hackers.town: 2022-02-28 Mon 09:40

The meeting proper ended half an hour ago. This ain’t a parking lot. It’s a tailgate party.

hackers.town: 2022-02-28 Mon 09:48

Just sighed a sufficiently deep sigh that the meeting app told me to unmute if I want to talk.

hackers.town: 2022-02-28 Mon 10:29

The most annoying thing about Hugo is how they keep adding awesome stuff just when I think I’m done with it forever.

Code block render hooks? Markdown diagrams?

The NERVE of those people.

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/releases/tag/v0.93.0

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 11:00

Looking at the amount of work some folks go to setting up Obsidian or Notion and TBH it’s comparable to the work done tweaking that perfect Emacs Org setup.

“Pretty” is a lot easier though.

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 11:04

@nixfreak Sure! Current config at http://randomgeekery.org/config/emacs/nano/

Keep in mind that Emacs isn’t my main editor, so there’s a lot of fumbling.

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 11:09

@nixfreak Oh it wasn’t too bad. I copied from nano-theme-light.el and adjusted for some reasonable Spaceduck colors.

https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs/blob/master/nano-theme-light.el

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 11:12

@nixfreak using nano-emacs for my base has been a fantastic learning opportunity. Complex enough to be interesting, but not overwhelmingly different from Emacs defaults (my big challenge trying to explore Doom config details).

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 11:16

@nixfreak Interesting! Straight on its own hasn’t been too rough for me, but I’ve got it hidden behind use-package so I don’t have to think about it much.

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 12:16

“No you’re a cliche. Now fetch me my catnip mouse, nerd.”

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 18:43

Trying out logseq-mermaid-plugin. It’s a plugin, that lets you do Mermaid diagrams, in Logseq.

Useful!

https://github.com/hkgnp/logseq-mermaid-plugin

(second screenshot is just tidied up in document mode with the source node collapsed)

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 19:19

The sequel is a buddy comedy.

hackers.town: 2022-02-27 Sun 20:38

Watching Lost in Space (2021) unspoiled. Saw Parker Posey show up onscreen and immediately knew which character she was playing.

hackers.town: 2022-02-25 Fri 09:16

Fell asleep around 1am. Loud Dog whined me out of bed at 5:30.

There will not be enough coffee today.

hackers.town: 2022-02-24 Thu 00:11

Having more fun with org-roam-ui. Grabbed some recent notes from other PKMs to fill in the graph a little.

Lots of fun fiddly settings. Oh and Org Mode headings show as nodes, so I get some of that hierarchical structure I like in Dendron’s graph.

hackers.town: 2022-02-24 Thu 22:31

Felt like a good day to pull up an old photo I like.

hackers.town: 2022-02-23 Wed 16:38

Doing an electrical safety course and one section has pictures of all the things to avoid and I’m wondering how they snuck into my house for the photos.

hackers.town: 2022-02-23 Wed 21:40

You ever take a nap and then get up and your brain feels like maybe you were sleeping on an exposed power cord or something?

uh yeah no me neither

hackers.town: 2022-02-23 Wed 22:48

Mental hook because they’re why uninformed USian me learned to recognize that Ukraine is not Russia.

#NowPlaying

Gogol Bordello — Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike

https://album.link/i/1456030431

hackers.town: 2022-02-23 Wed 23:05

Moments like these, when folks are having trouble focusing on the things they need to because they can’t stop focusing on news or other things that grab their brain and won’t let go, I remember Erik The Viking (1989)

hackers.town: 2022-02-22 Tue 17:56

Installed all these tools and workarounds for dealing with Jira and some jerk went and made our installation not awful WHAT UNMITIGATED GALL

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 04:49

time to go see if i can get the rest of my sleep

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 10:12

@nixfreak nano-emacs is a wildly different experience from Doom. Minimalist aesthetic, no additional libs needed, close to baseline Emacs functionality.

What I’ve done with it — well. It’s a learning experiment.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 10:14

@nixfreak If you’re curious, the core config for this nano-based setup is presented on my site. Updating roughly daily, as I apply changes.

http://randomgeekery.org/config/emacs/nano/

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 10:18

@nixfreak If I didn’t have the org mode layer to give me kind of a narrative context, I doubt I’d still be fiddling with this.

But yeah actually nano-emacs is a nice refined vanilla experience. French vanilla, not the nasty plain store brand stuff.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:37

@nixfreak Joplin’s a great choice! I’ve been having some sync issues so had to look elsewhere, bumped against nano-emacs screenshot, remembered Org mode, and that’s where I am today. For now.

also ADD yes why do you ask

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:40

@nixfreak Not in this config yet. Still going through some Org tutorials that focus on vanilla bindings.

Probably eventually though. One thing at a time. Or no more than half a dozen things at a time, anyways.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:41

@nixfreak that was intended as self-referential humor complementing your own admission but I typed too fast.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:44

@nixfreak Doom Emacs has some great evil bindings in place for Org, though again there are so many of them that the mode help is overwhelming.

Probably won’t be spending as much time in Doom while I’m figuring out this config workflow, but just as likely I’ll steal their bindings when it’s time for evil.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:51

@nixfreak @thegibson micro!

https://micro-editor.github.io

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:55

@nixfreak VS Code / Codium is its own entire world for sure. With the right plugins it’s downright useful!

(I always make sure to at least have Bookmarks, Dendron, and Gitlens installed when sitting in front of Code / Codium)

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:56

@nixfreak @thegibson Oooooh A SHINY THING

I heard about Light Table way way back but hadn’t kept up with it. This looks pretty interesting!

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 11:59

@nixfreak That’s why Dendron is there. Really interesting Personal Knowledge Management system, dangerously customizable, kind of arcane once you get past basic journaling.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 16:15

Using Emacs to work on something besides configuring Emacs.

Truly the dawn of a new era.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 22:33

Well the M1 is pretty zippy but it certainly doesn’t seem to apply system updates much quicker.

hackers.town: 2022-02-21 Mon 23:02

But the Emacs fiddling I’ve been doing the last few days works unmodified on the Mac so I’ve got that going for me — which is nice.

A lot of fiddling with Emacs today. Thought I’d try something not so much “vanilla” as on fewer predetermined rails than the average Doom Emacs config.

This new config starts from nano-emacs, a rather streamlined setup. Of course I enjoyed cluttering it up.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2022-02-19 Sat 18:13

Wait hang on I actually got a sort of spaceduck theme working with nano-emacs?

(that’s Doom Emacs with fairyfloss theme on the left)

Gonna need to update my site org-config.

hackers.town: 2022-02-19 Sat 22:42

Oh hey org-roam-ui is pretty slick.

Yeah my org-roam graph is tiny. I hadn’t really committed to it with Obsidian, Logseq, and Dendron right there.

But this is nice.

A lot of fiddling with Emacs today. Thought I’d try something not so much “vanilla” as on fewer predetermined rails than the average Doom Emacs config.

This new config starts from nano-emacs, a rather streamlined setup. Of course I enjoyed cluttering it up.

My NANO-based Emacs config

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2022-02-20 Sun 00:50

need to work on the tag munging component of my syndicator

hackers.town: 2022-02-20 Sun 12:36

Successfully did a thing. Time for food.

hackers.town: 2022-02-20 Sun 20:23

Lighting close enough we don’t even finish the “one” in “one Mississippi” before the thunder rolls.

hackers.town: 2022-02-20 Sun 23:14

It’s a lot less exciting here than in the work code I was just looking at — and clearly it’s having some aesthetic disagreements with nano-emacs — but holy forking shirtballs lsp-treemacs is nice.

Planned on playing computer games tonight. Guess technically I succeeded.

hackers.town: 2022-02-18 Fri 07:29

New Indian folk metal album. Goes well with Friday coffee.

#NowPlaying

Bloodywood — Rakshak

https://bloodywood.bandcamp.com/album/rakshak

hackers.town: 2022-02-18 Fri 08:01

I tell you what though. Trying to get MyPy, language servers, and everything else playing nice with a Python project is a pretty rough contrast to TypeScript.

hackers.town: 2022-02-18 Fri 15:46

Spent like an hour futzing with a Rich formatter for Prospector’s linting report and then realized rich.print(output) ticked all the boxes I need.

Fun hour, though.

hackers.town: 2022-02-18 Fri 15:47

SEATTLE WEATHER UPDATE

WHAT ARE YOU DOING

THE ANGRY SKY GOD IS LOOKING RIGHT AT YOU

GET BACK INSIDE UNTIL THE SKY BLANKET RETURNS