for Space Gremlin, the more confused I am. The forum doesn't seem to work anymore either.
I have sent an email to see if I hear back.
Without the Mac App Store version, Space Gremlin only works in demo mode; that's quite unhelpful.

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)

jschauma, to markdown
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al3x,
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@AAMfP @jschauma ... and with Org I always ask myself [[url][text]] or [[text][url]] 😂

al3x, to emacs
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I can’t believe it🤪: TIL has support for tabs.

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

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 random
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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, to random
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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, to emacs
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Who has a good setup for quelpa with use-package for ?

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

🙏

al3x, to emacs
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Is it possible to automatically attach a property to a 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.

al3x,
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@ctietze It worked perfectly! Thank you Christian!

(I’m still confused when to use add-hook, add-function, ‘ or #’ :-)

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.

factolvictor, to Batman
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April 4. Another day in Commissioner Gordon’s old-new-life in the decrepit and corrupt Gotham City. But that will change, there is a hope, a light at the end of the tunnel. And it has bat wings.

#batman #comics #dccomics #batmanyearone @bookstodon @comics

al3x,
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@factolvictor @bookstodon @comics

wow! I love the drawing style! where is the page from?

khalidabuhakmeh, to rust
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What’s neat about is the polyglot nature of it. I'm writing a library that I later consume in a solution, all without switching context.

I can also run my .NET solution and run my tests. That's a nice workflow.

al3x,
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@khalidabuhakmeh How long have you been using ? About 1year ago, it was a nice editor, but missed tons of features that its elder @Jetbrains' brothers had for long. (Yes, I do know, Fleet is not the same as the rest)

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