It's unfortunate that US citizens have to wait so long in the day before the fireworks begin. And it's all because we have to wait until it gets dark, which happens at 9:00pm or later. So here's a proposal to fix that:
https://ludditegeek.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-change-to-independence-day.html?m=1
@ai6yr It's a good time to vacuum the coils on your refrigerator so it doesn't have to work as hard.
@sacha To answer my "what was I doing / thinking" questions, I've been relying on web browser history. (I stopped living in Emacs when I went on my Sabbatical of Indeterminate Duration.) I do like org-capture -- I latched onto it early on. But nowadays, I rely on Org mostly for bill paying -- it does recurring deadlines very well, and the logging makes it easy to know if anything slipped through the cracks. Please keep sharing your workflows!
@AlSweigart Angela Yu uses Snake to demonstrate object-oriented programming with Turtle Graphics in Python. The other games she uses are Pong and Frogger. The course is "100 days of code: the complete python code bootcamp" on Udemy.
@freemo @LaD_Hallo The current elevated extinction rate is based only on the species we know about, isn't that right?
Yet another benefit of getting laid off is that you don't need to write a clever letter of resignation...
https://ludditegeek.blogspot.com/2025/05/no-letter-of-resignation-required.html
The unproductive search for another productivity tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
QOwnNotes huh?
@michaelanckaert Not sure I'd want #Emacs buffer content auto-updated if it's changed externally. I've done some idiotic things like redirect the output of a script to the script itself, for example! But thanks for the tip!
I completed Day 18 and Day 19 of #100DaysOfCode, even while tweaking my #Emacs init file.
I figured out the reason there's no matching quote mode. Unlike with parenthesis (and bracket and brace), source code doesn't use a different character for open quote and close quote. Thus, matching quotes would require a different approach.
@aj Okay, I clicked share, but with whom and what service? Here's the link it gives me, FWIW: https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01JS8ZXQ41B1ZH33AZ2R2XGY2Y
Luddite Geek resides in Northeastern USA with just one cat and a wife. He received his B.S.E.E. from a well-known technical university and has worked in the electrical industry since 1982. He specializes in Automation of CAD and Data Analysis. He does not have a Twitter account. His Myers-Briggs personality type is INTP.