al3x

al3x, 4 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 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, 10 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, 22 days 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, 23 days 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, 23 days 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, 28 days 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