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Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May...

The IndieWeb writing prompt for April 2025 is renewal. One of the things that I struggled with in the early days of parenting was the repetitive nature of my day. Every two- or three-hour cycle brought the same kinds of tasks: nursing, diapers, snuggles, sleep. Nothing could be crossed off a to-do list, nothing stayed done. Nothing built up towards tangible accomplishment, or at...

Assumed audience: I'm writing this for: me: I want to remember what this is like, celebrate my progress so far, and look ahead maybe other parents who also find themselves still figuring out playfulness Achievement unlocked: I made A+ giggle so much that she started hiccuping She had had a case of the meh​s. After a little bit of empathizing, I flung myself over...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore Upcoming events:...

I enjoyed walking in the park this week, and we started gardening too. Good counterbalance to the chaos of whatever the US is doing. I also enjoyed writing more about life. I added sidenotes duplicated as footnotes to my blog, inspired by citationneeded.news. The sidenotes should show up on my blog if you have Javascript enabled and the window is reasonably wide. I like...

2025-04-10-01 A typical weekday -- life Text and links from sketch A typical weekday family time: 11/16 hours, me time: 5/16 hours 7 AM: Morning routines 8 AM: piano practice 9 AM: gardening, recess 10 AM: Walk, braindump 11 AM: Lunch 12 PM: focus time: code, write, draw, read, do stuff 1 PM: tidying, recess 2 PM: writing, hanging out with A+ 3 PM:...

Trawling through blogs to add to my feed reader, I came across a number of posts related to the February 2025 IndieWeb Carnival theme of affirmations. It nudged me to think about the words I rub into A+'s brain with repetition. Once a year or so, A+'s virtual school teachers typically play a video about affirmations as part of the social-emotional learning aspect of...

Assumed audience: Future me, when mango freezies are a distant memory Maybe other parents who might consider splurging on fruits We have two cases of mangoes on our kitchen counter: the last case of Ataulfo mangoes W- could find at the Nations supermarket a short bike-ride away from the house (slightly underripe at purchase; it's been a few days, so now A+ says they're...

Help wanted: Re: Safe evaluation of macros (was: bug#77341: [PATCH] ; (find-function- - looking for volunteers to help improve trusted-content on Windows Emacs 30: The new JSON parser is fast Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Apr 11 1800 Europe/Paris M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Apr 16 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT...

Thanks to Pictionary, we caught up with all the illustrations that A+ needed to do for her homework. I tweaked my blog navigation and headings. I also exported the comments from Disqus and took it off my site. I got rid of some clutter. Blog posts Adding subheadings and sketches to my blog page navigation Using Emacs Lisp to batch-demote HTML headings for my...

Assumed audience: My future self, when I'm trying to figure out where to change things if I want to implement something similar People who like tweaking their blog's CSS, especially if they also use Org Mode or 11ty Headings help us make sense of longer blog posts. Heading links are like signposts letting you know what's ahead and where you can take a shortcut...

Assumed audience: People who have lots of HTML files used as input for a static site generator, might need to do a batch operation on them, and are open to doing that with Emacs Lisp. Which might just be me, but who knows? =) HTML defines a hierarchy of headings going from <h1> to <h6>, which comes in especially handy when people are navigating...

Summary Blog posts Sketches Time Ideas for next month [2025-04-02 Wed]: Added emoji summary. Summary March 2025: 🔥🎵🥧🍎✏️⛸️📰😴⏲️🍕🖨️🏝️🎮📚🎵🎮🐒🦷👥🧁🏺💭📺🐟🚲☕🧁🥾🌧️📝🛒 2025-03-31-05 March 2025 -- monthly review.jpeg Text from sketch March 2025: decrease fretting, increase experiments, field trips, self-efficacy 🔥 campfire 🎵 Minecraft & singing 🥧 peach pie 🍎 apples & marshmallows ✏️ doodling ⛸️ skating in the wind 📰 RSS, thoughts on reading 😴 tired kids...

Emacs 30: TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: Emacs 30.1 so far Help wanted: Show your post-command-hook contents to help Emacs core Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 1 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306712497/ Wed...

Exploring my disqus.xml with xq, Org Babel, and seaborn Deleting spam comments via the Disqus web interface and Spookfox Modifying eleventy-import-disqus for my site Next steps Assumed audience: Technical bloggers who like: static site generators: this post is about moving more things into my SSG XML: check out the mention of xq, which offers a jq-like interface or Org Mode: some notes here about...

I've been practising fretting less about homework. I added an On this day page to my blog. (blog post about it) I added Mastodon links to my blog. I think the process will be: post the blog post; toot to Mastodon; edit the blog post and republish. I might be able to save time and just copy over the blog post during the first...

Defining shortcuts in org-speed-commands is handy because you can use these single-key shortcuts at the beginning of a subtree. With a little modification, they'll also work at the beginning of list items. (defun my-org-use-speed-commands-for-headings-and-lists () "Activate speed commands on list items too." (or (and (looking-at org-outline-regexp) (looking-back "^\**" nil)) (save-excursion (and (looking-at (org-item-re)) (looking-back "^[ \t]*" nil))))) (setq org-use-speed-commands 'my-org-use-speed-commands-for-headings-and-lists) I want k to...

One of the things I like about blogging from Org Mode in Emacs is that it's easy to add properties to the section that I'm working on and then use those property values elsewhere. For example, I've modified Emacs to simplify tooting a link to my blog post and saving the Mastodon status URL in the EXPORT_MASTODON property. Then I can use that in...

2025-03-26-01 Feline feelings -- drawing emotions Feel free to use this under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Text from sketch Feline feelings sachachua.com/2025-03-26-01 happy playful content interested proud accepted powerful peaceful trusting optimistic surprised startled confused amazed excited bad tired busy stressed bored fearful scared anxious weak rejected insecure threatened angry let down humiliated bitter mad aggressive frustrated distant critical disgusted disapproving disappointed awful...

Sometimes I want to copy a toot and include it in my Org Mode notes, like when I post a thought and then want to flesh it out into a blog post. This code defines my-mastodon-org-copy-toot-content, which converts the toot text to Org Mode format using Pandoc and puts it in the kill ring so I can yank it somewhere else. (defun my-mastodon-toot-at-url (&optional...

I sometimes want to thank a bunch of people for contributing to a Mastodon conversation. The following code lets me collect handles in a single kill ring entry by calling it with my point over a handle or a toot, or with an active region. (defvar my-mastodon-handle "@sacha@social.sachachua.com") (defun my-mastodon-copy-handle (&optional start-new beg end) "Append Mastodon handles to the kill ring. Use the handle...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Mar 26 1030 America/Vancouver - 1230 America/Chicago - 1330 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 27 0130 Asia/Singapore Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Apr 1 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin -...

I often want to copy the toot URL after posting a new toot about a blog post so that I can update the blog post with it. Since I post from Emacs using mastodon.el, I can probably figure out how to get the URL after tooting. A quick-and-dirty way is to retrieve the latest status. (defvar my-mastodon-toot-posted-hook nil "Called with the item.") (defun my-mastodon-copy-toot-url...

Nudged by org-daily-reflection (@emacsomancer's toot) and Jeremy Keith's post where he mentions his on this day page, I finally got around to making my own on this day page again. I use the 11ty static site generator, so it's static unless you have Javascript enabled. It might be good for bumping into things. I used to have an "On this day" widget back when...