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After recently releasing magit-git-toolbelt, a Transient interface for git-toolbelt in magit, I’m happy to share another Magit extension I’ve been working on – magit-gh, an Emacs package that integrates the GitHub CLI (gh) into Magit.

I’ve been a long-time user of both Magit and git-toolbelt, a suite of useful git helper commands by Vincent Driessen (@nvie).

I’ve always been interested in developer experience and understanding the metrics often used to measure this unique type of productivity.

For most of my life, I’ve always preferred a dark theme when it comes to coding whether I’m in Emacs or the terminal.

I’ve been meaning to move my email management to Emacs for the past year and finally made the jump after see Mike Zamansky’s video on this (YouTube).

I was fortunate enough to get to present at EmacsConf 2019 in November of last year and I wanted to share the content from my presentation: {{<youtube vS7YNdl64gY>}} And here’s the source for my org slides on GitHub: https://github.com/jonathanchu/emacsco…

I’ve been learning Clojure in my spare time and coming from a predominantly Python-focused career, I wanted to chronicle my experiences with learning Clojure and integrating it within my Emacs config.

This past weekend I hacked together a new Emacs color theme that is essentially a port of a Atom.io’s One Dark theme.

In Django 1.8, a new template system was introduced along with the ability to choose a templating engine, with Jinja2 having built-in support.

I’ve tried out a number of keyboards in the past year in an attempt to move away from my beloved, but aging, Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 and wanted to put my reviews of them up for anyone looking for an overview of the ones I tried.

With Django 1.5, one of the biggest changes introduced was the ability to configure the user model.

I’ve been a big fan of Notational Velocity for quite a few years now - and more recently, nValt which is a popular fork of Notational Velocity, but with a bit more features.

Intro Link to heading Throughout the years, I’ve flipped back and forth between Org-Mode and applications such as Drafts (iOS), Evernote, Simplenote, and even plain ol’ text files (with the Notational Velocity and nValt) for my most basic note-taking need…

Recently, I updated all of the packages I have installed via Homebrew and ran into some issues with the PostgreSQL package.

I have a Buffalo TeraStation that I bought in 2006 to store all my big media files.

About two years ago, I bought my dad a MacBook Pro as a gift and with him being a long-time Windows user, the transition wasn’t seemless to say the least.

Since it seems that everyone and their mother is doing a “year in review” post, I find it fitting that I be no different and write one as well - except it’s three weeks later than everyone else. 2011 was an exciting year for me for a variety of reasons, as

When doing any kind of Python development, one tool I find indispensable is virtualenv.

After a long blogging hiatus, I recently decided to switch over my custom Django blog to a static site generator, following the trend that many others have started.

I recently decided to purchase a MacBook Air to use as my primary computer, saying goodbye to my previous laptop - a 15" MacBook Pro with a HiRes AntiGlare display, 2.66GHz i7, 8GB RAM, and 500GB HD @ 7200RPM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 512MB memory.