Charles Choi 최 민수2d ago

If you haven't heard of run-at-time in Emacs, now you know. Also included is a demo of using run-at-time to send yourself a future notification in macOS.
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/scheduling-future-tasks-in-emacs.html

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Scheduling Future Tasks in Emacs

Back when I had to run a lot of long-running simulations on Unix systems, I became an ardent user of the at command, which lets one schedule a program to run at a future date. I also used at...

Show threadChristian Tietze1d ago

@kickingvegas hmm I'm intrigued by your Shortcut. I don't use Shortcuts at all. I do use Emacs notifications, and the alerter tool I'm abusing for that is horrible and the longer it runs, the more RAM it uses, per notification. (Hello DnD notification display suppression)

So maybe a Shortcut.

Show threadCharles Choi 최 민수
@ctietze just doing what Cupertino tells me to do. 😏
Jun 25 at 4:17amWeb
Show threadCharles Choi 최 민수1d ago
@ctietze things got more complicated for scripting when NSUserNotification got deprecated. Shortcuts seems to be a path that has the highest likelihood of still being maintained for scripts.
Show threadCharles Choi 최 민수1d ago
@ctietze the shortcut is less expressive but I’m betting it will require the least maintenance to raise a notification over time. OTOH, who knows what Cupertino is going to think up/support for orchestration in the presence of AI tools over the next OS releases.