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Emacs pinky is becoming a thing for me recently. I’ve been a happy user of CAPS as control, but recently my pinky started rebelling. My keyboard is non-standard. Time to think of other solutions :(
The Art Of Not Asking Why
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Back to Solarized
Years ago, when I started the old blog 1 , I discovered Solarized . I liked it. The colors were beautiful and worked for me, but eventually I switched to the Gotham theme in Emacs, which, if you take a look, is not much different — just a bit darker. I stayed with this theme for a long time, tweaking it a bit after a trip to New Mexico . When I received my Mac and started working on it at home, I…
Emacs Config Gems - Part 4
Part four of Emacs Config Gems is about basic file operations and save functions. I realized as I was working on this that I have the frame configuration here, which is the wrong place for it. I will change it after posting. Alright, here we go. When deleting a file in Emacs, we should use the system’s trash (or recycle bin) instead of deleting the file permanently, giving us a chance to…
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This guy was chilling at the farmer’s market today. 📷
My New Montior is Pushing me to Start Fresh on Kubuntu (Again)
I got a bigger and better monitor recently, and I’ve been exploring calibrating it on both my Mac and my Linux desktop for the last week or so. It started out as a necessity: at full resolution (3840 x 2160), the text was just too small for me to read. Since I hated the fact that things looked “off” at a lower resolution, and the options for my new external display on the Mac…
H3 HTML Tags are Right for Blog Posts
A few days ago, I was rambling about style and semantic HTML . It was a post mostly about <kbd></kbd> tags, but toward the end I said this: Reading through their tomb of standards, I realized I need to correct my headings on the blog too (I jump directly to <h3></h3> tags instead of going by order, because the CSS for these tags looks better — in other words, I’ve been lazy by not fixing…
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Here is a niche tip: if you’re tired of correcting the word “Emacs” whenever you dictate on your iPhone, Add Emacs to your contact list.
Emacs Config Gems - Part 3
My actual configs start with pretty usual stuff you’d see across many other Emacs configs. As I was going through these however, I started to wonder how things work and why they ended up the way we have them today. In turn, that led to reading about the intention behind those, which led to more options I didn’t think about. Also, it’s kind of fun. I’ve made two more passes…
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Still working on Emacs Config Gems part 3. Fell into a deep rabbit hole and got lost for a couple of days, then climbed out just to discover another one I have to explore next. I wanted to crunch the first few tweaks of my Emacs config in one post, but there’s too much to explore. I’m getting there!
Em Dashes in org-mode and the Nuances of Abbrev
Since I confessed my enjoyment of em dash in my writing last week, I started using them more freely. On a Mac, it’s Option Shift Hyphen , as Sasha would tell you. In Linux, it’s a bit more involved: Ctrl Shift U to bring up a search for Unicode number reference, and then the number for em dash: 2014 . This is all good and well, but what about Emacs, where I write most of my text? Emacs…
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I keep seeing this: “Don’t place your workspace in your bedroom! I did this to optimize the space at home and I totally regret this decision.” It’s becoming one of the main reasons to want to leave NYC. An apartment with an office for a room instead of another person paying the rent is not sustainable.
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You know when you talk to someone else with ADHD when you realize you juggle 3 conversations in one, going from one layer to the other, and you’re both able to keep track AND connect the layers when needed all while having lunch walking, because who has time to sit down anyway.
Style & Emacs Config: A Semantic HTML Reckoning
For years, I’ve been using verbatim emphasis in org-mode to mark files and keyboard strokes, while reserving code emphasis to show function names, variables, and other elements of code. With the reintroduction of <kbd></kbd> tags to the blog yesterday 1 , I wanted these tags to follow the same logic derived from my usage in org-mode: if I used verbatim in org-mode to indicate keystrokes and…
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This is one of the awesome things about having an espresso machine at home. I love watching the hot coffee “drilling” into the ice 📷. 🧊☕️☀️
Emacs Config Gems - Part 2
You know how I said last time Part 1 was just the introduction? I lied. My emacs-settings.org file includes an introduction that covers what I already went over and more. I thought I’d skip it, but as I looked through the notes I left to myself — various guidelines, warnings, and tips — I realized that this is exactly the kind of stuff I should share. Style As I was writing this, I fell into…
I Love me Some Em Dashes, and I Don't Care
They’ve been sneaking up on me again in my own writing, and I’ve been trying to catch them, changing them to colons. That’s alright for the most part; it kinda works. Kinda. And then this guy 1 came along : …colons are so nearly useless — they are the same width as a comma and unlike periods they don’t change the register of the following letter. Em dashes are of a…
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Nice sunny day to see a sunflower 📷
Emacs Config Gems - Part 1
I’ve been working on my Emacs config for three weeks now, coming this weekend. It’s one of the deepest and most fun rabbit holes I’ve been exploring. As I stumble upon new ways to do things, I dig deeper, learn more, and keep tweaking my config, which makes this rabbit lair even bigger. Eventually I realized that if I wait until I’m done to upload the config file, it will…
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Interesting trick, discovered by mistake: Dragging and dropping a file into Emacs while in a folder with Dired copies it there, just as Finder would. Did you know that? I didn’t!
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Hello there red guy. Glad you’re enjoying the weather. Me? Eh. I think it’s back to the AC in a few. Keep it real. 📷
Two Weeks, Two Projects
Two things kept me busy: revamping my Emacs config (that’s one huge rabbit hole) and attempting to organize a book. The Emacs config is probably relatable to many (if not most) folks who read this blog. Emacs is a text editor by definition, but an operating system by description. There is a lot to tweak in it, which is why the parody I pointed at at the top of this post several times . The…
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Been reading: Apple in China by Patrick McGee by Patrick McGee 📚. Surprisingly informative. In a way, it’s like reading some of the history of Apple and how they became this successful. It’s not too critical of Apple, at least not yet.
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Still working with Claude on my Emacs settings as a reference. Need to start a new session, so asked it to write a summary with instructions on how I like it to help me. It wrote this: I know it’s complementing me on purpose, but that emphasized why ? That’s why my blog is called this way 😉
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Say you go jump to a header in org-mode somewhere with C-c C-o . Did you know that you can go back with C-c & ? And that it has history, so you can keep going back?? Years of isearch-backwards … wasted. Mind blown. 🤯
A Quick org-mode Internal Links Reference
As I mentioned yesterday, I started organizing (and cleaning) my Emacs config. What may have seemed like an annoying and boring task has proven to be fun and addicting (reminds me of this , which is part of this video 😂). I’ve already discovered a couple of new improvements to my current config as I was researching individual settings and why I have them, and as I said I do plan to share…