cyrialize

don’t tell my coworkers

I updated my personal website to add some fun themes, like Windows XP and Windows 98! cyrialize.dev

To quote the Emacs tutorial: "...don't sit and blame yourself - complain!" #Emacs

Apple TV is making me love screensavers again. Do you guys remember the endless pipes in Windows? Bring back screensavers!

I’m a huge god-mode user for #Emacs. I love using a mostly modal like interface (I still press ctrl most of the time). I think because of that I’m just addicted to Hydra now. I love to jump into an interface with singular key presses instead of chaining keybindings over and over.

Here's my commit! github.com/cyrialize/.e... I have multiple org files for tasks. `cyr-org-tasks` loads a desktop view of these and calls `hydra-org`, which has commands to switch windows, refile tasks, add new tasks, etc. I defined a func to insert a task so that I won't exit out of the hydra!

I rediscovered Hydra this past weekend for #Emacs. I combined this with a saved desktop (using ‘desktop-mode’) to open up a window layout for my task files. I was able to build a nice pseudo task management app! I haven’t pushed the changes yet, but I will soon.

It took trying to make a static site generator to make me realize I should just use an already made static site generator. I wanted to make one because I found many SSGs to have too many features, but if my home made SSG is like Jekyll without extra features - I’ll just use Jekyll!

tabs vs spaces

when you find a new theme in one place you gotta change it everywhere else. This includes: your text editor, terminal emulator, computer, and house

It’s tough to create an #Emacs package because every time I have a new idea, I find out it’s already been made (or it has existed in Emacs for 30 years)

I never took dired in #Emacs seriously until now. I apologize dired, I wasn’t familiar with your game! My keybindings along with dired’s makes moving and deleting files so nice!

I feel like every time I dive into an #Emacs package I find out that it was already in Emacs 30 years ago. Yassnippet? Meet tempo and skeleton.

I reinstalled #Emacs Helm after not using it for /years/, I completely forgot about the action sub-menu on items. Honestly, super helpful. I know you can achieve something similar via Embark - I’ve been meaning to dig into that package more!

Correction: this is an interview posted on Sacha’s blog as the interviewer didn’t have a blog of their own.

This interview of Helm's maintainer, Thierry Volpiatto, by @sachachua.com is one that I mention often to... well everyone! It's wild that one of the most well-known Emacs packages is by a mountain guide in the alps. sachachua.com/blog/2018/09...

I really like #Ruby meta programming capabilities because every single side project I have starts out simple, but then I think “what if I could make the code write the code” or “a DSL would go really nice here” (I’ve never finished a side project)

Finally learning more #Emacs elisp is bad for me, now I’ll NEVER leave Emacs.

I forgot that my standing desk had buttons

Shout outs to xahlee for amazing #emacs content like this one: xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/... It’s making me stop being lazy and actual commit to learning some elisp, instead of copy-pasting and then trying whatever works like a mad man

average compsci experience

I like that #emacs just inundates you with options for everything. Is it overwhelming sometimes? Yes, totally. But is it cool to fine tune exactly how Emacs handles and shows white space? Yes, totally!!

Prot is one of my most favorite #emacs people because he consistently puts out amazing content like this: protesilaos.com/codelog/2024... I especially love using the `after-init` hook instead of just calling the mode. I've already adapted my config to this!

who knew that reading the #emacs ‘use-package’ documentation is better than just copy-pasting random declarations until you break your config and then just ‘git revert’ everything

@appsonthemove.bsky.social Thank you so much for creating beorg! I’ve been a daily user for years - it’s definitely one of my most favorite apps.

if you set your database browser font to Comic Sans it's less serious when you accidentally drop a table. follow for more development tips

Finally cleaned up my #emacs config! Check it out here: github.com/cyrialize/.e... I mentioned this in previous posts, but I followed an approach in this reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comm... for manually maintaining my `package-selected-packages` list.

Instead of updating my website, I instead spent the past couple of months creating my own static site generator I don't think I'm any closer to updating my website

I’m revamping my eMacs config and I swear this time around I’ll actually read the full readme of every package I install #emacs

[ ] learn a new programming language [ ] work on my side project [x] spend hours picking a new font and theme for my editor

whenever twitter servers went down it was stupid but when bluesky servers go down it’s just cute. like awe sorry we love you so much we know you’re doing your best

Sometimes when all my spec tests are failing I like to throw in ‘expect(1).to eq(1)’ just to see some green in a sea of red #ruby #rails

SQL! SQL. JUST USE SQL

Great read if you're thinking of switching off of `package.el` in #emacs -> github.com/radian-softw... I've use `straight.el` the most mainly for the reproducibility and the cloning of `git` repos. Finding the sources of packages installed always felt easier when they were local clones.

I feel like the #emacs world has largely settled on vertico (+ marginalia, plus etc) for a completion framework - including me but sometimes I find myself missing Helm. Maybe one day I'll switch back!

I'm a thrill seeker. I run `rm -rf` without double checking the directory.

show off your laptop stickers! left is my MBP 2021 M1, right is my Thinkpad T530 (check out the QR code on the MBP)

Is everybody believing in the servers? If you don't believe in the servers they don't work

at my old company we received a request for a new PC when we investigated we found out that a researcher created an excel macro that did work for his team, but was so inefficient that it bricked his computer for 3 days