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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...

Emacs 30: How to Get Started with Emacs 30.1 on Linux (@derdreschi85@mastodon.social) GNU Emacs 30.1 läuft auf Android (@hgdrn@nrw.social) Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #3 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/333236a9-d51f-4646-9630-4d42a820f1f0 Tue Mar 11 1900 CET Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Mar 14 1800 Europe/Paris M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Mar 19 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200...

Sometimes I want to get the URL from a string whether the string contains a bare URL (https://example.com) or an Org bracketed link ([[https://example.com]] or [[https://example.com][Example]], ignoring any extra non-link text (blah https://example.com blah blah). org-link-any-re seemed like the right regular expression to use, but I started to get a little dizzy looking at all the parenthesis and I couldn't figure out which matching...

Conscientiousness and me Noticing when my brain likes to do the work Supporting my brain Not far from the tree Growing Learning on my own and with others Over the past few days, I've been reflecting on the personality trait of conscientiousness, which is something that can be a bit of a struggle for me. From Wikipedia: Conscientiousness is the personality trait of being...

Emacs 30: Emacs 30 Now On Android (12:19) GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default (Reddit) Irreal: Emacs 30.1 Update Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore M-x Research: TBA...

2025-02-28-04 February 2025 -- monthly review Checking in with myself Where did I feel most energized this month? What activities drained me? What moments made me say "aha!" this month? Emoji summary Blog posts Sketches Text and links from sketch (, and) a list of emojis per day February 2025 field trips birthday music and art By day: 👀 looking ahead 💃 dance ✅...

I've had this iPad Air 13" for about two weeks now, and I'm slowly settling into how the different pieces of tech can work together and how things can flow. 2025-02-28-01 Getting used to SuperNote A5X and iPad Air 13 -- drawing supernote ipad tech Text from sketch Getting used to SuperNote A5X + iPad Air 13" SuperNote A5X: I prefer it for writing,...

A+ likes prompting Claude AI to generate funny kid-focused Star Wars fanfic mostly exploring how various characters might babysit Luke, Leia, and Grogu in a universe where Anakin did not fall to the Dark Side. This seems to be working out well. It encourages her to improvise stories even when we're off-screen, and it lets her play with small variations on ideas and quickly...

Adding anchors to paragraphs Anchor links Text fragments I write my blog posts in Org Mode and export them to Eleventy with ox-11ty, which is derived from the ox-html backend. Sometimes I want to link to something in a different blog post. This lets me build on thoughts that are part of a post instead of being a whole post on their own. If...

Emacs 30: Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml) Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml) What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN) J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1 released including which-key Tim Heaney: Emacs 30 What's New in Emacs? (Feb 2025) - System Crafters Live! (01:47:02) Rahul Juliato: Compiling Emacs 30.1 from the source on Debian Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin (hybrid,...

After our first informal field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario, I got my own 13" iPad Air so that I can play with digital painting beside A+. Using the same apps might make it easier for her to pick up ideas from me and for me to pick up ideas from her. We mostly draw in Procreate, and I'm starting to get...

2025-02-20-01 Productive procrastination -- productivity parenting.png Text from sketch Productive procrastination We are going to procrastinate. That's the way our brains like to work. No sense grumping about it, that'll just make it worse. We might as well get better at it This is a skill that takes practice, so try to learn when the stakes are low. Have a good idea of what...

I set up a BigBlueButton web conferencing server so that people can use it for Emacs meetups. To keep costs down, I want to resize it to 1 GB RAM 1 vCPU most of the time, and then resize it to 8 GB RAM 4 vCPU when there's a meetup. When it's at a proper size (4 CPUs), the Nginx web server should proxy...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630...

A+ asked me to take her on another informal field trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario to check out that special exhibit on modern art that we didn't have the energy for last time. I decided that was worth taking her out during a school afternoon. I figured there'd be plenty of time to catch up with schoolwork over the long weekend, and...

Help wanted: Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github) Re: Status of xwidgets support Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000...

A+'s class is working through a variety of assignments while reading through The Wild Robot. They've done chapter 1-11 so far. One of the assignments is to visualize things from the book, like sketching 6 things Roz has seen in nature so far. I figured I'd practise drawing too. 2025-02-06-01 Beaver, goose, squirrel, sparrow, flower, sheepdog, sheep -- drawing.png References: blue flower by NiklasErnst...

I want to get better at helping A+ learn more about art, and I want to learn more about art myself. She'll learn whatever she's ready to learn, but maybe I can help her get past the initial frustrations by breaking it down into smaller skills. As for me, there's plenty I can learn about seeing, getting stuff to look like what I'm seeing,...