There’s a lot of stuff in the default emacs modeline, particularly once you start adding a bunch of useful minor modes like show-paren-mode, smartparens-mode, aggressive-indent-mode, which-key, helm, company-mode etc etc… I honestly don’t find it useful to have access to all that information in the modeline, (if I need to know what’s active, I can just run C-h m). There’s a couple of packages specifically designed to shrink or remove minor mode indicators from your mode line (diminish, delight…) but I don’t really want to have to explicitly set an option for each minor mode. Read more

Here’s a niche little script I wrote. Are you in the intersection of the Venn diagram of people who use i3 window manager (or something similar such as regolith) and people who use the TaskWarrior to do list app? If so, you might be interested in this script that puts the description of currently active tasks in your i3bar. I’ve submitted a pull request to i3blocks-contrib, but there are a lot of PRs pending, so I don’t know how active the repo is. Read more

This post is mainly to test hugo’s code formatting capacities. I have two machines – a desktop PC and a laptop – that I like to keep in sync. I do this by keeping a git repo of my various configuration files called dotfiles which is backed up to a web server. Then, I just make symbolic links from all the places my programs are looking for their configs to the config files in the repo. Read more

OK, I bought scmb.xyz. Now what?