I got some feedback on my elisp exercism.io exercise, took a little while but it was really useful! Good advice to use `let` to scope the variable locally, and I learned the `or` macro as an alternative to an if conditional.
Author: Neil Mather
Bluebells
The downside of ‘scratch your own itch’ is that it leaves a lot of itches unscratched.
Either you need:
a) a way of enabling more people to scratch their own itch
b) a way of encouraging people to recognise and scratch other people’s itches
Or both.
Reading about Chile in 1970, the book makes a few references to the comparative lack of computing technology in Chile at the time (50 computers) compared to other nations.
What’s a modern-day analagous technology that access to is regarded as giving a country some kind of advantage over others? (Not including overtly militaristic stuff like missiles etc.)
Hmm, I would like to use markdown when publishing to my site via Micropub. I see there’s some discussion of it as a micropub extension (https://indieweb.org/Micropub-extensions). I wonder if there’s a simple way to enable it at least for WP publishing via the Micropub endpoint.
Noting for myself, whenever I get an `org-preserve-local-variables` error, this is the way to solve it:
# bash
cd ~/.emacs.d/elpa
find org*/*.elc -print0 | xargs -0 rm
(where the elpa directory might be in a different location depending which version/branch you’re on.)
And then run `M-x spacemacs/recompile-elpa`.
Ooo, Magit Forge is niiice.
Let’s me work with issues in a Github/Gitlab repo straight from Magit in Emacs.
exercism.io seems like a nice approach to learning to code in new languages where you solve problems and get advice from a mentor on your solution.
Trouble is that for elisp the mentors seem to be AWOL…
‘For this reason, commons are not merely social spaces in which work and life might unfold in richer, more autonomous and sustainable ways beyond the scope of capital; the commons are also sites in which critique and resistance have the potential to develop’.
(Gotta chuckle though that the paper looks to be written in Microsoft Word…)