Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2020-02-28

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Emacs refresh-package-contents

Tried adding Evil to Emacs with 2019-11-09 Emacs use-package. Didn’t work.

Didn’t write the error message down, of course. Something about MELPA looking for a package version from two months ago and deciding the package was “Not Found”.

Eventually figured out I need to run package-refresh-contents, which grabs the latest package listings. Might be overkill to run that automatically in every Emacs session, so I won’t add it to my .emacs.

I will add a comment though.

Code Sample
    ;; Package not installing?
;;  Try 'M-x package-refresh-contents'

(require 'package)
  

Hopefully I remember to read my own comments.

Or the evil documentation.

2020-04-29

john sj anderson wrote a post expanding on a suggestionto use advising functions.

Activity Log

Twitter: 2020-02-28 Fri 00:00

Realizing my self-talk is harsher than it needs to be, considering that I’ve gotten 6+ hours of sleep maybe four nights of the last eight months. Thank you, straight pipe douchemobile dudes.

Well. Time for white noise, headphones, and sleep meds. Trying for 6+ tonight.

Twitter: 2020-02-28 Fri 12:38

“everything is on fire but somehow it works” is yet another perl ecosystem feature that more folks could learn from

glad js got it

https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1233472548236476417

Twitter: 2020-02-28 Fri 12:40

deploying and maintaining a perl project, in gif form https://t.co/oAn3YDuNCP

hackers.town: 2020-02-28 Fri 13:52

Mrs Geek reserved us a couple sessions in those relaxation float thing which is excellent except have I just committed to sitting still for an entire hour oh god

also?

Avoid caffeine the day of your float to enhance your float experience.

oh god

me, finishing the last of the pot of coffee as I read that I should have avoided caffeine today

“ha ha no”

hackers.town: 2020-02-28 Fri 21:19

60 minute float session. I lasted about 15 minutes. Then someone tried to call, my fingerprint unlock didn’t work, I forgot my passcode, got locked out of my phone, anxiety spiked, so I got out and read a book for 45 minutes.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

5 stars would float again.