Today we purchased a new car!
Thank you (Here I assume you are congratulating me 😄)
It is a great feeling.
Some quick thoughts (in random order)
The process took about 2 hours, even though we were waiting just 10 minutes for our turn.
Tomorrow onward there will be a lot of rush due to Diwali
Kids got bored towards the end, when the executive was giving me the demo/explaning the features.
It started with a post on Emacs Stories Telegram group. Someone posted a pretty picture with Emacs-logo-on-a-butterfly and a comment M-x butterfly
But the actual command M-x butterfly is boring (to me at least)
I wanted the nice image.
Some nice soul on the group directed me to this page
First I changed the icon of my doom emacs to this image.
I followed these instructions.
No immediate success.
Because, I have Emacs installed from brew, so one in /Applications folder is a symlink to the actual file in /opt/.
Last night when I wanted to check this site, but I started getting security error related to certificate. But it did not say domain expired.
I know Netlify automatically renews the cerificates, so I was confused.
But I was too sleepy to troubleshoot.
This morning, for some reason I checked my other email account which I almost never use except for domain registrar 😄
The Domain has expired email was smiling at me.
Few hours ago, I uninstalled Instagram from my phone.1
Ironically, earlier today I watched a reel on Instagram saying “Instagram is like Chakravyuh, and we are like Abhimanyu. We can go inside, but not come out”.2
I think that made to take this action.
I noticed that I had not written much in the entire month of August 2023, and hardly 2 entries in September. While some of it attributes to work pressure, my instagram addiction may be equally responsible.
As mentioned earlier I tried new starter kit called Emacs Bedrock.
Getting started was easy with --init-directory option in Emacs 29
I also enabled a few mixins in init.el as recommended. Especially evil mode.
The *Quick Help* that shows up at the start is very useful. Especially for someone like myself who is not familiar with native emacs keybindings.
Enabling evil mode means I can at least edit the text.
Recently when reading about emacs Bedrock I learnt that emacs 29+ has command line option that lets the user pass custom init directory via emacs --init-directory=MYDIR option. 1
This makes it easy to try out different starter kits without touching your stable/working config
Currently, I use Minemacs on my personal machine. In past I would rename my .emacs.d to try new config. (Then switch it back)
This makes things easier.
I’ve been using vi for 20+ years and somehow I didn’t know that it has spell check built in 🤷♂
Enable it by simply :set spell
Now misspelled words are shown in red background 1 (depending on the terminal’s capability this might vary - I assume)
Off course, this is nowhere near full fledged LSP like ltex which I use with emacs and helix. ltext does more than spell check.
My thoughts in the context of this thread.
I did try org for some time (initially when I switched to Emacs) as mentioned here
But eventually I realized that markdown is more pervasive.
I am aware that Org is supported outside of Emacs as well.
But compared to markdown, that is nothing.
But that is not necessarily the point.
e.g. When I do code review, most of the git service providers support markdown.
Why do we “listen” to somebody ?
Here I do not mean hearing when I say listen
I mean obey or follow.
I think it comes from either respect or authority.
Authority maybe given by someone else
e.g. Teacher in school, boss at work, parents at home.
Lot of times, most people do what these people tell you to do, because of the authority inferred on them.
Because you are “supposed to” do what they say.