Random Geekery
Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life
A mix of yarn projects, drawings, and geeky notes, put together by Brian Wisti. This site gives you a rough idea what I am doing now and what interested me over the last several years. You can always follow me online if that is your thing.
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Jan 18, 2020 at 10:44 am
That thing where you're doing a thing but need to look up something and get an idea and start a thing but need a thing and you notice a thing and get an idea and start a thing and you notice a thing…
Is that an ADHD thing? That sounds like an ADHD thing.
Recent Posts
A Quick Notes Script for Taskwarrior
Jan 12, 2020 (Updated Jan 13, 2020)
Programming · taskwarrior · python ·
I need more than annotations for my Taskwarrior tasks. Let's write some Python!
Jan 1, 2020
TL;DR: Use
C-x C-=,C-x C--, andC-x C-0to scale text on the fly in your Emacs buffer.Dec 27, 2019
Programming · perl · python · DWIM ·
Moshe Zadka has been writing a mostly excellent exploration of the Zen of Python for Opensource.com. Not sure I approve of this take on guessing, from The importance of consistency in your Python code: What should the result of 1 + “1” be? Both “11” and 2 would be valid guesses. This expression is ambiguous: there is no single thing it can do that would not be a surprise to at least some people.
Installing Emacs Documentation on POP!_os
Dec 1, 2019 (Updated Dec 1, 2019)
Tools · emacs · linux · info ·
Apt spells “emacs core docs” as “emacs-common-non-dfsg”.