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bbatsov

@bbatsov@hachyderm.io

Hacker. Lover of parentheses. Emacs fanatic. Just another person on the Internet with too many opinions.

Not the best, but pretty good.

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collin, to random
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I got to season 9 of Stargate and man I do not like Vala so far.

bbatsov,
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@collin Oh, well - sadly the show is pretty weak in its final seasons. I'm a huge fan, but didn't really enjoy it after the departure of Richard Dean Anderson. The spin-offs were fairly weak as well IMO, although I did watch them both. No show should be allowed to continue after 5 seasons. 🙂

bbatsov, to random
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I'm a huge fan of "The Matrix", but I'm not sure how I feel about more sequels https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matrix-sequel-drew-goddard

bbatsov, to random
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Not really a joke...

bbatsov,
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@sqrtminusone What's this fancy weather mode?

bbatsov, to Ukraine
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Yesterday I managed to attend the premiere of the Oscar-winning ”20 Days in Mariupol" in Sofia. Very powerful and moving documentary. Only now I realized that many of the photos and videos from the early days of the siege of Mariupol came from a couple of journalists, who took enormous risks to document the horrors that took place there.

I hope this movie will remind some people that the war today is just as brutal as it was 2 years ago and still needs all of our support.

bbatsov, to random
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True story!

bbatsov, to emacs
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Debug on exception functionality just landed in CIDER https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3366 It's always nice to see a long-running PR make it to the finish line!

bbatsov, to random
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I can never understand the people who use an analog face on a smartwatch. (e.g. Apple Watch) Digital faces are both more readable (legible?) and the natural choice for a smartwatch IMO.

bbatsov,
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@jkxyz Most of the time I wear analog watches, so probably some of my aversion for analog faces on smartwatches comes from the there. Feels like cheating to me.

Btw, many digital watches/faces have relatively subtle ways to present seconds. (e.g. something filling up around the main time) Apple Watch's overview smart stacks screen is a good example of this.

bbatsov,
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@jkxyz That’s why I’m hoping that health-tracking rings will become the next big thing down the road. :-) I have a smartwatch as well, but I rarely wear it, because I’m way too fond of old-school watches.

bbatsov, to random
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I’ve been tracking my sleep diligently for the past few months and it seems I sleep around 6,5 hours/day. (Not that I didn’t know this before, but now I have it on the record!)

How much do you typically sleep?

ctietze, to emacs
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coders using project.el and not projectile -- how do you switch between test and implementation files quickly?

https://github.com/rags/toggle-test is a thing but no commit for 9 years, so I do wonder what's the rage in 2024

bbatsov,
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@ctietze I think there was some package providing Projectile features on top of project.el, but I forgot its name. Probably this one https://github.com/mohkale/projection Obviously I won't be switching to project.el any time soon. 😅

bbatsov, to random
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So, DST started in North America over the weekend, but it's not coming to Europe for the next 3 weeks... 3 weeks of confusion and scheduling conflicts ahead! 😅

robpike, to random
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OK this is a surprise. I have a new Mac laptop with a notch and I CAN'T SEE ALL MY MENUBAR ITEMS I MEAN WHAT? WHAT????

How is this even an idea for a UI?

bbatsov,
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@robpike It’s bad UI for sure, but I noticed that in practice this rarely created issues for me. (I’ve been using a MBA with a notch for about 1.5 years) I guess I’m that I don’t use many apps with big menus and I’m now more selective of the items that show up in the system tray.

mauricioszabo, to telegram

Every update from the @telegram 's website gets me an worse experience...

bbatsov,
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@mauricioszabo @telegram Indeed. In many ways it reminds me of Slack - started off simple and turned into a complex monster eventually.

tenderlove, to random
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Also I just hate thinking like a hacker. "In what ways can I abuse this software in order to hurt someone else" is just not a mindset that I like to have.

I have absolutely no interest in ruining someone's day, let alone thinking about the different ways in which someone's day could be ruined, and in what versions

bbatsov,
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@tenderlove I always think of “hacker” like this: “advanced computer technology enthusiast (both hardware and software) and adherent of programming subculture”. It’s a bit sad that pop culture (e.g. movies like “Hackers”) changed the meaning of the term for most people.

Other than this - totally agree with you.

bbatsov, to python
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Basilisp, a Clojure-like language targeting Python, wins the "Brilliant Lisp Naming Award" https://github.com/basilisp-lang/basilisp Awesome logo as well!

bbatsov, to mastodon
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I've noticed that emacs.ch has some interesting "autoblog" feature. (see https://faq.emacs.ch/#orgb77e034) Anyone knows where this is coming from? I'm guessing it's not standard .

bbatsov, to emacs
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I’m sure you know about M-x, but do you know about M-X? If not - check out https://emacsredux.com/blog/2024/02/29/run-buffer-specific-commands-with-m-x/

bbatsov, to ruby
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Matz, the creator of , is a prominent user. Few people, however, realize that Matz's passion for Emacs influenced a bit the early design of Ruby. See his presentation "How Emacs changed my life" for more details https://www.slideshare.net/yukihiro_matz/how-emacs-changed-my-life

tenderlove, to random
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"Things I wish I had known before getting in to Open Source"

bbatsov,
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@tenderlove The lottery numbers!

bbatsov, to emacs
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Lately I’ve been more inspired than usual to write about . Today I offer my perspective on how the second Golden Age of Emacs came to be https://batsov.com/articles/2024/02/27/m-x-reloaded-the-second-golden-age-of-emacs/

bbatsov, to orgmode
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Are you surprised by those results? It seems that and are (way) less popular than I thought, and that is way more popular than I expected.

Of course, we should take those results with a grain of salt, as I assume many of my followers are users. 😀

bbatsov, to random
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Today we mark 2 years since the start of the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Remember Ukraine, its people, its heroes and their sacrifice. I hope they will prevail in the end! I also hope that the developed world will come to its senses and support Ukraine’s struggle fully and unconditionally . Ukraine’s victory would be a victory of democracy and freedom over dictatorship and oppression. And a major blow against the far-right movements that Russia funds all over the world. Героям слава!

bbatsov, to emacs
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Flycheck has been accepted into NonGNU ELPA https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/nongnu.git/commit/?id=7c06709972291413f18b750248b141293415cd42 🎉🍾🥳 Big thanks to Dmitry Gutov for helping to make this happen! (especially after the negative initial outlook)

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