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grinn, 29 days ago to random

Ok I have a confession: I don't really write good when talking about a project I truly care about or have invested a lot of time in. How I got by in literature class was always choosing topics I couldn't care less about.

One such project I can't be eloquent about is objed.

https://gitlab.com/grinn.amy/objed

I've simply invested too much time and gotten too little appreciation for my work for my not to let my emotion through. I spent countless hours developing not only a tutorial game but also additional commands and documentation.

Don't get me wrong, I use it and rely on it every single day and that is its own reward. But stupid shit like my Chromecast package will get 10x the recognition.

https://gitlab.com/grinn.amy/chromecast.el

I honestly worked so hard to make objed more accessible. Give it a shot. Go through the tutorial game. Tell me it sucks, or it's awesome, or it's useless, or it's groundbreaking.

grinn, 29 days ago to emacs

Sometimes I get overwhelmed by having a free day and end up not accomplishing much. This morning it was processing my feelings toward my family's political views. I think it was valuable to come to some conclusions about why their views bothered me so much, but it took time.

I'm sitting on some patches and email drafts waiting for the fsf to update my copyright assignment record.

I'm going to work on objed for a while, then my blog. For objed I want to translate the test runner from a Makefile to an elisp eldev command. For the blog I want to do the opposite: translate the elisp build script into a Makefile.

Both are attempts at simplifying the development process though, just choosing the right tool for each job.

#elisp #emacs #objed

grinn, 1 month ago to emacs

I'm still hopeful clang-format-indent-mode will eventually be accepted into the LLVM project, but for now you can try it out as a separate package:

https://gitlab.com/grinn.amy/clang-format-indent

If you are using clang-format in any of your projects, this might be useful to apply complex .clang-format rules as you type rather than after-the-fact.

Here's the pull request:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/78904

#emacs #llvm #clang

clang-format-indent package usage demo.

grinn, 1 month ago to emacs

I'm slightly disappointed that the mastodon client for Emacs doesn't work in the terminal, at least ootb.

#emacs #MELPA

louis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

There is a first usable version of a Mastodon client app written with CAPI available:

https://codeberg.org/louis77/cl-mastoclient

A pre-built binary for Linux x64 is available on Codeberg, too.

The app is very simple, just downloads your statuses (meaning, your own posts) from your instance and let's you search through them after it finished. A double-click opens the post in the browser.

It should work with any Mastodon™️ compatible server.

In case any #LispWorks users with DV licenses for Win/MacOS/FreeBSD, let me know if you can deliver it.

louis, 1 month ago to mastodon

I just spent 8 minutes of my life trying to scroll down in my personal timeline to find the oldest post I ever made in Nov. 2022. I almost hit it, when the browser tab froze and it became completely unresponsive. Had to force kill.

Apparently 4 physical cores of a 2020 Intel CPU and 16 GB of RAM are not enough to fight against the hopelessly bloated #Mastodon UI.

Now, I have to get that thought about a fork out of my mind again, which might take even longer.

Cheers 🍺

grinn, 1 month ago to Michigan

Does anyone know how I can influence politics most effectively? Preferably without knocking on doors. Can I program my state representative out of office? Which language would I use for that? The primary is in August.

I don't have specific beef with my current representation, I'm just interested in politics.

#2024election #michigan

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.

grinn, 1 month ago to emacs

If you want to be notified of scheduled and deadlined tasks in Org mode, there is no better way than with org-yaap. It has zero dependencies other than Emacs 27.1 and it works great on Android with termux.

I've been using it for two years without issue. The documentation and options are superbly setup to fit most uses of Org:

"""
By default, you will be notified for all scheduled headings (org-yaap-include-scheduled') and headings with a deadline (org-yaap-include-deadline') within your agenda files. If a heading only includes the date, you will be notified at 9am on the day of the heading (org-yaap-daily-alert'). If you don't mark a heading as done, you will be repeatedly notified every 30 minutes after the heading was due (org-yaap-overdue-alerts').
"""

You can install it from my package archive at https://packages.amygrinn.com/ or download the latest release from https://gitlab.com/grinn.amy/org-yaap/-/releases then package-install-file

#emacs #showcase #elisp #org

grinn, 1 month ago to random

Did ya know you can write Makefiles in Elisp? Just add these three lines:

SHELL != which emacs
.SHELLFLAGS = -Q --batch --eval
.ONESHELL:

grinn, 2 months ago to random

Does anyone know an better way to get org noweb to not interfere with syntax highlighting in a shell script?

The noweb syntax is treated like a heredoc. Even this hack doesn't work all the time: I'll often have to press return at the end of the "firewall-safe-mode" line and undo in order to correct the highlighting.

grinn, 3 months ago to random

Some might've noticed my personal blog has been down. Full disclosure: it was running on a Windows server that wasn't really mine but was being stored in my home. I am planning on moving to gitlab pages for a more permanent home.

At the same time, my laptop screen broke. That's unfortunate, of course, but I also see it as an opportunity to convert the laptop into a home server and learn more about networking.

It's been slow, cuz I have a day job and I've been doing most of the configuration on my phone and tablet. But it's given me a lot more stuff to write about in the future.

For one thing, I'd like to update my article on how to use Emacs on the remarkable tablet with a Bluetooth keyboard. It's still possible! Even with the latest xochitl.

But I'm also really excited about this tiny bit of elisp I wrote to interactively execute and log system commands using org babel. I'm hoping most or all of the server configuration will be detangled into a single literate config.

I'd also like to write about my experiences setting up DNS filtering and OpenVPN, as well as dealing with a limited and sometimes 'creepy' router through all of it.

In the end, I realize that no one is entitled to be able to access my blog and I would like to apologize for the delay in getting it back up and running. It's going to be a little longer! But technical blogging is something that still gives me a lot of joy.

Interactively executing and logging system commands using org babel

grinn, 3 months ago to random

I made my first transient menu! It enables control of any chromecast-enabled device on the local network.

https://gitlab.com/grinn.amy/chromecast.el

grinn, 6 months ago to random

My blog is now located at https://blog.amygrinn.com

louis, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

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ms, 10 months ago to random

I've been trying to get into Org-Mode more but on multiple packages (Jira, Agenda) I get

"autoload-do-load: Symbol’s value as variable is void: org--inhibit-version-check"

Anyone has seen this error? I'm not comfortable with elisp enough to jump into it.