henry_flower

I think you should self-publish. With your existing audience, you'd sell plenty of copies, and nobody would push "AI" into your work.

    $ alias omglol='find -name \*txt | xargs -n50 grep -li'
    $ omglol selfie
    ./10/IMG_20241019_204444.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082108.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082118.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154559.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154554.txt

    $ omglol selfie | sed s/txt/jpg/ | xargs feh

to even obtain wix v5: first, using scoop, I installed "dotnet-sdk"; second, using the "dotnet" command, I got the wix.exe executable via

> dotnet tool install --prerelease --global wix

add this comment to the course's page, as it may not be obvious that it is not locked due to the beta status

https://sigwait.org/~alex/p/pg2e/

    $ foo -h

when I rerun with --help, it prints a worse than useless usage string and says "for more help, type --help-advanced"

https://sigwait.org/~alex/blog/

topics: linux (usually in some sort of critique), javascript, emacs, & random quotes from books I'm reading

I think this is somewhat akin to Emacs: startup costs are enormous, but you reap the fruits for the rest of your life.

it's just an .html file with an empty body, no tracking & 5 lines of JS:

    window.addEventListener("load", () => {
      if (chrome.extension.inIncognitoContext) {
        document.body.style.background = "#53718e";
      }
    });

too few developers enjoy their job

managers are incompetent but multiply like flies

heh

in my case I wish it was based on my IP

but for some unbeknownst reason, some components of the page are in Russian. I'm not in Russia; nothing in my browser request indicates I'd like to read Russian.

isearch-forward turns on a minor mode that has it's own keymap

a snippet from isearch.el:

  (defvar isearch-mode-map
    ...
    ;; Several non-printing chars change the searching behavior.
    (define-key map "\C-s" 'isearch-repeat-forward)
    (define-key map "\C-r" 'isearch-repeat-backward)

  (global-set-key [f12] 'isearch-forward)
  (define-key isearch-mode-map [f12] 'isearch-repeat-forward)

I don't see what is the problem here

    https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/curate-a-collection/api-reference/get-collections-entries

why did they choose a happy/sad face, instead of, I don't know, regular buttons?

who's the indented audience of that page? kids? I think not. It's probably a 30-something year old grumpy, bearded guy, yet...

1) you are not a child

2) yet, you're suddenly start being addressed as a child

3) you get used to it (even if you protest at first; or maybe the silent majority doesn't mind?)

4) because of 2&3, with time, you became infantile (which, certainly, could be an exaggeration)

5) apparently, this technique works quite well for "customer retention"--you feel "safe", for everything that is presented to you is cosy, cartoonish, kid-oriented staff

  https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt

  $ json -j version dependencies.eslint-scope < `npm root -g`/eslint/package.json
  {
    "version": "4.19.1",
    "dependencies.eslint-scope": "^3.7.1"
  }

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/redo+.el

> Not being paid for a labour of love does not make one exempt from criticism.

I'm fine w/ criticism; I'm just of an opinion that the word "shit" is a bit too much; also I'm fascinated how the current emacs maintainer handles such a complex proj

> The software's user interface

which part? the majority of the user-visible 'interface' consists of so called interactive elisp cmds (runnable via M-x ...); the help for such cmds (or the whole modes) gets extracted from the corresponding fn comments & gets updated in real time when/if the code changes.

> and on-line documentation should be implemented in my language, but it's available only in English.

this is tough. the user's manual is huge. it'd probably take a year for a pro translator to produce a meaningful result

the elisp manual is even bigger

the tutorial is available in multiple lang, though

>> M-x speedbar That displays a hierarchical file browser in a separate window, not a list of documents.

click w/ the rigth btn in the speedbar win: a popup menu will appear. select speedbar->displays->buffers

pls don't say that :( there's exactly 0 ppl in the world who get paid for writing emacs. nobody is selling the editor as snake oil liniment that ought to remove all the grievances.

> No localisation

what do you mean? I can read/type in emacs in all 3 human lang I know/use daily.

> No tabs

true

although `M-x speedbar` can display the list of all open buffers in a vertical fashion

> Window cannot be maximised prior to setting some obscure option

I usually just press F11

> Menu items and buttons do not have underlined letters (i.e. accelerators)

true

> The vast majority of the options cannot be accessed through the menu

true

> or dialogues, instead you get a non-editable document with embedded buttons

why do you care if it's not a 'native' dlg? the mouse works. C-s works.

> Configuration is stored as code

hehehe

that's the whole point, m8!

> Keys cannot be rebound from the menu.

true

> The list could go on and on

I was hoping you'd mention the idiocy (I cannot find a more proper word) w/ buffers that have long lines. every time I open some 2MB xml file that was generated as 1 string, emacs suddenly becomes dog slow. this is what should be criticized, not the inability to rebound keys from the menu, imo.

  $ time ruby --disable-gems -e 'puts "hi"'
  hi

  real    0m0.009s
  user    0m0.008s
  sys     0m0.000s

> surprised to see the author's use of "the Ukraine"

heh

just look up his linkedin; apparently he has spent his prime years working in Russia as some kind of tv producer there.

besides, you're right, "ppl" and especially "2fold" were a bit too much :)