@somanyhills.com It did! I also wrote a function to use this generally, like for calendar and related:
plrj.org/2025/06/06/m…
@somanyhills.com It did! I also wrote a function to use this generally, like for calendar and related:
plrj.org/2025/06/06/m…
@somanyhills & to be clear: I think Mickey Peterson knocked it out of the park with his article An Emacs Tutorial: Beginner’s Guide to Emacs, which I linked to.
Once you finish Emacs’s tutorial, you’re left with more questions than answers. In this beginners’ tutorial to Emacs, I’ll show you how to customize Emacs; how to get around and ask Emacs questions; and how to spot (and avoid) picking up bad habits.
@ablatedsprocket ahhhh, that makes sense. Thanks for the 411
@kickmule Not yet. Will open-mindedly kick the tires before I pass final judgement, but not having enjoyed either V1 or V2 I’m skeptical. Have you? If so, what did you think? What about it do you think I might like?
@manton My dad grew up there in the 40s+50s. He hated going downtown since the 90s because it was so derelict. It made him sad&mad. Glad they were able to wrest it away from the troll who also owned the Ambassador Bridge. There are lots of urban spelunking vids of the station pre-rescue
@craigmod.com Thanks for this! I ended up forking it into a Tampermonkey userscript that auto-navigates to other pages to download everything so you don’t need to click on each page 😁: gist.github.com/lfhbento/338…
@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social From the hetman to the end of the book I lost the thread, especially the lake battle＆the cacogens．It seemed well-trodden：of course he ran back into Dr. Talos＆Baldanders，the Claw was fickle＆Sevarian made poor decisions．Last 2 chapters give me optimism for continuing
@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social I’m ok w/ it but if it goes too long ＆I get the allegory I will unabashedly skim &| skip ahead
@rayvisnesky.bsky.social I’m not. Thanks for the tip!
@somanyhills.com Thanks! I’ve definitely found a rhythm for reading these books & am taking Lictor in big chunks. Two of my friends had shockingly parallel experiences to mine & they enjoyed the journey
@somanyhills 3/３”So while it may over-perceive, fear captures so much a mind in lassitude does not. What if, then, instead of all this acumen being used up to prevent you from moving forward, it became a useable intelligence? What if it became a guide?” – Adam Haslett on the Uses of Doubt
@somanyhills 2/３”[When] I try answering the question of what’s making me afraid, I’m able to sense—and more importantly to use—the enormous energy and intelligence that fear contains. Its eye for detail is peerless, its ear keen (its purpose, after all, is to keep us alive).” – Adam Haslett on the Uses of Doubt