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Show HN: Shazam.el(yummymelon.com)
2 points by kickingvegas 23d ago|0 comments
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now-playing.el, an Emacs interface to the macOS Music app(yummymelon.com)
1 points by kickingvegas 1mo ago|0 comments
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
Sure. My reference to BIBO borrows the idea from control theory that if you put bounds on your input, your output will likewise be bounded given your system is BIBO-stable. Applying this to software, if you constrain the range of input to v
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
Wasn't aware of org-sync until now. That said for my use case I still would not use it as I didn't want to setup another GH authentication token for another client. YMMV.
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing this! You are a legend!
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
Seeing how much functionality I could get from just 400 LoC was one of the motivations for writing this post.
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
Short answer, yes I am a Mac guy. AFAIK, both AppleScript and Shortcuts/Intents are mechanisms Apple has provided to support orchestration between apps. I do not consider them “malleable computing” mechanisms as they do not allow for a
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
NGL, whenever I work with Cocoa APIs, I wistfully think of another timeline where we get a system-level SmallTalk style REPL and ecosystem accessing all of it.
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
OP here. Happy to answer any questions about my post in this thread.
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Malleable computing, Emacs, and you(yummymelon.com)
159 points by kickingvegas 2mo ago|55 comments
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
OP here. This post resonated far more than expected. Thanks all for the feedback!
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by kickingvegas 2mo ago
In retrospect, the name `emacsclient` was a poor one because in 2026 most folks new to Emacs expect it to act like a REST client, where runtime state is synchronized between the client and server over a network. Emacs' usage of ‘client
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In Emacs, everything looks like a service(yummymelon.com)
261 points by kickingvegas 2mo ago|117 comments
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by kickingvegas 3mo ago
For your consideration, two Elisp packages I've written that focus on feature discoverability and use: Casual and Anju, both available from MELPA. You can read more about them at the following links: https://github.com&#x2F
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by kickingvegas 3mo ago
NGL, I find the Dired UX out of the box to be frustrating given its reliance on remembering key bindings, so much so that I ended up writing both a Transient menu and a context menu for it, both available in the Casual and Anju packages on
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by kickingvegas 4mo ago
Same. HP should sell a replacement battery door. (Edited) Actually it's not so much the door but the housing.
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by kickingvegas 4mo ago
After seeing a video of the Canon Cat in action, I thought “so, this is a lot like Emacs”.
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by kickingvegas 4mo ago
Oh dang, thanks for catching that. Will amend.
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by kickingvegas 4mo ago
Perhaps related, I'm maintaining a "cheatsheet" to let Python programmers see what an Elisp equivalent to typical Python functions/methods are. https://kickingvegas.github.io/elisp-for-python/
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by kickingvegas 7mo ago
NGL, Worg is terrible at explaining what it does and what it is for. And this sentiment is coming from someone who uses Org mode daily and has contributed to Worg.
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Casual Org(yummymelon.com)
1 points by kickingvegas 7mo ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Funding Free Software Development(yummymelon.com)
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Casual Ediff(yummymelon.com)
2 points by kickingvegas 11mo ago|1 comments
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by kickingvegas 11mo ago
Announcing Casual Ediff, with enhancements to support viewing changes to a version-controlled file and to resolve merge conflicts from Emacs.
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by kickingvegas 11mo ago
FWIW, I started a project last year to build Transient menus for major Emacs modes called “Casual” to address discoverability. Interested readers can find more info about it here: https://kickingvegas.github.io/casual/
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Casual BibTeX(yummymelon.com)
1 points by kickingvegas 1y ago|0 comments
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A proof of concept to put a better Emacs UI on top of Gnuplot(yummymelon.com)
12 points by kickingvegas 1y ago|0 comments
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by kickingvegas 1y ago
We are out here.
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by kickingvegas 1y ago
Nostalgia no more! Midnight Commander/4DOS style file management can be achieved with Emacs Dired today and then some. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Di... For your c
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Unleashing the Editing Superpower of Emacs(yummymelon.com)
16 points by kickingvegas 1y ago|0 comments

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