When You Get To The Point Where A Project Feels Stuck
I hit a dead end on a lot of my projects this week, and getting past those dead ends has been a bit of a headache for me. How can I improve upon that, and use those skills to prevent dead ends and...
View ArticleEmacsConf as a Community Watering Hole
So, I've been roped in to helping plan an Emacs Conference. It's been a while since I've done it, basically since FUDCon Tempe, but doing community building work has felt incredibly valuable in terms...
View ArticleWeekly Review 10 May 2015
Yikes, it's been too long since I've done this. I've volunteered for the Noisebridge Iron Blogger so I will hopefully be blogging more often, even if it's just these pesky update posts.
View ArticlePracticing Stress Free Living
Something has changed in how I live my life the last three or four years. I've gone from being an incredibly independent person able to handle damn near anything thrown at me to someone who *struggles*...
View ArticleAutomatically Re-set Emacs Environment
I use =gpg-agent= as an ssh agent as a means to use a Yubikey Neo PGP smartcard as physical login tokens. Without a pair of Yubikeys and their passphrases you can't log in to any of my assets or as me...
View ArticleWhat am I Reading?
I spend a fair amount of time just reading things that interest me. As outlined in [[http://doc.rix.si/org/fsem.html#sec-8][FSEM]], I use Gnus as my primary method to consume newsletters, blogs, and...
View ArticleThe Beginnings of a Systems Integration Hydra
Over on Hardcore Freestyle Emacs I'm beginning to take a look at what sort of systems-level integration I want to build in to my Emacs workflow; the end goal, naturally is to run nearly everything...
View ArticleCapture All EWW Buffers
On FSEM, [[I built a system to capture and kill my EWW buffers]] in to my refile.org. Throughout the day, I end up with 20 or 30 EWW buffers for things I want to read at the end of the day, be them...
View ArticleKDE ActivityManager in Emacs
Today I whipped up a small Emacs minor-mode to interface with KDE's ActivityManager system. It's my first minor-mode and it's janky as fuck right now, but I'm going to expand on it to eventually be...
View ArticleHow I Created Hardcore Freestyle Emacs
I've been asked more and more lately how I've gone about creating Hardcore Freestyle Emacs, my literate computing configuration. After all, it's over 100 pages printed, covers damn near everything I...
View ArticleMy Inventory
Over on Hardcore Freestyle Emacs I am beginning to expand my documentation of my Inventory system, which I am using to catalog the things that I own -- physical objects, mainly but also my eBooks and...
View ArticleAutomatic Workflows in Org-Mode
I recently implemented a system for automatically moving among a list of Org-mode tasks, which I call *TaskFlows*. The idea is simple: tag a project as a taskflow, and when you complete a task, it...
View ArticleScreencasting FSEM?
More and more, people have been asking me to show more of the setups I've been working on, between FSEM and my Body Computing Systems; With that in mind, would people be interested in weekly...
View ArticleBody Computing System: A Redux, and a Dream
Back before the dawn of mankind, in the month of April, I wrote about my struggles with the body computing system and what I was going to do to build a system that actually worked for me; since then,...
View ArticleNew GPG Key
Please find attached [http://whatthefuck.computer/new-key.txt] my new GPG key as well as general identity information.
View ArticleMclient.el --- A Matrix.org frontend for Emacs
Today I tagged version 0.1.0 of mclient, a matrix.org client for Emacs and I opened a pull request to have it added to MELPA. I've been incredibly interested in Matrix as an RPC layer for my projects;...
View ArticleOn the Balkanization of my chat communities
Over on PaulGraham News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541), there's an ongoing discussion about using Slack for FOSS projects...
View ArticleBody Computing System continuations
Over the last few weeks, I have integrated the Body Computing System more and more deeply in to my workflow and moving more and more systems out of my smartphone and shitty decentralized systems.
View ArticleThe day I died
The day I died -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) hQEMA9cHHJ9U4pISAQf/Ufxqgx43FbqRfJJz2ksFegiIX7wfcbaggl7qFJcU+UA0...
View ArticleSome more spam for both of my subscribers’ rss feeds… Day 01: A Letter to...
Some more spam for both of my subscribers’ rss feeds… Day 01: A Letter to your Best Friend One of my kinda-sorta-friends who I wish I had hung out with more in high school instead of just being...
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