Weekly review: Two weeks ending December 11, 2024
More from Sacha Chua
The videos have been uploaded, thank-you notes have been sent, and the kiddo has decided to play a little Minecraft on her own, so now I get to write some quick notes on EmacsConf 2024. Stats Timeline Data Communication Schedule Recorded videos Recorded introductions Captioning BigBlueButton web conference Tech checks and hosting Streaming...
I came across Ruby Video on Hacker News and thought it was a good idea, particularly the topic view. I mentioned it in a toot and that seemed to strike a chord in the #emacs community there, so I exported some of the metadata for EmacsConf videos into an Org Mode file. @xenodium whipped up a quick web prototype at emacs.tv. I added a bunch of...
Help wanted: Org Mode requests: [FR] Allow SPC to scroll todo/tag selection menu - for users with huge accessible fonts (was: Transient: accessibility problems for users who need to use large fonts) Emacs updates: Emacs 30.0.93 pretest is available (Reddit, Irreal) Emacs 31 News Stream VOD (01:26:53) Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs Berlin...
When subtitle times are too far off from the video or audio, people start worrying if their video has frozen or jumped ahead. It's good to keep subtitles roughly in time with the audio. For EmacsConf, we can get timing information from two places. WhisperX produces a JSON file with word data in the process of doing the speech recognition, and the...
Help wanted: Org Mode requests: [RFC] The best way to choose an "action" at point: context-menu-mode, transient, which-key or embark? (was: Fwd: Org-cite: Replace basic follow-processor with transient menu?) also on emacs-devel Org Mode requests: [TASK] Documenting ob-fortran, ob-forth, ob-sed, ob-ocaml, ob-ruby, and ob-sass (was: [TASK] Move...