Evan Moses

All the writing on this blog is mine.

I’ve been an Emacs user for more than 25 years, and I’d say I’ve got a reasonable handle on customizing it.

TL;DR After setting a project aside for 5 years, I got my RPi4 booting from an SSD and running a 64bit OS by tweakingthe USB_MSD_STARTUP_DELAY bootloader config parameter.

I made a mistake with my git config recently (I’ve updated Separating work and personal config to avoid thatmistake 😬), and ended up creating all the commits in a branch with the wrong email address.

TL;DR My dotfiles are checked into a git repo I want to avoid checking in sensitive, work-specific config to a public git repo I updated my git and emacs configs to check for local overrides in ~/.local Like many folks, I check my dotfiles into a git repo…

Here’s a puzzle for Go developers.

TL;DR Here’s a snippet for use in Home Assistant for turning an arbitrary target selector into a list of entity ids Also here’s a low-battery warning Blueprint that uses it.

TL;DR I wanted to build reusable code for a pattern in Go I had to fight the type system a bit but I won in the end We can pack argument lists into structs to make the pattern generic over different sets of arguments to functions Skip to the end of the po…

Emacs has so many little features that do exactly what you need in very specific circumstances.

This blog, and the vast majority of the code I write, is written in Emacs withevil (a vim emulation mode).

I made up a neat little pattern in Go the other day.

Minimum Age ratings on games and why they’re terrible I came across this Redditcomment todayand it explains so much: I used to work in the toy industry - there is A LOT hidden behind age ranges on a box.

My employer, has recently been making securityimprovements to how we access all sorts of internal systems.

I watched Tabletop’s playthrough, and decided to pick it up at my local FLGS, Gamescape.

To start out, I’ve got a confession to make: I’m a pretty big nerd.

Last game night we sat down for a 4-way game of Power Grid, with me, Sus, A.C., and L.S., an old friend who moved to town relatively recently.

Last week A.C., Sus and I got together for a game of Agricola.

Unfortunately, A.C. and I didn’t have a chance to get together again before I had to clean up the games table, so there is no conclusion for our Twilight Struggle game.

I played the first half of a game of TwilightStrugglewith A.C. tonight, and it’s definitely one of my favorite games.