Jack Baty

Spacious-Padding Emacs package

Protesilaos Stavrou updated his spacious-padding package. I’d ignored this earlier but installed it today and it’s a nice, subtle, quality-of-life improvement to Emacs. It increases the padding or spacing of frames and windows on demand. The idea with this package is to provide the means to easily toggle

When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I'd written yesterday. I was pretty sure I'd written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn't missing. I just couldn't see

App Defaults (2023 Edition)

C’mon, everyone’s doin’ it. Here is my list of default apps (in alphabetical order by task): * Backups: Backblaze, Arq * Blogging: What day is it? I mean Kirby. * Calendar: BusyCal, Apple Calendar * Chat: Apple Messages, Signal * Clipboard Manager: Raycast * Code Editor: Emacs * File Manager: Forklift, Dired (Emacs) * Journaling: Org-journal

Subscriptions

Update I'll keep this list updated here. A few folks1 have been posting about their current subscriptions. Here is a list of my subscriptions, in alphabetical order, because I didn’t want to try categorizing them. * 1Password: $5 – Apple’s password manager needs to improve a lot before

Reason I love Org-mode No. 257: archiving TODOs

Just a quick appreciation of a common Org-mode feature. By default, archiving a TODO in Org-mode moves it to another file: "The default archive location is a file in the same directory as the current file, with the name derived by appending ‘_archive’ to the current file name."

Gitea

Why would anyone host their own Git repos when Github exists? Fair question! For me, it's mostly because Github has become too much like a social network. It feels like LinkedIn for nerds. I moved most of my repos to Sourcehut last year. Sourcehut has that fun, Craigslist

I'm doomed...again

Emacs is less than friendly out of the box, so we customize things to suit our own personal tastes and preferences. When starting out, some people even enjoy that part. It's one of the best things about Emacs, but I hated it. I just wanted to do stuff,

Back to Org-roam (from Denote)

🚨Update: I think Org-roam is the right answer for most people, but I could not resist the simplicity and lack of dependencies of Denote, so I am back in Denote as of June, 2023. Using both Org-roam and Denote for my notes is not sustainable. I had to make a

Use what you have

I have some pretty nice things. I'm fortunate and have more "stuff" than I could ever need. And yet, it seems as if I'm always buying something new. It's just that I like to try new things, whether it's tools,

We're using Ghost again

Here's a thing I've learned about myself: I'll work on something until it's twisted and tweaked into a shape I'm perfectly happy with. Then, just when I've got the process nailed, I switch to something entirely different. For