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

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.

factolvictor, 1 month ago to Batman

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

khalidabuhakmeh, 1 month ago to rust

What’s neat about #JetBrains #Fleet is the polyglot nature of it. I'm writing a #rustlang library that I later consume in a #dotnet #csharp solution, all without switching context.

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

al3x, 1 month ago to orgmode

After losing some edits of #orgmode files in between #Beorg and #Emacs, tonight I have added a save-on-focus-lost to Emacs:

(add-hook 'focus-out-hook ‘org-save-all-org-buffers)

The simplicity to accomplish this result is incredible. Similar things can be accomplished in #vim too.

Modern editors have to expose configuration flags for such features. Which are indeed easier to use if present, but less configurable and less composable.

galdor, 1 month ago to emacs

The value of #Emacs 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, 1 month ago to macos

Nobody tried yet the AltTab app? https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app

I have installed it a couple of days ago and it’s proving great.

#macOS

al3x, 2 months ago to random

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)