James Cash 🍍 @jamesnvc@mastodon.social

Ugh...I updated my keyboardio firmware and now my tapdance & oneshot keys are sporadically not working properly...and in the process of trying to figure out what's going on, I realized that there are open pull requests against my keyboardio repo from February that Github decided not to tell me about (sorry @iliana )

I don't like computers

I spent a while yesterday figuring out how to make a Helm source in Emacs with some nice little features that the provided ones come with, but the documentation doesn't explain. It required some source-diving to figure out, so maybe someone else will find this useful: https://occasionallycogent.com/emacs_custom_helm_source/index.html

@algernon I kept thinking about this too over the past few days & tried to put my thoughts down https://occasionallycogent.com/git_via_email/index.html I look forward to seeing your thoughts as well (I appreciated your comments on Lobsters, as always)

I wrote something again today, this time about something a little more controversial than Emacs customization 😬 https://occasionallycogent.com/against_mindless_minimalism/index.html

@algernon That is very cool! I would love to have something that would let me type on my phone without getting frustrated, I will be following this project with great interest :D

I'm trying to write more things for public consumption, so I wrote a little bit about my recent foray into customizing my Emacs modeline. I would love some feedback about anything - content, presentation, something better to write about! https://occasionallycogent.com/custom_emacs_modeline/index.html

After having used the JVM a lot, but entirely with Clojure, now actually trying to write Java for an Android thing is utterly frustrating. I'm currently drafting a political platform that will make writing private methods, properties, and constructors for your library a felony.

@algernon I've been feeling like it's time to block Lobsters for a while too...it seems like it's become a lot more like the sites I came there to avoid :/

TIL that if you want to ignore something just for your local git clone, you can put a gitignore-style glob in .git/info/exclude, instead of having to commit it to the .gitignore for everyone

@varx It was ECMAScript 1.4/"Javascript 2"

@davidrevoy Looks good on Firefox on macOS, but it seems to just be a still frame on iOS...don't see any controls or way to make it play either :/

My end-of-year books-read list: https://occasionallycogent.com/books_of_2018/index.html

@noelle If you're ever in Montreal, the biodome has a pretty great penguin exhibit, with a bunch of them running around & being goofy.

I just learned about extended DCGs in Prolog and they are very cool. I even mostly avoided comparing then to monads 😬 https://occasionallycogent.com/prolog_edcgs/index.html

I'm watching the supergreatfriend "Let's Play" of "The Missing" now. From basically as soon as the game started, I was sure that JJ was trans, but I wasn't entirely sure why. Now, in episode 6, they start teasing the reveal of that.
I am just really curious what it was about the intro to the game that made that so obvious but left me unable to article why :/

@iliana That is pretty bad...reminds me when my family lived on "Indian Road", in a neighbourhood that also had Indian Street, Indian Grove, and Indian Park Cresent.
On the plus side, we got to know all the people that lived at our street number on the various other streets, since we'd constantly get each other's mail :p

@ambrevar Hey, I just wanted to let you know I just moved my blog from Jekyll + markdown to Org, based on your "A Blog in Pure Org" post.
Thanks a lot for writing that & publishing your setup, it was extremely helpful!

@algernon That looks great!