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I’ve used Protonmail for several years and use the web interface for the most part and used Thunderbird on the desktop to keep offline copies of email. Since Protnmail takes care of the encryption it requires a local bridge to provide a standard interface like IMAP. Essentially, it is running an IMAP server on the local machine that any compatible client can connect to. Technically, the bridge can be made accessible on a local network so many clients from many machines can connect to it....

I am very intrigued by the whole concept of literate programming. There is a lot of opinions and lots of valid points for and against comments, but ultimately it’s always a good idea to understand intent. I wanted to create a literate config but did not want slow down startup with tangling. I came across an interesting package today called org-transclusion by @nobiot. The package is very interesting, being able to bring in arbitrary lines of text from multiple documents into a single document (while those documents remain the source of truth) is quite powerful....

I was asked about my Doom config by someone on fosstodon but it’s not a clean repo where I’m not confident that I didn’t accidentally commit private information in the past, so I wasn’t sure how to share. But this is a good time to put a pin in the config and capture a snapshot here, for reference. This is quite messy and mixes idioms at random as I learned more about configuration....

I picked up a water color kit for $2 with a brush and eight colors to try something new. I followed along with a tutorial to paint a highland cow and my painting wasn’t that great, but it was fun. Afterwards it felt a little like Chewbacca, so l added a bandolier. Here’s Highland Chewie Chewvaca: Highland Chewie loyal ally

I’ve been using evil-mode for my Emacs configuration and evil-leader makes the key-mapping very straight-forward with the set-key. I wanted a few functions to be grouped together. SPC is bound as a leader key and there are a few frequent functions bound to single keys, the rest are grouped under other leaders. However, the secondary leaders show up as x → +prefix and it would nice to give the grouping a name....

I crafted a custom configuration for Emacs and have been using it for the past few weeks. This is something I didn’t really see myself doing when I started using Emacs, it seemed “very advanced”. This was my journey from a noob to a different kind of noob! Doom I started my Emacs journey with Doom and was learning things along the way. This was a great way to get started by borrowing configuration snippets and blindly copying and pasting, which got me up and running quickly....

I have been using the Sony A7ii for a long while. It was my first full-frame and mirrorless camera. The A7ii is a great camera and in a lot of ways I have been very spoiled by it. However, when the A7iii came out with fairly significant improvements I resisted the urge to upgrade and decided to wait for the A7iv. The A7iv was released last week and in many regards is a “perfect” camera....

I came across this new org-bars package that shows folding indicators and lines to indicate the groupings. In a forum discussion I also discovered that there’s another package org-visual-outline but it actually requires configuring two packages so I didn’t try it. However, based on the discussion in the comments it seems that org-bars supports narrowing of the buffer (and it works great) which visual-outline does not. I discovered a visual bug and filed a report, so hopefully it’s an easy fix but it’s not a breaking issue....

I have been using Darktable and transitioning away from Adobe’s Lightroom. However, I have almost a decade of edits and experience with Lightroom so doing a cold-turkey switch is proving to be challenging. So I decided to investigate if I could “natively” run Lightroom (without a VM) so I decided to give wine a try. I use guix as a package manager on Pop!_OS and guix has wine but it did a while to build and install....

Up until the last commit, the site was being written in Org Mode, exported using ox-hugo, and Hugo was invoked manually to generate the html all locally. The generated public folder was what was being pushed to SourceHut for the deployment. This will be first post which will only commit the actual content in org format only and the full CI/CD will happen on SourceHut. Using org-publish I’ll be following along with the System Crafters’ Publishing Website with Org Mode to take full advantage of org-publish and configure multiple outputs (WWW and Gemini)....