Finding the shape of my thoughts. ~ Sacha Chua. https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/07/finding-the-shape-of-my-thoughts/ #Emacs #Org
Finding the shape of my thoughts. ~ Sacha Chua. https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/07/finding-the-shape-of-my-thoughts/ #Emacs #Org
My Emacs writing experience. ~ Sacha Chua. https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/07/my-emacs-writing-experience #Emacs #Org
I'm joining the carnival!
"My decade with Org" is my post for the Emacs Carnival
https://xenodium.com/writing-experience-my-decade-with-org
Thank you @greg for hosting this month
The excellent @openrightsgroup 20th birthday conversation between @pluralistic and @mariafarrell started with the #OpenTech panel discussion which led to ORG's founding. It featured Cory, me, Rufus Pollock, and @danny
An #ORG friend has dug out the video! I've uploaded it to #Peertube here: https://p.lu/w/fE5rfqD2YVjjTCczEAaPjy
OrgMeetup happening now: https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Jul 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 10 0000 Asia/Singapore #emacs #org
Well, I gave #use-package an honest shot. I rewrote my #emacs config using it, 5000 lines of #Org file.
It all works. Cleaned up a lot of things, replaced old ways with new ways. I now know definitively that I do not like use-package. It adds unnecessary complexity with very little benefit. It doesn't actually load any faster than my old way, in fact it seems to be slower, doing less, from start up to prompt.
:bind, :hook, :custom, and :ensure are cool. But not that cool.
I don't hate it, I can see if all you want is to load a package, bind a key, set a custom var and add a mode hook it could be handy. I won't be doing that.
Today, I'm ripping it out.
How I organize my life using Org mode right now..
https://bledley.xyz/posts/2025-06-25-how-i-use-org-mode-part-one/
Today colleagues and I present not one but two #Guix tutorials at Compas, the French #HPC conference!
① #Guix + #Emacs #Org for #ReproducbibleResearch
https://guix-org-tutorial-compas-2025.gitlab.io/tutorial/
② Deploying #HPC code on supercomputers with #Guix
https://guix-hpc.gitlabpages.inria.fr/compas-tutorial-2025/
People of Emacs and Org Mode:
Are there any packages to manage a project? I have projectile, but that's more for coding. I mean like a house move or fence build kinda project: something that has multiple todos and will take a protracted amount of time.
Failing any specific package for that, what about a org template for said project?
TYIA
Set up some niceties to make my #org writing experience a little prettier.
I'd been a JetBrains Mono everywhere person for some time. Trying 'Overpass' font for org documents in Writeroom mode, adjusted sizes for headings etc. - Feels fancy..
What fonts do you like? any other tips?
I had a moment of inspiration and created #ggg take a look (still #experimental #foss software)
ggg: #guile #scheme #glyph #generator
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg
Through #svg generation from #lisp we leverage a (wip) #dsl and apply some #math knowledge to build pixel perfect project #markdown / #org badges.
It also scripts #imagemagick to export to #png or #webp .
You can then use the svgs in your #codeberg (or #github) repository #readme for example.
I provide a #guix manifest in the repo
Neat (but slow): The following snippet will instruct Org-mode to generate MathML when exporting LaTeX-snippets to HTML using LaTeXML:
(setopt
org-latex-to-html-convert-command "latexmlc literal:%i --profile=math 2>/dev/null"
org-html-with-latex 'html)
You can adjust it to load additional packages by adding --preload=
flags.
Forgot to announce this post. I use my #org archive in #emacs occasionally to revisit timelines for past projects. I also link headings heavily and these links can break as things are archived, which makes these timelines much more difficult to trace. I wrote a function to help address this.
Nothing Is Simple - Org File Housekeeping
https://nothingissimple.ablatedsprocket.com/posts/org-file-housekeeping.html
A lot of my todo items in #org files in #emacs are tied to Git repositories, so I wrote the code to define a Git link type and wrote about it.
Nothing Is Simple - Git Links in Org
https://nothingissimple.ablatedsprocket.com/posts/git-links-in-org.html
Irreal’s initial thoughts on Journelly: “As for Journelly itself, I like it. A lot.”