- A bit more on Testing my org-export customisations with ERT.
Author: Neil Mather
- Had a quick read about Passkeys.
- Listened to Platforms for Public Good w/ Mathew Lawrence & Thomas Hanna
- Listened to Hotel Bar Sessions: Whose Anthropocene?
- Good discussion – is Anthropocene a useful term? Maybe Capitalocene works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
- There’s a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).
- Also listened to Envisioning Platform Socialism w/ James Muldoon
- Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
- Platform Socialism. Guild socialism. Subsidiarity. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
- DECODE.
- Went for a walk and listened to The Silicon Empire in Eastern Europe (ft. Erin McElroy)
- Following a stumble through the garden related to , re-reading The Telekommunist Manifesto.
- Also plan to re-read The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution.
- Adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden not as straight forward as it could be.
- Using it as an opportunity to get familiar with ERT. Testing my org-export customisations with ERT.
- Should be simpler to write against small tests rather than having to go through the whole publish pipeline.
- Late night listened to What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)
- Social data.
- Has predictive value.
- Three ways to extract surplus value with it:
- 1. Just sell it on, e.g. data broker
- 2. Use it to exploit people based on knowledge from the data
- 3. Use it to exert power (e.g. Uber’s Greyball program)
I’ve been picking up the guitar again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some John Fahey too.
- Noticed that someone (haji-ali) has forked and updated both calfw and calfw-blocks.
- https://github.com/haji-ali/emacs-calfw
- https://github.com/haji-ali/calfw-blocks/
- Might be worth making use of these. Have a read through the fork changelogs.
- Further to trying out org-timeblock, I’m now trying out calfw-blocks.
- As part of a general attempt to be able to do timeblocking in org-mode. (Using org-mode for timeblocking).
- Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks org file for work. Thumbs up.
- I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.
- I already have ‘This page last updated: …’ at the bottom of every page.
- But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
- org-timeblock looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
- I used to use Goalist on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
- So… trying out org-timeblock. However, hitting a bunch of issues from the beginning.