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2025-01-27 Emacs news
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Playing Minecraft parkour together
30 Jan 2025 |
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A+ eight years old and she won't always want to play with me, so while I can, we play together. Lately, she's been interested in Minecraft parkour maps. I remember when parkour was too frustrating for us to do. In the beginning, I felt my stomach flip every time I fell. I kept having to tell myself that I wasn't the one actually falling. When we...
Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my intuition
28 Jan 2025 |
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While putting together some notes on how to use subed.el with auto-generated YouTube captions, I decided to get subed-word-data working with the Youtube VTT format. The sample file I downloaded from one of my YouTube videos had a cue whose text started with a blank line, so I ended up redoing the way subed-vtt.el parsed cues. Twice, actually. The...
Scaling a BigBlueButton server down to a 1 GB node between uses
23 Jan 2025 |
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Now that we've survived EmacsConf, I've been looking into running a BigBlueButton server so that various Emacs meetups can use it if they like instead of relying on Jitsi or other free video-conferencing services. (I spent some time looking into Galene, but I'm not quite sure that's ready for our uses yet, like this issue that LibrePlanet ran...
Controlling my Android phone by voice
22 Jan 2025 |
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I want to be able to use voice control to do things on my phone while I'm busy washing dishes, putting things away, knitting, or just keeping my hands warm. It'll also be handy to have a way to get things out of my head when the kiddo is koala-ing me. I've been using my Google Pixel 8's voice interface to set timers, send text messages, and do...
Minecraft tree orbs, tree farm upgrade
17 Jan 2025 |
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A+ was inspired by the SapWing villages from Wings of Fire to make a couple of orb houses up in the trees. Figure 1: A+'s latest creation: tree orbs I think she used copycat blocks and vertical slabs from the modpack in order to get it to look so round. "I'm excellent at creating things that are not supposed to exist in Minecraft, in Minecraft,"...