Today I’ve released nREPL 1.1.1 with a couple of small bug-fixes and one more notable, if mostly invisible change. Historically nREPL’s completions op used internally a modified version of clojure-complete, that I eventually released as a library named incomplete.…

I am doing a live stream today where I will be maintaining some of my packages for Emacs.

Anyhoo… the reason I checked was because I was cleaning up my closet, which I’m told you have to do five times a century, whether it needs it or not. I got about er 11? of these refuse …

Most Rubyists probably know that nil in Ruby is an instance of the singleton class NilClass. Because nil is a object like any other, we can actually invoke methods on it, and it turns out that NilClass provides a few - mostly conversion methods to other Ruby…

String#split is a pretty-well known and commonly used method. Still, its behaviour in some cases might surprise you: irb(main):001:0> 'foo.bar'.split('.') => ["foo", "bar"] irb(main):002:0> '...'.split('.') => [] irb(main):003:0> 'foo...'.split('.') => ["foo"]…

A while ago while working on Rust-based Emacs, I was loading a new elisp file and hit a stack overflow. Digging deeper I found the issue in trying to print a cyclic list (where the tail of the list points back to previous element). I knew this was a possibility…

I’ve noticed recently that I’ve missed one small, but very handy addition to Emacs 29 - the --init-dir command-line options. According the release notes: Emacs now supports setting ‘user-emacs-directory’ via ‘–init-directory’. Use the ‘–init-directory’ command…

Yesterday, I wrote my Update on the Campaign Status Document. I had manually set the alignment of several Non-Player Characters (NPCs 📖) ; but I thought “Maybe I should instead clear those out and randomize?”
And I started thinking about how I might automatically…

Narrow to focus, widen to review and plan. tldr: “C-x n s” to narrow and “C-x n w” to widen

What is dead cannot die. – A Song of Ice and Fire (a.k.a. Game of Thrones)

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