Whenever you see them, encourage those who are not having fun to take personal responsibility for their predicament.
Take it is an opportunity to teach them how you have fun, because they may have never learned how, and your kindness and gentleness can help you to teach them one of the most important lessons of their life.
The power of communication
Describe that which you want to achieve, with a slow rhythm, and in detailed language.
The ability, or inability to do this, will predict the outcome of your endeavor.
My definition of attitude
Attitude is how you feel despite all of the logical reasons not to feel that way.
Attitude is how you feel despite what everyone else is telling you about how you should be feeling right now.
Attitude means that you are taking personal responsibility and control of your life and how you feel instead of giving it away to something or someone else.
Every definition is a constraint
Every definition is a constraint.
Primarily they define operational limits of this reality. Even defining something to be “limitless and without constraint” is limiting because it requires either the written or the spoken form (albeit both spatial) and doesn’t allow for other possible means of communication.
The basis of most forms of science is definition, and thereby, observation.
Artistic expression is both a definition, and, an expression. Because it occurs within the operational constraints of this reality, it is by nature constraining and limiting. This is counter-intuitive, and, quite surprising. Perhaps this is already quite clear to those who have experienced things which are beyond definition?
Perhaps your are familiar with this phenomenon where in the attempt to define those things, you, quite unintentionally, tarnish and drag down those things. It is quite a bitter-sweet experience when you do want to share them, due to the sheer joy of it, and find that you simply can not.
You may have a feeling that you are not sharing, but, you must quite seriously ponder the question of “How can you withhold that which is intrinsic to every human being and is their birthright in this universe?”.
The Lenticular Text Style of Literate Programming
This announcement is pretty exciting because it reveals a new-to-me take on literate programming. The style is to store a single file as a source, and render disparate parts of that file in different buffers in a mode correct for the content.
For example you may have an Emacs Lisp file serve as the source and two separate buffers, one Emacs Lisp and one Organization (Mode), to work on the content, with all of the mode-specific assistance.
Is it a new idea? It is new to me and I am curious to find out about other approaches people have taken to realize this style.
How to authenticate Git at the command line on Windows over HTTPS
This is how. It really is that simple.
Why Friends?
Another reason why…
In regards to an injury that may prevent the lead-singer of a rock band from ever playing guitar again, that singer relays what his friends (band mates) said:
As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again. The band have reminded me that neither they nor western civilization are depending on this.
There are so many things woven into that. Painful and pleasant things especially. The love and kindness is quite apparent and sweet, and subtle, too.
The Emacs Widget Library
Probably Try to Avoid local-set-key
When I first learned how to set up Emacs, I really liked local-set-key because you didn’t have to know about the keymap for the mode you just had to make the call in that mode’s hook. That is simple and makes total sense. That has worked well for me for years until two things happened:
- Wanted to use prefix commands
- Re-started using Windows again on a daily basis
The former is part of the natural expansion of use and its refinement. The latter is similar, but specific to running Emacs on Windows.
The last time that I ran Emacs on Windows I did not use the Super key. Then I went off into the wilderness and use it a lot only to return and find that Windows owns lot of my keybindings. Not only were they owned, but they would not let go of them no matter how I tried! Because if this major inconvenience, I’ve got no reasonable choice other than refactoring some of my perfect bindings into something, ahem, better.
This refactoring would have been pretty easy if I’d jus done normal keybindings against keymaps, but I didn’t, I used local-set-key. So this becomes a good learning opportunity about the key-map names and additionally how, at least for myself, this is generally a bad approach because makes re-factoring harder.
The good thing is that at least up front there is a good time savings, I suppose.
All Emacs Users Should Probably Run auto-compile
Pose the question “Is there ever a time when Emacs users should be running out-of-date bytecode instead of the up-to-date bytecode or lisp?” to yourself.
All Emacs users should probably run auto-compile.