I have a dumb #Emacs #OrgMode question. I think I have org-list-automatic-rules set correctly, but when I M-RET in a checklist, my new list item does not include a checkbox. How can I debug this?
04.08.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@thomas What artistic genius made these? I love them!
01.08.2025 00:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Forgot a favorite. #pdx
31.07.2025 23:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dang, programming in #GoLang can be so verbose. I do appreciate Go's static typing, and I appreciate (kind of) how its interfaces work. But it really makes building web applications tricky. I've been using Go for about 8 years now and I keep feeling like I'm missing some important advanced […]
30.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I got harper-ls working with #OrgMode in #Emacs and it seems to be working pretty well.
16.07.2025 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An observation
Go programs make a lot more sense if you pronounce `if err != nil` as “inshallah”.
From Joe Marshall's blog on Planet Lisp:
'Go programs make a lot more sense if you pronounce `if err != nil` as "inshallah".'
http://funcall.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-observation.html
#go #lisp #programming
11.07.2025 03:37 — 👍 0 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Nieman: Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
"The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that #Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic"
https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/
10.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Writing Experience (Emacs Carnival)
This is my contribution to month two of Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival. The topic this month is “Writing Experience,” which is perfect, since I write in Emacs all the time. In fact, I am writing this blog post in Emacs right now!
## Emacs Writing History
I do not know how long I have been writing in Emacs, but I have documents written in LaTeX from the early 2000s that were definitely written in Emacs, and I know those weren’t the first. I guess what is interesting about my writing experience in Emacs is how it has developed over the years. Where I originally wrote everything in plain text or LaTeX, over time I moved to org-mode and Markdown.
Writing LaTeX in Emacs taught me to view documents and writing the same way I view source code. Since all of my writing was in text formats, I could easily use version control software to store archives full of text. I began by using Concurrent Versions System (CVS), but eventually moved to Git. I have a few Git repositories with writing, but my biggest dates back to 2009. Those early commits are all LaTeX and plain text files.
commit c64500897e2509bc3316d252cda10a9119384933
Author: Erik L. Arneson <pXXX@XXX.XXX>
Date: Sat Dec 5 10:51:06 2009 -0800
Initial import of an old repository.
The oldest org-mode file in my writing repository dates to December 27th, 2010, and is titled “Beer and Pizza.” The commit message indicates that I pulled some writing over from another repository in this commit, so obviously I had been writing with org-mode for quite a while. I know, for instance, that “Beer and Pizza” was an article that I wrote for an early incarnation of Southern Oregon Magazine, and my notes are dated back to February of that year.
## Org-mode Is A Life-changer
You have probably read other people’s experience with writing in org-mode in Emacs, so instead of sharing an exhausting list of all the life-changing, writing-improving things that it has brought me, here are a few bits that I really love about it.
**It is fantastic at organizing writing projects.** From being able to shift around headings and blocks of text, to combining to-do lists with writing projects, to being able to create macros and include different files—all of these things make org-mode perfect for working on medium and large projects. I write everything from blog posts to podcast scripts to _books_ in org-mode, and it helps me stay organized.
**I do not have to write in Word or Google Docs.** The export functions in org-mode do a great job creating Word files, ODT files, HTML files, and all kinds of formats. If org-mode’s export abilities aren’t good enough, it can also interface with pandoc to cover all the other cases! This means I get to use all of my familiar tools and processes when writing, and I don’t have to worry about awful word processing software!
**Everything I need to write can happen in org-mode!** I have several websites that are built entirely out of org-mode. When I need to create slides for a lecture, I do it in org-mode. When I write adventures for Dungeons & Dragons, I do it in org-mode. When I need to whip up a spreadsheet to handle my household budget, I do it in org-mode. When I need to write a formal letter, I do it in org-mode. Frankly, it is so expressive and flexible, that I don’t need to use other tools for writing. It’s all Emacs and org-mode.
## Emacs Can Be Distraction-Free
I have a hotkey connected to writeroom-mode, which plonks me right into a full-screen, distraction-free writing mode. Easy as pie! This means that when I really need to get down to business and get a lot of writing done, I don’t need to switch to a new app, leave my familiar tools behind, or go through any extra trouble. It’s just right here, built in.
## No Going Back
I’ve been writing with Emacs for decades. It is my comfortable writing spot. I honestly cannot see myself abandoning it for another writing tool, because it works for me. I just used a couple of commands to check my two biggest writing repositories, and I have approximately 500,000 words written in org-mode between them. That’s a commitment!
I am aware that there are a lot of people out there using Emacs for writing, so I am excited to see what others share. I’m very pleased with Greg Newman’s choice for this second writing topic.
I wrote a new blog post about #writing and #emacs! It is intended to be part of @greg's #EmacsCarnival. https://arnesonium.com/2025/07/writing-experience-emacs-carnival
07.07.2025 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@briankrebs Thanks, that's a good tip to remember!
01.07.2025 14:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You're not #literate #coding ? WHAT!!? That is the REAL #VibeCoding !! Load up #emacs in org mode, which a bunch of custom snippets, a cup of nice coffee and PLAY! :D I love it. It's like a sketchpad. I'm doing alot of it in #clojure which is so fun.
24.06.2025 00:43 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on retro.social
Reminder that if you like a website you should probably click on the "contact" link and tell the author you like their website
🐰 Oh I bet they get lots of email every day saying their website is cool, I'd just annoy them
🦝 Nope. I have a donations button and I'm not exaggerating when I say it […]
07.06.2025 16:03 — 👍 11 🔁 75 💬 5 📌 0
Original post on fosstodon.org
In the latest episode of the Smelly Pirate Content Creation Show, each of us brought a surprise topic. Joel talked about authenticity, Karl talked about marketing and social media, and I talked about stumbling upon areas of ignorance. It was a blast! We all had to be pretty quick on our feet […]
06.06.2025 17:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hello new toys!
04.06.2025 13:52 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
I need to find a #WordPress hosting provider that allows the upload of custom themes. I'd like to avoid Wordpress.com because they are very expensive. What do y'all use?
02.06.2025 20:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I hope that #LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver renames the #ErieSeaWolves to something having to do with the #ErieCanal. I think the canal is cool. #canals #baseball
(This has been an absurd combination of hashtags.)
20.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I would like an #Emacs sticker for my #keytar.
16.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is such a bummer! Next Adventure, the coolest outdoor store in Portland, is closing later this year. https://www.axios.com/local/portland/2025/05/12/next-adventure-closing-stores-portland?stream=top
#PDX #Oregon
13.05.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Okay, Greyhound hasn't totally collapsed, but they have enshittified themselves past the point of usefulness in Oregon.
12.05.2025 13:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can't find any sort of bus or shuttle service to Roseburg, Oregon. It used to have a #Greyhound stop, but since that company collapsed, nothing has filled the gap. I hope I'm missing something. Any #Oregon people know? #travel
12.05.2025 13:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
the base of a massive spruce
an alder growing out of a gravel bar in the Hoh River, reflected in an eddy pool
a row of peaks in the Olympics, covered in mist and old growth spruces, cedars, and firs
Hoh Rainforest access reopened Thursday
I'm up here on a job and it's good to visit with some old friends
some very very old friends
12.05.2025 02:33 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I have been learning how to use #DaVinciResolve to edit videos. It is pretty fun, easier than other video editing stuff I have used before. I am looking forward to sharing some weird #video stuff with y'all!
09.05.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I've got a #podcast project about #AdventureTime, the cartoon. We had to take a break recently because everything kept interfering with our recording. In fact, we called this episode the Cursed Episode, because it took SO LONG to finish. But here it is!! […]
01.05.2025 22:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beer on Board in the Age of Sail (2017)
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I didn't realize there was so much overlap between the history of #beer and the history of #sailing. Who knew that beer helped ward off scurvy? #history https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2017/08/02/beer-board-age-sail/
01.05.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tired: Teachers using tools to find students cheating with AI.
Wired: Teachers using tools to figure out how many of their new students are bots who are just there to submit enough AI-completed assignments that they can claim financial aid in someone else's name.
This story from the Voice of […]
18.04.2025 12:12 — 👍 35 🔁 155 💬 10 📌 2
There is a lot of pollen in #PDX today, and boy are my sinuses feeling it. #allergies
16.04.2025 17:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Pi Day! #PiDay
14.03.2025 21:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@laotang Oh, I'm not any! It was nothing your code did. It was elfeed-db-compact that messed things up!
12.03.2025 22:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
