jtr

jtr, 9 months ago to random

From all greedy social networks I miss Reddit the most. Used one of the alternative apps, but it's out now. Meanwhile the official app is a dumpster fire. Besides checking in once a while on a their website, are there any alternatives?

jtr, 4 months ago to stocks

Morning thought: can we make stock selling illegal for certain public companies that have their customers' lives at stake, like, say, Boeing?

Think of it: the average Joe down the street from you who has stocks in the company has more deciding power regarding the airplane that’s going to fly you to your vacation next month than the engineers who built it.

#stocks #Boeing #Boeing737Max #capitalism

jtr, 11 months ago to opensource

Any contributors to open street maps in the house?

#osmand #openstreetmap #maps #foss

jtr, 4 months ago to random

I’m the proud owner of several cute owl logos for my site and wiki, thanks to Andy. The question now is, can I display one image for the microblog timeline (my current one), but a different one as my blog’s logo? @help https://andycarolan.com

jtr, 1 month ago to random

Apple Watch newbie question: Do I have to press the side button twice before I pay to go into transit, or is there an option without it? On the iPhone, you can

jtr, 3 months ago to CSS

Cleaned up my CSS a bit and added more comments to illustrate what I’ve done with TinyTheme. Feel free to borrow ideas! This is an ongoing fun:

https://taonaw.com/2024/02/24/cleaned-up-my.html

#css #blogging #design

jtr, 1 month ago to random

You know what. This is not a bad way to ask for tips. I’m enjoying this.

jtr, 1 month ago to edge

Getting used to Edge again means trying to duplicate some of the productivity tricks Arc gave me.
Having a collection of work-related tabs in one accent color is nice, and being able to customize their icons and rename them is also important. Here’s what I have so far. https://gitlab.com/taonaw/taonah/-/blob/master/public/20240416T085958--customizing-edge__microsoft.org?ref_type=heads&blame=1

#edge #microsoft #workflow #technicalwriting

jtr, 4 months ago to emacs

Less org-mode, more Outlook? Why!?

I still love org-mode, and I still use it every day. I just realized there's one more area it doesn't work well for me.

#emacs #orgmode #outlook

https://taonaw.com/2024/01/03/less-orgmode-more.html

jtr, 1 month ago to random

Commander Keen is on Steam, and I didn’t know?! Hold my beer! Backlog shmaglog, this is one classic sonofamitch that needs replaying.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/9180/Commander_Keen/

jtr, 1 year ago to random

I don't resolve git conflicts. I kill them with rm -rf. And then I clone back from the repository.

It's my own damn repo and I'll do what I want to.

Does that mean I'm breaking the rules?

jtr, 1 month ago to emacs

Scratching my head at an Emacs issue: Elfeed-org doesn’t seem to load my feeds. I’m not sure why, everything looks OK. I have my feeds.org and I have the path defined in rmh-elfeed-org-files and it does show the value it’s supposed to have.

Does anyone have a working config I can look at?

#emacs #elfeed #rss

jtr, 3 months ago to random

It's time for a ask-a-human question:

I like me some metal drawers I saw, but I want one of them with a lock. No alternatives of this side with a lock can be found.

Who can install a lock for me? Where do I find them? What would be the average cost of that? Also, anyone with experience?

Thanks!

#askahuman
don't #letmegooglethat please, #googlesucks

jtr, 6 months ago to photography

My new printer is here, and it's fantastic.

I love being able to print my photos in a way I didn't understand before. Thanks @jbaty , for the solutions and ideas 😄

https://taonaw.com/2023/11/11/my-new-printer.html

#photography #printer #photos

jtr, 9 days ago to emacs

I've updated my Microsoft Edge notes after working with it for a couple of weeks. If you use Office 365 for work like I do, here's a tip: Maximize (but don't go full screen!) when working with Edge. Read more in the full article linked above.

For Emacs org-mode users, two tips in two new notes: linking to other org-mode headers and plain lists to checklists in org-mode.

https://taonaw.com/2024/05/22/ive-updated-my.html

#emacs #orgmode #edge #office365

jtr, 4 months ago to random

Good morning

jtr, 6 months ago to random

I forget sometimes how expensive NYC can be. Coffee and sandwich cost close to $20 with 15% tip…

jtr, 6 months ago to writing

Why do you need a technical writer?

A sysadmin or an engineer may know what this means:

“When users log on to Domain joined computers, they are automatically mapped to the X: Drive based on the Organizational Unit they are member of”

The users will not.

#techwriting #writing #instructions #sysadmin #engineer

jtr, 1 month ago to random

Just discovered my old college stopped offering the technical writing program. I understand where they’re coming from (it was always a hard program to market), but at the same time, it sucks. There’s too little understanding of technical writing, especially during the age of AI.

jtr, 6 months ago to movies

Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★½: https://taonaw.com/2023/11/13/anatomy-of-a.html

#movies #review

jtr, 1 month ago to random

An older photo from the archive of a… Hyacinth? Did I get that right? Right here at a nearby park

April Photo 📷 Challenge 2: Flowers

jtr, 3 months ago to random

No, it’s not like Slack. Or Teams. And please don’t tell me it’s like IRC.

Discord makes me feel old in a way I don’t like. Most of the people I share common interests with use it all day every day, but to me, it’s just a lot of chaotic noise. I can’t make sense of it.

jtr, 2 months ago to emacs

As this is yet another Emacs org-mode update, and several people comments on those, I created Emacs org-mode category on my blog with its own dedicated RSS feed:
https://taonaw.com/categories/emacs-org-mode/feed.xml

This post should be on it as a test.
Emacs org-mode category: https://taonaw.com/2024/03/29/ive-been-following.html

#emacs #orgmode

jtr, 1 year ago to fediverse

People of #mastodon , do you use your company’s phone for “personal” apps, like WhatsApp, mastodon, youtube? What about your bank apps?

What’s your reasoning?

jtr, 2 months ago to emacs

I've just updated my emacs configuration to include an important fix for org-refile.

In case you've adopted Vertico and Orderless (like I did) and org-refile stopped working for you, and you don't know why... this is for you.

This is also in Vertico's documentation. https://github.com/minad/vertico?tab=readme-ov-file#org-refile

(credit in finding this issue goes to Prot)

#emacs #orgmode