Luddite Geek @Luddite_Geek@qoto.org
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.
Joined Aug 2020
Wordle 1,497 6/6
I never heard of the solution word or the one I entered before it
Wordle 1,495 X/6
I hate when this happens. With at least eight words that end with the four correctly-guessed letters, there's a good chance of not getting the first letter without using the third guess to eliminate most of them.
Wordle 1,482 4/6
Sometimes having a great second-guess word really helps, as in this case
Ironic item of the day: my office is cluttered with books on how to declutter.
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
Wordle 1,473 4/6
A very easy Wordle this morning. This solution along with the one for Connections, which I solved in four guesses, took me less than 2 minutes, although I don't really time myself
I'm going through the Notion Getting Started videos while thinking that Org-mode can do that! Except, Emacs is not drag-n-drop, which, to me, is a good thing. So maybe I'll go through Org-mode tutorials instead.
Wordle 1,454 6/6
I wonder if the Wordle curator saw that I was bragging about how easy the puzzle is and so made it much harder
Wordle 1,430 6/6
"Phew" is right! There is one other possible word, but it could be considered politically incorrect.
Wordle 1,426 X/6
I was a few games shy of beating my 141-game streak and then this. Does anyone else think this game plays them? Anyway, I'm still running a 99% win rate.
Wordle 1,421 6/6
I usually guess the word in four tries, or maybe three or five times, but sometimes this happens
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?
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.
I planted the clematis (Guernsey Flute) last week. It's still alive! The idea is to train it up the lamppost. This replaces the one that came with the house, which didn't survive the replacement of the post and of the pump in the well nearby.
Wordle 1,402 5/6
Sometimes just one letter makes the difference between a score of 3/6 vs 5/6. I've actually lost in this kind of scenario. I'll admit to be a bit frustrated when this happens.
Pancakes for this special morning. I'll be adding blueberries and walnuts, and making the baking powder from cream of tartar and baking soda. Note that a vegan version is possible by combining flaxseed and water and not using the egg
blink-matching-parens is an awesome Emacs minor mode. But why can't I find something like that for matching quotes? Where are you blink-matching-quotes? #emacs
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.
Joined Aug 2020
