#Tag
Time for an #introduction I suppose.
I am a full stack developer, former game developer.
I had a lot of exposure to #clojure and #emacs in the last 12 months, and got hooked.
I have been using #tdd for about 15 years.
I like to use #godot for hobby game projects.
So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file.
#Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much.
Here's a catch:
me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml
1 file.xml
It's a 439 Mb long line.
I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.
So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file.
#Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much.
Here's a catch:
me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml
1 file.xml
It's a 439 Mb long line.
I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.
New instance new #introduction
I'm Alex,
I make opensource games using #fennel with #love2d, music using #reaper and #pixelart using #aseprite. (see bio)
For writing code, I exclusively use #emacs
Goals for this year
1. Use Zig in a real project
2. Make a game with #godot
3. Get better at making vector art #inkscape
Programing languages I love Fennel, Erlang, Scheme, C, Elisp, Zig
Offline, I enjoy snowboarding and painting minis (Lord of the Rings)
For my music check out @alexjgriffith@mastodon.art
https://spectra.video/w/qvxsFMhciScC1T2py3eFvB
going live for a bit, working on the text editor that is supposed to ship with the suite of tools with the people's permacomputer model 1.
#permacomputing #retrocomputing #tinybasic #6502 #z80 #livecoding #peertube #retro #emacs #retrogames #texteditor #programming
https://spectra.video/w/qvxsFMhciScC1T2py3eFvB
going live for a bit, working on the text editor that is supposed to ship with the suite of tools with the people's permacomputer model 1.
#permacomputing #retrocomputing #tinybasic #6502 #z80 #livecoding #peertube #retro #emacs #retrogames #texteditor #programming
With all the easy IRCv3 capabilities implemented, I looked into some of the harder bugs plaguing Circe and touched the reconnect logic in lagmon/pingmon. Had a hunch that the reason reconnects sometimes fail with an unhelpful error (claiming among other things that the service/port number of the affected socket is 0) is #DNS and confirmed it by patching #Emacs to show a clearer error message (and raise a more specific error) when it's indeed DNS.
Remaining problem: Merely throwing/catching a DNS error is not enough as that makes the network process enter a "deleted" state (whatever that means) and any operations on the object fail, so that case needs to be detected to create a new one (which is basically what I'm doing when manually executing M-x circe-reconnect-all). Then the bug may be fixed for good...
A cup of tea and the need for a change of focus for 20 minutes allowed me to finally publish a blog post which I started two months ago.
It’s an introduction to me scratching a new itch… #Emacs: https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-09-28-emacs/
A cup of tea and the need for a change of focus for 20 minutes allowed me to finally publish a blog post which I started two months ago.
It’s an introduction to me scratching a new itch… #Emacs: https://blog.sgawolf.com/post/2025-09-28-emacs/
One of the joys of not being on the bleeding edge and using older, well established software is exemplified by my slow exploration of #emacs. In this case it’s a book which is 11 years old but it is a really well written, clear guide and whilst bits are outdated the fundamentals, which is what I am after, are still relevant.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-gnu-emacs/0596006489/
Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ekaitz about Guix, bootstrapability, FOSS advocacy, and the Basque country https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2025-09-24=prot-asks-ekaitz-guix-bootstrapability-foss-basque/ #emacs
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