davep
davep
Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
Latest Posts
A quick little refresh of one of my old packages, this time quiz.el. This is a nice little distraction when you're working in Emacs, letting you spin up a quick trivia quiz in a buffer. It's backed by the Open Trivia Database, so there's...
While I have been doing a lot of hacking on blogmore.el, I haven't forgotten my plan to revisit and refresh some of my older personal packages. This evening I've paid some attention to expando.el. This started life a long time ago, as...
Despite having bumped it from 2.x to 3.x yesterday, I'm calling v4.0 on blogmore.el today. There's a good reason for this though. While tinkering with some of the configuration yesterday, and also answering a configuration question last...
When I first started writing blogmore.el it was just going to be a handful of commands that let me spin up a new blog post, and insert the odd link here and there when needed. Initially it only handled a single blog, and everything it...
After releasing blogmore.el v2.6 this morning, I noticed something about the post: the text that was marked up with <kbd> wasn't really standing out as keys. In blog posts, as in documentation, if I mention the name of a key, I like to...
There's no question that the experiment that is BlogMore has resulted in me blogging more. Although my previous setup wasn't exactly all friction, there's something about "owning" most of the tools and really knowing how they work, and...
Like most people, I imagine, I first ran into transient when first using magit. I took to it pretty quickly and it's always made sense to me as a user interface. But... I've never used it for any code I've ever written. I think,...
Back when I first really got into writing Emacs Lisp code, one of the first things I got very used to and really fell in love with was being able to eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) the code I was writing, either to test it right there in the...
A wee bit over 5 years back I wrote a tiny package to quickly insert PHONY target markers into a Makefile. While it's far from my most-used package, it's one that gets a call on occasion, so it's one I still carry around in my Emacs...
Following on from yesterday's release, I've bumped blogmore.el to v2.5. The main change to the package is the thing I mentioned yesterday about the toggle of the draft status. The draft toggle yesterday was pretty simple, with it working...
I've just published v2.8.0 of BlogMore to PyPI. This is a small update which addresses a bug that Andy reported. The fix was simple enough, and is another little interesting thing to keep in mind given that BlogMore is an ongoing Copilot...
I've just released a little update to blogmore.el, adding blogmore-toggle-draft as a command. This came about in connection with the feature request that resulted in BlogMore v2.7.0 being released. While I don't personally use draft for...
Given I've been on a little bit of an Emacs Lisp side quest, it's been a couple or so days since I made a release of BlogMore. Today's release comes after a feature request about draft posts. While support for marking posts as drafts,...
Some time in the late 1990s, after I'd been using GNU Emacs for a few years1, I grabbed a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. While I'd obviously created and added to and tinkered with my ~/.emacs some, I'd never written any...
This bit of Emacs Lisp absolutely comes from a more innocent time on the Internet. Looking at it, it seems I wrote the first version, at least as a proper package, back in 2001. It's very possible that I carried a non-package version of...