notes from /dev/null

One of my favorite Emacs commands is sunrise-sunset (Sunrise/Sunset (GNU Emacs Manual)) to get the day’s times for sunrise and sunset.

A feature of macOS Finder that I enjoy using is Quick Look, where a preview of a selected file can be displayed by pressing the space bar.

In keeping with this blog’s recent interest in building REST clients in Emacs Lisp (Elisp), here’s a utility library I’ve assembled that covers some common tasks in doing so.

Continuing my explorations on malleable computing with Emacs is examining access to OS/Platform-specific resources, in this case with macOS. macOS provides a number of mechanisms for high-level inter-process communication, among them AppleScript & Automat…

Since its inception, Casual required individual setup for each module it supported.

For me, listening to music whenever I’m working on a computer is a commonplace, daresay essential activity.

It all started with a routine task.

A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS).

Back when I had to run a lot of long-running simulations on Unix systems, I became an ardent user of the at command, which lets one schedule a program to run at a future date.

“No-code automation” has been in Emacs far longer than its usage as a term of art.

TL;DR If you use both Scrim and Emacs on macOS, you can “Open in Emacs” a file or directory from Finder via the “Quick Actions” context menu.

Heads up for readers of this blog who are using Anju or are mouse-curious Emacs users.

Of all the built-in editing commands in Emacs, the commands that work with rectangles delight me the most.

As celebrated as Emacs is for its programmability, I find the actual process of developing Emacs Lisp (Elisp) to be quite underwhelming.

Emacs offers a dizzying number of commands to perform bulk operations on multiple files or buffers.

These keybindings are good to know when working with a mouse in Emacs.

For folks who like using the development build of Emacs (at the time of this writing Emacs 31.0.5) on macOS, it turns out there is a bug in how Scrim sends Org protocol requests to it.

A recent Mastodon post showing the days until the next U.S. election got me to wonder, “how can I compute that in Emacs?”