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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...

2025-03-22-02 Stick figure out feelings -- drawing emotions.svg Feel free to use or remix these stick figures under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Text and links from sketch Stick figure out feelings https://sachachua.com/2025-03-22-02 Feelings wheel by Geoffrey Roberts, stick figures by Sacha Chua and the kiddo happy playful content interested proud accepted powerful peaceful trusting optimistic surprised startled confused amazed excited bad tired busy...

Some walking, some writing, some Emacs tweaking. A+ and I went to a pottery wheel workshop. That was nice. My eyes have been dry lately, so I've been using eye drops. Blog posts Visual book notes: ADHD is Awesome - Penn and Kim Holderness (2024) (toot) Old-school blogger (toot) Playing with chunk size when writing (toot) Reading more blogs; Emacs Lisp: Listing blogs based...

2025-03-20-01 ADHD is Awesome #visual-book-notes #adhd (Feel free to use or share this under the Creative Commons Attribution license!) Text and links from sketch ADHD is Awesome - Penn and Kim Holderness (2024) sachachua.com/2025-03-20-01 Notes: Ch 1: ADHD 101 Ch 2: Diagnosis Ch 3: Inside the ADHD brain all-in or completely off dopamine Great at paying attention, terrible at choosing what pay attention to...

2025-03-16-01 Old-school blogger -- blogging writing Text from sketch Old-school blogger [timeline showing different strands braided together] I started blogging in 2001 (really, more like 2002), as a university student who had started playing around enjoyed learning out loud. Both blogging and Emacs continued through: teaching computer science going on a technical internship in Japan taking up graduate studies working at IBM experimenting with...

How long is a blog post? Some people write short posts with one clear thought. Others write longer essays. I tend to start out writing a short post and then get distracted by all the rabbit-holes I want to go down. Drafting my thoughts on blogging leads to adding lots of blogs to my reader, writing some code that takes an OPML and makes...

Nudged by Dave Winer's post about old-school bloggers and my now-nicely-synchronizing setup of NetNewsWire (iOS) and FreshRSS (web), I gave Claude AI this prompt to list bloggers (with the addition of "Please include URLs and short bios.") and had fun going through the list it produced. A number of people were no longer blogging (unreachable sites or inactive blogs), but I found a few...

I usually summarize Mastodon links, move them to my Emacs News Org file, and then categorize them. Today I accidentically categorized the links while they were still in my Mastodon buffer, so I had two lists with categories. I wanted to write some Emacs Lisp to merge sublists based on the top-level items. I could sort the list alphabetically with C-c ^ (org-sort) and...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Mar 20 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Mar 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630...

Pedro pointed out that I had some incomplete clock entries in my Emacs configuration. org-resolve-clocks prompts you for what to do with each open clock entry in your Org agenda files and whatever Org Mode files you have open. If you don't feel like cancelling each clock with C, I also wrote this function to delete all open clocks in the current file. (defun...