PizzaTorque

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Emacs, programming, CRPG's and fps'. And Pizza
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@frankel I always found them useful, I can agree on the scope priority, but at the core of this there is always an assumption of discipline. If discipline in carrying out this "formality" is missing in the team there is probably no other magic formula to be applied anyways.
@PeterFalkingham Nice, ehat are your usecases aside from programming? I was thinking of setting it up as an orchestrator and manager of the 6 raspberry pi's in my home

Masters of the Universe was great. Lots of fanservice. I am a fan. I was serviced. It was great.

Every meme was there, no meme spared.

Emacs 31 pretest marked! 31.0.90

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/4f4af26dd2ff7b2e5c7d35c6f8ffdabc5024d5b6

If you aren't already running it (😊) now is a good time to try it out with your config and help spot any problems.

Lots of good stuff with this one.

#emacs

Bump Emacs version to 31.0.90 · emacs-mirror/emacs@4f4af26

* README: * configure.ac: * exec/configure.ac: * java/AndroidManifest.xml.in (Version-code): * msdos/sed2v2.inp: * nt/README.W32: Bump Emacs version to 31.0.90.

GitHub

Look at this b-e-a-utiful device from @mntmn ! (macbook 16" for scale)

* trackball!
* mechanical keys
* small and portable
* open hardware
* easily repairable and upgradeable
* designed and assembled in Germany

I absolutely adore this thing! It's not all great, though:

* short battery life (compared to the machine behind it)
* thick! (though fine)
* screen could've been 8" instead of 7", but I guess that wasn't available off-the-shelf. I'll probably use it connected to a big screen

@ericsfraga Every time someone recommends some text editor, note taker, email client, organiser, coding thing ... I think yeah, but #Emacs, and move on.
Am I the only one feeling like all the agentic stuff has taken much of the fun out of programming?

Proud to announce another release of my little text editor, kg, now at v1.1.0

Read more about it on my blog https://troglobit.com/post/2026-05-26-long-time-no-blog/

#unicode #microemacs #emacs #terminal #console #embedded #linux

"There's a beaver dam in northern Canada that's twice as wide as the Hoover Dam, and was discovered from satellite photos because it's so remote, and forms a wetland delta despite there not being any distinct creeks or rivers feeding into it." --Beaver Stan Account (on Bluesky), from January 2024.

Very Canadian #JoyScrolling ("If we thought in terms of hockey rinks, that’s 1600 hockey rinks of water.") Sadly, no alt-text for the photographs in the article. #Beavers

https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/nt/woodbuffalo/nature/beaver_gallery

World’s Largest Beaver Dam

Whenever I hear from my University administration that they are losing money on research and need the high overheads to keep the lights on, I think about they way that they keep accepting gigantic gifts from donors that require (1) them to build a huge new building, (2) establish huge matching funds, and (3) pay for the maintenance of that building in perpetuity regardless of whether it actually results in increased revenues (including grant overheads and tuitions) to the university.

A new building is a White Elephant.