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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-29 at 13:33

“Love (and Share) What You Do”

Reflecting on a novelist finding no #joy in #writing.

https://takeonrules.com/2025/01/29/love-and-share-what-you-do/

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-28 at 03:06

A quiet night. #borderCollies

[#]phoyography #dogsOfMastodon

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-22 at 17:05

“On Elfeed and Backups”

A walk-through of the "perks" of using the #Elfeed #Emacs package for reading my #RSS feed. Then a quick overview of my back-up process, using habit stacking and #SyncThing. Finally, a reflection on what this is all meaning to me.

https://takeonrules.com/2025/01/22/on-elfeed-and-backups/

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-20 at 09:42

[#]borderCollie #snowDog #photography

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-19 at 20:41

[#]borderCollie #snowDog #photo Lacey eager to play frisbee.

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-18 at 12:15

Taking a personal #writing #habit and mapping it to the realities of work; with a goal of helping keep my work goals salient throughout the quarter.

https://takeonrules.com/2025/01/18/forking-from-a-step-in-a-stacked-habit/

[#]emacs #programming #personal #mbos

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-15 at 17:50

I've refined this just a bit more. I adjusted the sync process for my #Elfeed data (e.g. all of the pages I've pulled down as part of my #RSS reading). Instead of sync-ing the directory as is, I tar and zip it then send it for cloud sync. However, I only do this 20% of the time (using randomization).

This encodes my desire to preserve it, but also that it need not always happen. And we'll see if 20% of the time is the right number; I'd likely be happy with 5% of the time.

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Written by takeonrules on 2025-01-14 at 03:43

Instead of setting up a cronjob for synchronization to back-up. I'm doing some habit stacking. Namely, I almost always check my #RSS feed each day. And I add some #Emacs advice to that function; namely to run rsync on two directories.

This way, I don't have to remember to monitor logs (that is while I'm waiting to pull down feeds, I can see if the rsync succeeded).

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-28 at 14:50

Adding Color and Style to HTML Elements in Emacs's SHR/EWW

Creating an #Emacs macro to apply faces to named #HTML elements. All in service of conveying the semantic intention of the HTML when rendered as "plain text".

https://takeonrules.com/2024/12/28/adding-color-and-style-to-html-elements-in-emacss-shreww/

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-19 at 14:06

TV advert on morning show "Put your photos on this digital device to keep them forever."

My mother in-law called bullshit on that claim. Then we spent 20 minutes talking about digital preservation and bit rot.

Humans, we want fixity up until the point in which we meet resistance on maintaining fixity.

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-18 at 16:41

Learned about rel="up" link attribute...and about rel="up up"...and rel="up up up"

So I spent a few minutes adding that to a work project. I already had a Breadcrumb component (using #gomponents ) so this was silly paints easy.

And I can't help but giggle at up ad infinitum.

[#]w3c #html

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-18 at 14:36

Adding #HTML5 Display Block Elements to Emacs' #SHR (and #EWW) Tag Rendering

A quick adjustment to improve my in #Emacs web browsing experience.

https://takeonrules.com/2024/12/18/adding-html5-display-block-elements-to-emacs-shr-and-eww-tag-rendering/

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-17 at 13:33

Emacs again and again showing me what we have lost in the collective technological shift towards Web Applications and away from Web Documents and Hypermedia.

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-17 at 13:31

Today I learned about #Emacs eww-copy-alternate-url.

When viewing a page in #EWW, I can invoke the function which will prompt me to pick from a list of nodes that match the following #CSS selector:: HTML HEAD link[rel=alternate].

The selected link is added to the kill ring. Which makes it silly pants easy to collect the #RSS feed for a page. Next up? Maybe a capture template to add that URL to my #RSS feed list.

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-17 at 13:07

Extending Built-In #Emacs Bookmark Package:

Walkthrough of (temporarily) replacing a misbehaving package with a basic replication of one of that package's behaviors I use.

https://takeonrules.com/2024/12/17/extending-built-in-emacs-bookmark-package/

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Written by takeonrules on 2024-12-07 at 20:19

A walk through of building more functionality into my #OrgMode bibliography. Namely citations akin to #HTML cite-tag. This post has lots of #Emacs code.

https://takeonrules.com/2024/12/07/add-work-link-type-to-org-mode/

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