Mastodawn

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/fda-refuses-to-review-modernas-mrna-flu-vaccine/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

matt Jul 4, 2025

Everyday you learn something new, today I learned that there are pipes in Emacs Lisp. `->`. This is my favourite feature in R and seeing it here makes me unreasonably happy.

matt Jan 17, 2025

Very happy to share a new #emacs package I have been working on for my #hexcrawling #sandbox #ttrpgs.

I know there are some excellent hexmap-drawing tools out there but none matched my needs, or did too many things, so I made my own: https://github.com/Matt-Int/hexmap.el

Best thing about it in my opinon? No more worrying about corners on a page or getting to the edge!

GitHub - Matt-Int/hexmap.el: Emacs package for drawing hex maps

Emacs package for drawing hex maps. Contribute to Matt-Int/hexmap.el development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

matt Jan 17, 2025

How has it taken me years to find this #magit setting? `magit-diff-refine-hunk` setting this to `t` or `'all` makes reading diffs in magit so much better. #emacs

matt Nov 10, 2024

Christopher R. Rice Nov 10, 2024

The CEO of Steve Jackson Games gives you a stark look of the #gaming future as the tea leaves read now. This could very well be the death of hard copy for GURPS itself until the situation changes. And since they need to manufacture things other than GURPS they are going to have to hike up prices for those...which means they either lower the salaries of their people or fire some. I am NOT an alarmist - most of y'all know that. But this? This is really really bad.

https://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/2024-11-10

Daily Illuminator: The Reality Of Tariffs In Tabletop Gaming

Over the next few weeks and months, you'll see social media posts discussing how companies cannot offer holiday bonuses or will have to cut employees due to Trump's tariffs (proposed or enacted). Some of these stories may be fiction or cautionary tales that illustrate the price the average American pays for a politician's decision. But I can 100% tell you this is a reality many business owners in the manufacturing sector now face. If you aren't aware of how tariffs work, it's relatively simple. The company importing the goods from a foreign country pays the fee . . .

matt Oct 19, 2024

Needed to rename a bunch of files, removing a `part 01`, `part 02` etc.. Tried using `rename` but that did not support regexes, at least on Fedora.
Turns out #emacs dired mode lets you use normal editing, including `query-replace-regexp` which made it trivial to rename all the files.

matt Sep 7, 2024

Donkulosis Labs Sep 4, 2024

First stab at A* path-finding in my Bevy destructible terrain plugin! (Now to crush some bugs!)
#bevyengine #indiedev #rust #madewithbevy

matt Jun 23, 2024

Domestic Supply

Jun 23, 2024

Fellow #emacs users. If you haven't seen the announcement, there's a security update to #org-mode and a bugfix release of Emacs itself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/1dlz5zb/ann_emergency_bugfix_release_org_mode_975/

matt Jun 1, 2024

arialdo Jun 1, 2024

Probably the best article on #Emacs I ever read. Super exciting.

https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/

Avy can do anything

Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP. You’re using Avy wrong. Too harsh? Let me rephrase: you’re barely using Avy. Still too broad? Okay, the noninflammatory version: Avy, the Emacs package to jump around the screen, lends itself to efficient composable usage that’s obscured by default. Without burying the lede any further, here’s a demo that uses a single Avy command (avy-goto-char-timer) to do various things in multiple buffers and windows, all without manually moving the cursor:

matt May 26, 2024

stux⚡️May 26, 2024

And this how you spent your 5 years of luck