Greg Newman

Astral announced Ty Beta today, the new Rust-based Python type checker.

For a while I have used gitwatch to autocommit my Orgmode and Denote files to my private repo but I always manually started gitwatch which means I often forget to start it.

I've been using Magit in Emacs for many years and on larger (and some smaller) projects there would usually be a 3 to 5 second delay with magit-status and commits.

Since moving off Hugo into this Astro blog I haven't had much time to write yet do much work to the site.

It is month two of the Emacs Carnival and I am hosting July with the topic of "Writing Experience".

This post is my contribution to the Emacs Carnival June 2025 topic "Take Two" set by Christian Tietze.

Last week I had an urge to both see if it's possible to send tasks from emacs to OmniFocus and to test Claude's ability with elisp.

I wanted to setup Pi-hole to experiment wit for a while and see what the hype is about.

I dipped my toes in the world of Ubiquiti a few years ago for two main reasons.

When I switched from Emacs 28.x to Emacs 29.x a few months ago I thought I would give Eglot a try instead LSP mode which I had been using for the past several years.