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Yay Emacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist
[2025-01-07 Tue]: I like the way Karthik's blog posts have play-by-plays for the videos (ex: Fringe Matters: Finding the Right Difference), so I've added an experimental play by play at the bottom of...
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[2025-01-06 Mon]: Fix typo in exitter's name Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jan 8 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago -...
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#YayEmacs 9: Trimming/adding silences to get to a target; subed-record-sum-time
New in this video: subed-record-sum-time, #+PAD_LEFT and #+PAD_RIGHT Video not supported. Thumbnail:Download the video I like the constraints of a one-minute video, so I added a subed-record-sum-time...
View ArticleOrg Babel, Mermaid JS, and fixing "Failed to launch the browser process" on...
Mermaid makes pretty diagrams from text. It's Javascript-based, so the command-line tool (mmdc) uses Puppeteer to get the results of evaluating the diagram in the browser. I was running into some...
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Automatically correcting phrasing and misrecognized words in speech-to-text...
I usually write my scripts with phrases that could be turned into the subtitles. I figured I might as well combine that information with the WhisperX transcripts which I use to cut out my false starts...
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Treemap visualization of an Org Mode file
One of the challenges with digital notes is that it's hard to get a sense of volume, of mass, of accumulation. Especially with Org Mode, everything gets folded away so neatly and I can jump around so...
View Article2025-01-13 Emacs news
Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #1 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/cb726f44-8b7f-44f7-91a5-fc9d3f9ad7a9 Tue Jan 14 1900 CET Talk by Andrew...
View ArticleChanging planet.emacslife.com
For the longest time, planet.emacslife.com was generated with the Planet Venus aggregator, which required Python 2.7. My recent blog post about Yay Emacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist had some emojis...
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Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830...
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Hyperlinking SVGs
preprocess image edit and link text Inkscape prompt for rectangles inline SVG write about sketch Build up, drill down handwritten.blog sketch viewer Text and links from sketch Hyperlinking SVGs -...
View ArticleScaling a BigBlueButton server down to a 1 GB node between uses
Now that we've survived EmacsConf, I've been looking into running a BigBlueButton server so that various Emacs meetups can use it if they like instead of relying on Jitsi or other free...
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Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 29 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830...
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Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my...
While putting together some notes on how to use subed.el with auto-generated YouTube captions, I decided to get subed-word-data working with the Youtube VTT format. The sample file I downloaded from...
View Article2025-02-03 Emacs news
Help wanted: F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package. Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600...
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Help wanted: Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github) Re: Status of xwidgets support Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo)...
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Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin...
View Article2025-02-24 Emacs news
Emacs 30: Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml) Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml) What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN) J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1...
View ArticleWorking with smaller chunks of thoughts; adding anchors to paragraphs in Org...
Adding anchors to paragraphs Anchor links Text fragments I write my blog posts in Org Mode and export them to Eleventy with ox-11ty, which is derived from the ox-html backend. Sometimes I want to link...
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Emacs 30: Emacs 30 Now On Android (12:19) GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default (Reddit) Irreal: Emacs 30.1 Update Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):...
View ArticleGetting an Org link URL from a string; debugging regex groups
Sometimes I want to get the URL from a string whether the string contains a bare URL (https://example.com) or an Org bracketed link ([[https://example.com]] or [[https://example.com][Example]],...
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