Srijan Choudhary, all posts

Emacs has a built-in way to save and restore sessions: the desktop.el library.

Noticed that the comment form was not working here since my last upgrade of Kirby and the komments plugin.

#TIL that #Emacs also has a Global Mark Ring: the global mark ring records a sequence of buffers that you have been in, and, for each buffer, a place where you set the mark For programming buffers / projects, I've been using the xref stack to go back/forw…

Reposted: Better Models: Worse Tools by Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.

Knoppix nostalgia Oh man, fond memories.

TIL about describe-personal-keybindings from https://mbork.pl/2026-05-09_describe-personal-keybindings and https://irreal.org/blog/?

A small #Emacs #OrgMode quality-of-life tweak.

Faced a failing disk in my raidz2 ZFS pool today.

A small elisp snippet that I found useful.

tramp-hlo looks interesting.

gcloud_ssh A simple script that finds a google cloud compute VM by IP address across all projects of an organization and runs gcloud ssh to it. #!

Quick note for me to generate #Emacs TAGS file for an #Erlang project: find {src,apps,_build/default,$(dirname $(which erl))/..

I didn't know that Aloe Vera can have flowers!

Read Jeremy's post on quickly switching the default browser.

I had been facing an issue in #Emacs on my work Mac system: C-S-<tab> was somehow being translated to C-<tab>.

Introduction To use my org GTD system on the go, I use the excellent Orgzly Revived mobile app for Android.

I saw a few blog posts with people sharing their default apps for the year, and I wanted to share mine as well.

Org capture button in Slack message popup Ever since switching to orgmode as my GTD system, I've been trying to (slowly) optimize my capture system for things coming to me from different places.

Read an interesting set of posts today: https://lethain.com/extract-the-kernel/ and https://lethain.com/executive-translation/ .

Tried using X11 on #Linux the last few days due to some issues with Zoom screensharing in Wayland with the latest pipewire, and I already miss #Wayland.

I have been using #karousel on #KDE for several weeks, and yesterday shifted to #PaperWM on #GNOME.

#Emacs #TIL : I learned about save-interprogram-paste-before-kill - which saves the existing system clipboard text into the kill ring before replacing it.

Emacs NEWS file for 30.1 The first Emacs 30.0.91 pretest for what will be the 30.1 release of Emacs was announced on the mailing list a few days ago.

Something precious stolen by magic.

My small #emacs #orgmode #gtd customization of the day: org-edna is a plugin that can be used to setup auto triggers (and blockers) when completing a task. org-gtd uses it to auto-forward the next TODO item in a project to NEXT when a task in the project…

Note to followers of my site using RSS feeds - I've removed the microblog replies/likes etc kind of posts from the "All Posts" feed.

I have been reading books mostly on Kindle for the last 10 years or so.

Webmention rocks tests Redoing these tests with indieConnector v2.1.0 Discovery Tests 1-22: PASS Discovery Test 23: FAIL Update Test 1: PASS Update Test 2: FAIL Delete Test 1: Not Tested Receiver Tests 1-2: PASS #IndieWeb #Webmention

Using sysrq on my laptop - documenting mostly for myself.

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash I've been using Emacs' orgmode as my GTD system for the last several months.

Found Samuel's nice post on capturing data for org via email.

I recently updated my Install docker and docker-compose using ansible post and wanted to test it against multiple target OSes and OS versions.

@rogerlipscombe@hachyderm.io has a nice post on using git with multiple identities.

My new #IndieWeb enabled website is now live!

New #Coffee #BlueTokai This new packaging from BlueTokai looks nice.

#Patterns

Test webmention + fed.brid.gy: Two naked tags walk into a bar.

Added an RSS feed for notes

I've been working on an Indieweb-enabled site redesign using Kirby CMS + TailwindCSS.

Midjourney: two systemd services fighting over who will start first Background I use mbsync to sync my mailbox from my online provider (FastMail - referer link) to my local system to eventually use with mu4e (on Emacs).

In my last post, I described how I enabled encryption on my Linux root partition.

Introduction I have an Arch Linux system with an unencrypted root partition that I wanted to encrypt.

The Problem We publish some of our build artifacts to Google Cloud Storage, and users need to download these to the target installation system.

At my org, we wanted a simple Slack bot that posts a roundup of new channels created recently in the workspace to a channel.

One of the problems I've faced working from home for the last one year is the rigidity of the VPN software used at my work.

Introduction Dialyzer is a static analysis tool for Erlang that identifies software discrepancies, such as definite type errors, code that has become dead or unreachable because of programming errors, and unnecessary tests, in single Erlang modules or ent…

I have been using Emacs for several years, and these days I'm using it both for writing code and for working with my email (another post on that soon).

At work, we use the multi-app project pattern to organize our codebase.

Introduction This post will go through my experience with setting up some advanced monitoring for PostgreSQL database using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana (also known as the TIG stack), the problems I faced, and what I ended up doing at the end.

Jenkins is a free and open source automation server, which is used to automate software building, testing, deployment, etc.