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al3x, to vim
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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.

withoutclass,
@withoutclass@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@al3x No problem, I'll use TRAMP :)

al3x, to random
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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.

cjk,
@cjk@chaos.social avatar

@al3x as far as understood it: there are several contradictory stimuli. On the one hand muscle growth (in hypertrophy), on the other hand maximum strength and muscle endurance.

For muscle growth and endurance, it is OK and sometimes beneficial to go to muscle failure.

But not for maximum strength.

al3x, to random
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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.

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@al3x

Dude, that's bloody horrible. And yet he continues to use those fetid platforms? Man :'(

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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.

louis,
@louis@emacs.ch avatar

@al3x Since I had a similar issue, look at the end of your init.el, where you have your (custom-set-variables ...) (which is created by the customize facility). It is very likely that you once changed your font interactively with customize and have this configuration still in your init.el.

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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 .

mykhaylo,
@mykhaylo@fosstodon.org avatar

@al3x are you using elfeed?

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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!

ctietze,
@ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

@al3x Does the (setq...) work if you eval it in the newsticker mode manually? (Asking with the intent to isolate something about the hook not running from the actual effect)

I'd have expected setq-local to be needed to limit this to your newsticker-mode buffer.

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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.

daviwil,
@daviwil@fosstodon.org avatar

@al3x Check out Newsticker, it's included with Emacs

al3x, to macos
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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,
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

@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)

siracusa,
@siracusa@mastodon.social avatar

@al3x I don’t think I’ve ever heard of that app.

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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)

ctietze,
@ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

@al3x it has support for multiple levels of tabs, which is even weirder, but makes sense if you treat the topmost bar for window configurations like you do!

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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?

siracusa,
@siracusa@mastodon.social avatar

@al3x All of it! You just have to scale everything down (in size and/or in number).

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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

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

🙏

daviwil,
@daviwil@fosstodon.org avatar

@al3x if you're on Emacs 29, an alternative would be to clone the package repo with 'package-vc-install', it works pretty well

al3x, to random
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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

cflewis,
@cflewis@hachyderm.io avatar

@al3x @andycarolan waiitttt USB-C cables can have different capabilities?!

andycarolan,
@andycarolan@social.lol avatar

@cflewis Apparently @al3x

al3x, to emacs
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

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,
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

@ctietze It worked perfectly! Thank you Christian!

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

ctietze,
@ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

@al3x Didn't know that add-function exists :)

' is to denote what comes after is a symbol
#' is to denote what comes after is a symbol representing a function name, so the Elisp compiler will check if it exists (if you compile it, that is)

al3x, to orgmode
@al3x@hachyderm.io avatar

After losing some edits of files in between and , 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 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.

hajovonta,
@hajovonta@mastodon.online avatar

@al3x BuT mOdErN eDiToRs ArE mAgIc, WhY wOuLd YoU uSe EmAcS ?!

holgerschurig,

@hajovonta @al3x I could program Emacs to fix your flaky shift key behavior ...

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