01 June 2021 Emacs DWIM: do what ✨I✨ mean Update: There's a DWIM follow-up for searching. I was a rather puzzled the first time I spotted DWIM in an Emacs interactive command name. Don't think I remember what the command itself was, but what's important here is that DWIM … | Continue reading
28 May 2021 Emacs link scraping (2021 edition) A recent Hacker News post, Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals, led me to dust off my oldie but trusty command to extract comment links. I use it to dissect these wonderful references more effectively. You see, I wrote this … | Continue reading
23 May 2021 OCR bookmarks schappim/macOCR: Get any text on your screen into your clipboard.. | Continue reading
19 May 2021 gpg: decryption failed: No secret key (macOS) gpg: decryption failed: No secret key OMG! Where's my secret key gone!? But but but, gpg –list-secret-keys says they're there. Puzzled… Ray Oei's Stack Overflow answer solved the mystery for me: pinentry never got … | Continue reading
17 May 2021 Emacs plus –with-native-comp I'm a big fan of Boris Buliga's Emacs Plus homebrew recipe for customizing and installing Emacs builds on macOS. For a little while, I took a detour and built Emacs myself, so I could enable Andrea Corallo's fantastic native compil … | Continue reading
02 May 2021 Cycling window layouts with hammerspoon Back in January, Patrik Collison tweeted about Rectangle's Todo mode. Rectangle looks great. Although I've not yet adopted it, Todo mode really resonates with me. I've been achieving similar functionality with hammerspoon. … | Continue reading