#YayEmacs 9: Trimming/adding silences to get to a target; subed-record-sum-time

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,"...

For the longest time, planet.emacslife.com was generated with the Planet Venus aggregator, which required Python 2.7. My recent blog post about Yay Emacs 8: which-key-replacement-alist had some emojis that the parser couldn't handle, though (unichr() arg not in range(0x10000) (narrow Python build)). I decided to rewrite the aggregator using...

2025-01-14-01 Looking ahead – parenting planning skills Text from sketch A+ is 8 years old. We're letting her be part of managing more things for her future self, like keeping track of when we're running low on her laundry or her favourite yogurt or toilet paper under the sink. She doesn't always get it right, but then...

Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #1 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/cb726f44-8b7f-44f7-91a5-fc9d3f9ad7a9 Tue Jan 14 1900 CET Talk by Andrew Tropin - Arei/Ares: A modern, extensible IDE for Guile Scheme https://www.meetup.com/guix-social/events/304634420/ Thu Jan 16 1000 America/Vancouver -...

One of the challenges with digital notes is that it's hard to get a sense of volume, of mass, of accumulation. Especially with Org Mode, everything gets folded away so neatly and I can jump around so readily with C-c j (org-goto) or C-u C-c C-w (org-refile) that I often don't stumble across the sorts of things I might encounter in a physical...