# take two (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover take two. Page: Feed: --- ## [The glamour of being an airline pilot's wife](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-glamour-of-being-an-airline-pilots) _2026-08-22 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ People often assume that having an airline pilot husband is glamorous. ## [A little bit magical](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/a-little-bit-magical) _2026-08-19 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ Create a talking point for your dinner table using blooms from your garden...and a little ice! OK, a LOT of ice.... ## [The billion-dollar garden](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-billion-dollar-garden) _2026-08-17 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ There is a conversation that my son and I have been having for several years now. ## [Defeating Satan's root ball](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/defeating-satans-root-ball) _2026-08-15 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ There was a time when I firmly believed hedge trimming was the worst job in the garden. ## [This is a psychological assessment](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/this-is-a-psychological-assessment) _2026-08-12 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ What does your garden say about your personality? ## [I have a dream. A stupid one...but a dream nevertheless](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/i-have-a-dream-a-stupid-onebut-a) _2026-08-08 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ I want goats. ## [The strange magic of paying attention](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-strange-magic-of-paying-attention) _2026-08-05 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ In a recent blog post, I wrote about how gardening turns us into hopeless future addicts. ## [The 5-minute Italian recipe that capitalises on your summer tomato glut](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-5-minute-italian-recipe-that) _2026-08-03 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ One of the great joys of travelling is discovering simple dishes that somehow taste far better than the sum of their parts. ## [The Husband makes a tactical error he'll live to regret](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-husband-makes-a-tactical-error) _2026-08-01 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ The rain had been hammering down all day. ## [Can you make an income from your garden?](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/can-you-make-an-income-from-your) _2026-07-31 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ BONUS free post for everyone. ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vbjvwxIPvy3a) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [The lost art of living by the seasons](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/the-lost-art-of-living-by-the-seasons) _2026-07-27 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ First things first…I’ve had a couple of middle-aged brain fog moments lately and accidentally clicked the ‘publish’ button on two future posts that I was intending to schedule. ## [Take two! But will it look good in a vase?](https://themanicbotanic.substack.com/p/but-will-it-look-good-in-a-vase) _2026-07-26 · The Manic Botanic · The Manic Botanic_ Not every beautiful bloom performs well as a cut flower ## [Trying Ty for my LSP in Emacs](https://gregnewman.io/blog/trying-ty-for-lsp-in-emacs/) _2025-12-16 · Greg Newman_ Astral announced Ty Beta today, the new Rust-based Python type checker. I've been using Ruff and uv for a while now, and they've consistently delivered on the "rewrite Python tooling in Rust to make it absurdly fast" promise. So when they claimed Ty is 10-80x faster than Pyright for incremental checking, I had to try it. I've been using basedpyright with Eglot and it works, but I'd be lying if I… ## [Auto-Commit Your Orgmode Files with Just and fswatch on macOS](https://gregnewman.io/blog/autocommit-org-files-using-just/) _2025-12-08 · Greg Newman_ For a while I have used gitwatch to autocommit my Orgmode and Denote files to my private repo but I always manually started gitwatch which means I often forget to start it. I tried to setup a launch agent for it but that fails because of issues with fswatch spawning multiple gitwatch processes which inevitably causes git lock issues. What I ended up doing is using just and fswatch from a launch… ## [TIL Speed up Magit on MacOS](https://gregnewman.io/blog/speed-up-magit-on-macos/) _2025-07-03 · Greg Newman_ I've been using Magit in Emacs for many years and on larger (and some smaller) projects there would usually be a 3 to 5 second delay with magit-status and commits. Today I've been refactoring my config and fixing annoyances and learned that setting the git executable explicitly fixed that issue for me - from about 4 seconds down to less than a second. (use-package magit :bind ("C-x g" .… ## [Mastodon as Comments in Astrojs](https://gregnewman.io/blog/mastodon-comments-in-astrojs/) _2025-07-01 · Greg Newman_ Since moving off Hugo into this Astro blog I haven't had much time to write yet do much work to the site. One of the things on my list was adding comments but I didn't want to use a third party service for them. The only social media I use anymore is Mastodon so it seemed the right choice to just aggregate comments from the Toots I share on Mastodon into my blog posts. This is what I came up with… ## [Emacs Carnival 2025-07: Writing Experience](https://gregnewman.io/blog/emacs-carnival-2025-07-writing-experience/) _2025-06-30 · Greg Newman_ It is month two of the Emacs Carnival and I am hosting July with the topic of "Writing Experience". This is such a wide ranging topic but one I know the Emacs community and beyond loves to discuss. It usually produces some interesting posts and workflows. Whether you are writing novels, zettlekasten or simply taking notes, what is your writing experience in Emacs. Denote, Howm, Orgmode, Org-Roam,… ## [Emacs Take Two (Eglot)](https://gregnewman.io/blog/emacs-take-two/) _2025-06-29 · Greg Newman_ This post is my contribution to the Emacs Carnival June 2025 topic "Take Two" set by Christian Tietze . This is also a cross post for the IndieWeb Carnival: Take Two which was the original inspiration behind the Emacs Carnival. You can get more information about the Emacs Carnival on the wiki . I started using Emacs about 20 years ago. From the start I was heavily involved in the Emacs IRC channel… ## [Capture Tasks from Emacs to OmniFocus](https://gregnewman.io/blog/emacs-tasks-to-omnifocus/) _2025-06-06 · Greg Newman_ Last week I had an urge to both see if it's possible to send tasks from emacs to OmniFocus and to test Claude's ability with elisp. Most of my productivity needs are handled analog but some go into OmniFocus (right now). I use orgmode for notes and tasks related to those notes but not as my task management system. While the quick capture in OmniFocus works just fine I thought i'd just experiment a…