Nth Roam
Nth Roam : An Emacs package to efficiently manage multiple roam instances
Nth Roam : An Emacs package to efficiently manage multiple roam instances
I’ve always maintained a philosophical appetite for the tooling that I use.
One of the core tenets of the Unix Philosophy1 is that everything is a file…
Plan92 has caught my eye due to its more homogenous design than the usual unix you’re used to.
The footnoted-paper (~pre-mature book) is somewhat unhinged and doesn’t shy away from taking a jab at the Unix ecosystem and design.
Apart from the several points the author makes, what stands out the most for me is the idea of everything truly being a file: in hindsight, Unix only realizes a fraction of the principle.
I’ve started spending some time per day without the usual modern software engineering tooling (LLMs, the Internet, etc) to explicitly maintain my cyber-deduction skills (in the context of Unix-based systems (BSDs, Linux, yet to explore Plan9), mostly because they power the majority of the global compute infrastructure).
It’s fun: init your journey with a man man
(I’m an info info
guy myself) and be extremely skeptical of your usual modus operandi, ditching all assumptions and tumbling down the rabbit hole.
Fabric1 is a collection of crowd-sourced prompts, exposed via a CLI tool. I used it for a while some time ago but never fully exploited it because I prefer Emacs.
Eshell buffers are an option, but I am principled in my tool usage and prefer to delegate longer-running CLI tasks to a combination of Alacritty and Tmux.
Maintaining my Emacs shell usage to ephemeral popups feels natural.
Gptel2 is a versatile LLM client that integrates smoothly into my workflow (buffer/text manipulation and management) without disrupting my thought flow.
I’m using monitors again and it’s like consuming caffeine after a long time (last recorded usage circa mid November 2024).
I guess I need to cycle my dosage so that I don’t end up being too dependent.
I’m enjoying it though.
EDIT: as of <2025-01-27 17:50:30 IST>, I’ve given up again
A while ago, I had the strong desire to partition some of my professional work logs into mutually exclusive git repositories: with Blacklists and Whitelists flipped.
I was aware that the .gitignore
could ignore stuff; today I found out that I can also whitelist stuff via that.
checkout 1 this stackoverflow question
So if the first .gitignore
looks like
asdf-pattern
more-asdf
some-absolute-asdf
dir-asdf/
the second one would look like:
# blacklist everything first
*
# unignore the directories to capture nested existences
!*/
# then your usual unignores
!asdf-pattern
!more-asdf
!some-absoluete-asdf
!dir-asdf/
What I wonder now is if git would allow for a branch-contextual .gitignore (named with certain protocols) so that I don’t have to maintain two different repositories altogether.
I recently have moved on from using monitors and am working (professional and writing endeavours) only via a 13 inch laptop. It is definitely a different workflow than what I’m used to.
It has been around 10 days I’ve been doing this and here are some observations:
I definitely do miss reading papers and books on a larger vertically oriented screen but I’m going to stick to this for a while.
There’s this saying :
If you’re stuck on an island and have the opportunity to build all of the software landscape again, the programming language you should choose is C. But the first thing you should write is a lisp interpreter.
I’m going to do that with Go.
As for the saying, I’ve heavily paraphrased (aka butchered) that and don’t quite recall the source so do excuse me for that.
This is how I time my workblocks these days…
single_beep() {
( \speaker-test --frequency $1 --test sine )&
pid=$!
\sleep 0.${2}s
\kill -9 $pid
}
morse(){
for i in {1..3};
do
single_beep 400 $1
\sleep 0.${2}s
done
}
sos() {
morse 200 500
morse 400 500
morse 200 500
}
timer() {
\sleep $1 && sos &
}
The above can be sourced in your shell rc.
I store it in a .bash_funcs
where I have all my functions and source them in the end of my rc as source ~/.bash_funcs
.
As of 0x22CE (Mon Sep 23 06:48:40 AM IST 2024), These are the operating systems I’ve used:
I recently moved away from Fedora 40 to Tumbleweed (I deleted some core python libraries that are essential for yum and dnf (I know, I’m an idiot))…