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"The history of #Emacs completion frameworks is a progression from monolithic solutions toward composable ones."
This is a comprehensive summary, with a thorough and fair history. A long read, but worth it.
I plateaued at #Vertico #Orderless #Marginalia #Consult years ago. Maybe time to learn the others, one at a time.
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"The history of #Emacs completion frameworks is a progression from monolithic solutions toward composable ones."
This is a comprehensive summary, with a thorough and fair history. A long read, but worth it.
I plateaued at #Vertico #Orderless #Marginalia #Consult years ago. Maybe time to learn the others, one at a time.
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@da_667 C. Wright Mills is worth everyone's time. Lucid prose, dense with insights. He named these social pathologies in the 1950s. "Crackpot realism." "Institutional irresponsibility."
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@da_667 C. Wright Mills is worth everyone's time. Lucid prose, dense with insights. He named these social pathologies in the 1950s. "Crackpot realism." "Institutional irresponsibility."
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@da_667 C. Wright Mills is worth everyone's time. Lucid prose, dense with insights. He named these social pathologies in the 1950s. "Crackpot realism." "Institutional irresponsibility."
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@da_667 C. Wright Mills is worth everyone's time. Lucid prose, dense with insights. He named these social pathologies in the 1950s. "Crackpot realism." "Institutional irresponsibility."
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@da_667 C. Wright Mills is worth everyone's time. Lucid prose, dense with insights. He named these social pathologies in the 1950s. "Crackpot realism." "Institutional irresponsibility."
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Some interesting ideas from @publicvoit. I'm stealing the "Share on Mastodon" link idea.
"Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)"
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Some interesting ideas from @publicvoit. I'm stealing the "Share on Mastodon" link idea.
"Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)"
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Some interesting ideas from @publicvoit. I'm stealing the "Share on Mastodon" link idea.
"Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)"
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Some interesting ideas from @publicvoit. I'm stealing the "Share on Mastodon" link idea.
"Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)"
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Some interesting ideas from @publicvoit. I'm stealing the "Share on Mastodon" link idea.
"Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)"
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@wirthy The org-static-blog package is very well done. Simple, robust, transparently legible, thus easily extensible. If you want a place to start blogging from #Emacs, it is a very solid foundation.
Not a coincidence that it has been more visible on #fediverse chatter lately.
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The Scratching Post, Lewisburg PA. A "cat cafe" where you pay a modest admission donation to visit kitties, and take the gamble that you can leave without adopting one. Over a thousand successful adoptions.
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@publicvoit Good heavens, backups and version control have saved me so many times. The effort required to cultivate good hygiene is not zero, but the return is so huge!
That's why they call it porcelain and plumbing! #dadjoke #nerddad
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NERD DAD FRIDAY NIGHT WITH @greg
If I'm honest, there's a bit of faffing around to get #mu4e configured (see footnote¹). But golly, it sure is worth it.
Just being able to compose emails natively in #Emacs is very OHHHHHHhhhhh **THAT** FEELS BETTER
and then being able to capture Org tasks that link to messages is very UNLIMITED POWER!!!! (see figure)
and then over the next couple years gradually smoothing and polishing your email workflow with little customizations just exactly for little old you is very [wildebeest-levitating-in-blissful-meditation]
If I were to presume to provide advice it would be: consider it a gradual transition, and resolve to savor the process and enjoy each incremental improvement.
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¹There's a separate binary, which requires a separate quirky compile-from-source installation and configuration. Like most Emacs mail clients, it relies on mbsync to sync local copies with your IMAP server. And then there are countless quirks in its UI, endlessly customizable in the good/bad way to which we are all accustomed. -
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pymander/116381801119625280
Amen, brother! In #mu4e under #Emacs "The ability to write custom code to both process and create email is extremely powerful and a great time saver."
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(setq org-startup-folded t) makes Org files open with all headlines folded, my attention-deficient preference.
But then diffs are hidden when comparing Org files with ediff! Here is my ediff config:
(use-package ediff
:custom
(ediff-split-window-function 'split-window-horizontally)
(ediff-window-setup-function 'ediff-setup-windows-plain)
:hook
;;; Start Org files in maximally-unfolded view
(ediff-prepare-buffer . #'outline-show-all)) -
I love #Sourcehut. Sad to see them under coordinated prolonged DDoS attack. Infuriating.
Reminder to eat your vegetables, back up your data, and mirror your repos to #Codeberg and bare repos on your own cheap VPS somewhere
But definitely not GitHub booooo BOOOOOO
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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?
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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?
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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?
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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?
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Who else is old enough to remember Jessica Lynch?
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@pkal Sorry! Let's try it this way. NEW BLOG POST: "My first advice! (in Emacs Lisp)"
https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-04-04-my-first-advice-in-emacs-lisp.html
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Feeling gratitude towards this community. Just wrote my first #emacslisp advice ever.
(advice-add #'package-function-has-no-hook :before #'my-little-hook-function)
A small thing, but it removes friction from my org-static-blog (recommended!) workflow.
These little steps forward are what make this hobby so much fun. And—you'll just have to believe me—the confidence to bork around like this comes from being part of this community.
[EDIT: broken link removed; see thread]
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UPDATED BLOG POST: Finally tracked down and fixed a little bug in "Custom sorting of mu4e headers"
https://jamesendreshowell.com/2026-01-08-custom-sorting-of-mu4e-headers.html
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@davep/116341198726756217
TIL: defconst and defvar do not set a value if the symbol is already bound to a value. Which makes sense, but would confuse an unsuspecting goober who might be REPLing their way around a buffer making changes.
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In the #nineties in #Pittsburgh #Pennsylvania my housemates and I ate for a month on a $100 grocery bill. One hundred dollars US per month, split four ways. Lots of beans and rice, lots of pasta and vegetables. We weren't vegan, we were just poor.
Oh, and rent was $1000 a month, split four ways.
I paid taxes on $6,000–$7,000 a year those years. It was a frugal life, but comfortable and fulfilling. Not at all degrading.
We did not know how good we had it.