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sachac

@sachac@emacs.ch

Interests include: #Emacs, #OrgMode, #elisp, #nodejs, #python, #sketchnotes, #parenting, #cooking, #gardening, #knitting, #sewing, #lego, #captioning, #plover #steno, and #stoic philosophy. Originally from Manila, now in Toronto. Married to a Vim guy (go figure) and raising a 7-year old (editor preference unknown), along with two very loud cats.

Blog: https://sachachua.com (mostly Emacs News these days), sketches: https://sketches.sachachua.com. I also maintain planet.emacslife.com and subed.el

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2024-05-27 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/05/2024-05-27-emacs-news/

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@screwtape @gnomon @ramin_hal9001 @adanskana amusingly, someone has actually written one: https://github.com/cnngimenez/sachac-news

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Hi @sachac just to let you know that your website seems to be down.

sachac,
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@bounga aww, thanks! You're welcome. I love how people share what they're learning!

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2023-07-31 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-31-emacs-news/

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Uhhh, 2100: Detection error on HDD0 (Main HDD) is not a good sign...

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I wanted to use SVG elements to highlight sections of a map without having to reproduce the text and other parts of it, so I wanted it to darken only.

First I needed to set titles on the elements so that I could identify them. Couldn't figure out good keyboard shortcuts in Inkscape, so I used Autohotkey to click on the title box in the Object Properties docker and then move the mouse back to the original position.

Support for mix-blend-mode on SVG elements is limited. I worked around that by using the image as the background on a div with fixed width, removing height and width on the SVG to make it responsive, and applying mix-blend-mode on my whole SVG.

Also, the platform I was doing this on didn't like SVGs, so I base64-encoded the data, then fetched and decoded it. Hack upon hack upon hack, but it seems to be working.

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I occasionally get auth errors when I use mastodon.el. This seems to work around them:

(defun my-mastodon-clear-auth ()  
 "Fix alist-get: Wrong type argument: listp, (error . \"The access token is invalid\") error."  
 (interactive)  
 (setq mastodon-auth--token-alist nil))
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It was super easy to use pavucontrol switch the output of my BigBlueButton test web conference room into a PulseAudio null sink that I had previously created, and then use the monitor of that sink as the input to my live speech transcription setup so that I could get it into Emacs. I don't have to mess around with mic + system audio setup for that one. I just need to join the web conference in a separate browser (might even be just a separate tab) and then reroute the audio. My next step is to see if I can get Etherpad's new appendText API call working. Then I can hook up with that and dump a live transcript into Etherpads. I also want to experiment with semi-automatically identifying speakers and correcting misrecognized words.

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All right, cancelling for now since the kiddo would like more snuggles and we're trying to shift to less screentime. See y'all when things settle down eventually!

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2023-08-14 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/08/2023-08-14-emacs-news/

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2023-10-23 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/10/2023-10-23-emacs-news/

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2023-07-17 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/07/2023-07-17-emacs-news/

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Okay, I think the YouTube channel should have all the talks and current subtitles. https://www.youtube.com/@EmacsConf Next time I can fiddle with things, I'll work on getting the PeerTube channel sorted out, and then the Q&A videos too.

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@daviwil there are 42 talks up there now, yay (27 general, 15 development). =) There are three more talks that are penciled in. We'll save time for them in the schedule and we'll add their pages when the plans are firmer.

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update: all the current videos have edited captions or are being worked on, yay! Just waiting for more speakers to upload their talks... =)

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I haven't been able to access git.sr.ht URLs for a while, so I finally got around to looking into it. I can access it from my phone if I turn off wifi. I still can't access it from my laptop if I disable the Pi-hole ad-blocker. I think Sourcehut's blocking a range of IPs that my Internet provider uses, which is inconvenient.

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@louis Would you consider adding automatic titles to the autoblog RSS feed? :) No rush, low priority, just makes them easier to include in Planet Emacslife and RSS readers.

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2024-04-08 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/04/2024-04-08-emacs-news/

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2023-08-28 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/08/2023-08-28-emacs-news/

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I reorganized my #Emacs config ( https://sachachua.com/dotemacs/index.html ) to have more top-level headings and break large sections down some more. my-org-refile-in-file was super handy.

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2024-02-19 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/02/2024-02-19-emacs-news/

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2023-08-21 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2023/08/2023-08-21-emacs-news/

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Just realized that EleventyHtmlBasePlugin was rewriting my #main link to be an absolute URL without the #main reference. Hmm...

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Kiddo does better when we both put off screen time until late afternoon, so I probably won't get to have as much coding time for the next little while!

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2024-06-03 Emacs news https://sachachua.com/blog/2024/06/2024-06-03-emacs-news/

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Yay, I'm starting to be able to solve a 3x3 Rubik's cube with my eyes closed!

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