I like checking out the #emacs hashtag when I put together Emacs News. In the past, I usually browsed the hashtag timeline on emacs.ch, which also picked up updates from other people that emacs.ch was following. Now that I've moved to @sacha@social.sachachua.com and emacs.ch is winding down, I wanted to see if there was a way for me to see a combined view using mastodon.social's API feed (paging by max_id as needed). I haven't enabled public timeline feeds on my server, so I also need to reuse the OAuth mechanics from mastodon.el.

First, let's start by making a unified timeline. By digging around in mastodon-tl.el, I found that I could easily create a timeline view by passing it a vector of toot JSONs.

(defun my-mastodon-fetch-posts-after (base-url after-date)
  "Page backwards through BASE-URL using max_id for all the posts after AFTER-DATE."
  (require 'plz)
  (require 'mastodon-http)
  (let ((results [])
        (url base-url)
        (use-mastodon-el (not (string-match "^http" base-url)))
        page filtered)
    (while url
      (setq page (if use-mastodon-el
                     (mastodon-http--get-json (mastodon-http--api url) nil :silent)
                   (seq-map (lambda (o)
                              (cons (cons 'external t) o))
                            (plz 'get url :as #'json-read)))
            filtered (seq-filter (lambda (o) (string< after-date (assoc-default 'created_at o)))
                                 page))
      (if filtered
          (progn
            (setq results (seq-concatenate 'vector filtered results)
                  url (concat base-url (if (string-match "\\?" base-url) "&" "?")
                              "max_id=" (number-to-string (1- (string-to-number (assoc-default 'id (elt (last page) 0)))))))
            (message "%s %s" (assoc-default 'created_at (elt (last page) 0)) url))
        (setq url nil)))
    results))

(defun my-mastodon-combined-tag-timeline (later-than tag servers)
  "Display items after LATER-THAN about TAG from SERVERS and the current mastodon.el account."
  (interactive (list
                (org-read-date nil nil nil nil nil "-Mon")
                "#emacs"
                '("mastodon.social" "emacs.ch")))
  (require 'mastodon)
  (require 'mastodon-tl)
  (require 'mastodon-toot)
  (let* ((limit 40)
         (sources (cons (format "timelines/tag/emacs?count=%d" limit)
                        (mapcar (lambda (s)
                                  (format "https://%s/api/v1/timelines/tag/emacs?count=%d" s limit))
                                servers)))
         (combined
          (sort
           (seq-reduce (lambda (prev val)
                         (seq-union prev
                                    (my-mastodon-fetch-posts-after val later-than)
                                    (lambda (a b) (string= (assoc-default 'uri a)
                                                           (assoc-default 'uri b)))))
                       sources [])
           (lambda (a b)
             (string< (assoc-default 'created_at b)
                      (assoc-default 'created_at a))))))
    (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Combined*")
      (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
        (erase-buffer)
        (mastodon-tl--timeline combined)
        (mastodon-mode))
      (setq mastodon-tl--buffer-spec `(account ,(cons mastodon-active-user mastodon-instance-url) buffer-name ,(buffer-name)))
      (display-buffer (current-buffer)))))

The tricky thing is that boosting and replying in mastodon.el both use the toot IDs instead of the toot URLs, so they only work for toots that came in via my current mastodon.el account. Toots from other timelines might not have been fetched by my server yet. Adding an external property lets me find that in the item_json text property in the timeline buffer. For those toots, I can use (mastodon-url-lookup (mastodon-toot--toot-url)) to open the toot in a new buffer that does allow boosting or replying, which is probably enough for my purposes.

(defun my-mastodon-lookup-toot ()
  (interactive)
  (mastodon-url-lookup (mastodon-toot--toot-url)))

When I go through Emacs News, I have a shortcut ethat boosts a post and saves it to as an Org Mode capture with a link to the toot. I sometimes want to reply, too. So I just need to intervene before boosting and replying. Boosting and favoriting both use mastodon-toot--action, which looks up the base-item-id text property. Replying looks up the item-json property and gets the id from it.

(defun my-text-property-update-at-point (pos prop value)
  (let ((start (previous-single-property-change (or pos (point)) prop))
        (end (next-single-property-change (or pos (point)) prop)))
    (put-text-property (or start (point-min))
                       (or end (point-max))
                       prop value)))

(defun my-mastodon-update-external-item-id (&rest _)
  (when (mastodon-tl--field 'external (mastodon-tl--property 'item-json))
    ;; ask the server to resolve it
    (let* ((response (mastodon-http--get-json (format "%s/api/v2/search" mastodon-instance-url)
                                              `(("q" . ,(mastodon-toot--toot-url))
                                                ("resolve" . "t"))))
           (id (alist-get 'id (seq-first (assoc-default 'statuses response))))
           (inhibit-read-only t)
           (json (get-text-property (point) 'item-json)))
      (when (and id json)
        (my-text-property-update-at-point (point) 'base-item-id id)
        (my-text-property-update-at-point (point) 'item-json
                                          (progn
                                            (setf (alist-get 'id json) id)
                                            (setf (alist-get 'external json) nil)
                                            json))))))

So now all I need to do is make sure that this is called before the relevant mastodon.el functions if I'm looking at an external toot.

(with-eval-after-load 'mastodon-tl
  (advice-add #'mastodon-toot--action :before #'my-mastodon-update-external-item-id)
  (advice-add #'mastodon-toot--reply :before #'my-mastodon-update-external-item-id)
  (advice-add #'mastodon-tl--thread :before #'my-mastodon-update-external-item-id))

The only thing is that I need to press RET after loading a thread with T (mastodon-tl--thread) for some reason, but that's okay. Now I can boost and save posts with my usual Emacs News shortcut, and I can reply easily too.

I'm curious: how many toots would I be missing if I looked at only one instance's hashtag? Let's look at the #emacs hashtag toots on 2024-09-12:

(defun my-three-way-comparison (seq1 seq2 seq3 &optional test-fn)
  `(("1" ,@(seq-difference seq1 (seq-union seq2 seq3 test-fn) test-fn))
    ("2" ,@(seq-difference seq2 (seq-union seq1 seq3 test-fn) test-fn))
    ("3" ,@(seq-difference seq3 (seq-union seq1 seq2 test-fn) test-fn))
    ("1&2" ,@(seq-difference (seq-intersection seq1 seq2 test-fn) seq3 test-fn))
    ("1&3" ,@(seq-difference (seq-intersection seq1 seq3 test-fn) seq2 test-fn))
    ("2&3" ,@(seq-difference (seq-intersection seq2 seq3 test-fn) seq1 test-fn))
    ("1&2&3" ,@(seq-intersection (seq-intersection seq2 seq3 test-fn) seq1 test-fn))))
(defun my-three-way-comparison-report (label1 seq1 label2 seq2 label3 seq3 &optional test-fn)
  (let ((list (my-three-way-comparison seq1 seq2 seq3)))
    `((,(format "%s only" label1) ,@(assoc-default "1" list #'string=))
      (,(format "%s only" label2) ,@(assoc-default "2" list #'string=))
      (,(format "%s only" label3) ,@(assoc-default "3" list #'string=))
      (,(format "%s & %s" label1 label2) ,@(assoc-default "1&2" list #'string=))
      (,(format "%s & %s" label1 label3) ,@(assoc-default "1&3" list #'string=))
      (,(format "%s & %s" label2 label3) ,@(assoc-default "2&3" list #'string=))
      ("all" ,@(assoc-default "1&2&3" list #'string=)))))

(assert (equal (my-three-way-comparison '("A" "A&B" "A&C" "A&B&C" "A1")
                                        '("B" "A&B" "A&B&C" "B&C")
                                        '("C" "A&C" "A&B&C" "B&C"))
               '(("1" "A" "A1")
                 ("2" "B")
                 ("3" "C")
                 ("1&2" "A&B")
                 ("1&3" "A&C")
                 ("2&3" "B&C")
                 ("1&2&3" "A&B&C"))))

(let* ((later-than "2024-09-12")
       (earlier-than "2024-09-13")
       (results
        (mapcar (lambda (o)
                  (cons (car o)
                        (seq-map (lambda (o) (assoc-default 'uri o))
                                 (seq-filter (lambda (toot)
                                               (string< (assoc-default 'created_at toot)
                                                        earlier-than))
                                             (my-mastodon-fetch-posts-after
                                              (format "%stimelines/tag/emacs?count=40" (cdr o))
                                              later-than)))))
                `((mastodon-social . "https://mastodon.social/api/v1/")
                  (emacs-ch . "https://emacs.ch/api/v1/")
                  (my-instance . ""))))
       (intersections
        (let-alist results
          (my-three-way-comparison-report
           "mastodon.social"
           .mastodon-social
           "emacs.ch"
           .emacs-ch
           "my instance"
           .my-instance
           #'string=))))
  (mapcar
   (lambda (row)
     (list (elt row 0) (length (cdr row))
           (string-join
            (seq-map-indexed (lambda (o i)
                               (org-link-make-string o (number-to-string (1+ i))))
                             (cdr row))
            " ")))
   intersections))

Here's an Euler diagram visualizing it.

I love that I can tinker with mastodon.el to get it to combine the timelines. (I'm crossing the streams!) Yay Emacs!

tldr: I'm now at @sacha@social.sachachua.com .

Since the emacs.ch Mastodon instance is winding down, I decided to follow @technomancy's recommendation of GoToSocial as a Mastodon-compatibly lightweight ActivityPub surver. I set it up as a Docker container because I still don't trust myself when it comes to security, and I put it behind an Nginx reverse proxy because I already have my web server on port 443.

The issues I ran across were mostly user error. Instead of copying my Nginx config from one of my other subsites, I should probably have just started with the sample Nginx configuration from the documentation. Eventually I figured out that I needed the Host line and I didn't need the location /.well-known/ thing from my other config. I did add add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*'; to allow cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), though, so that I could use semaphore.social as needed.

I also used:

docker network list
docker network inspect gotosocial_gotosocial

to find the IP addresses I needed for my config.yaml:

log-level: "error"
host: "social.sachachua.com"
landing-page-user: "sacha"
letsencrypt-enabled: false
port: 8080
bind-address: "172.22.0.2"
trusted-proxies:
  - "127.0.0.1/32"
  - "172.22.0.1"
  - "172.22.0.2"

I don't have a lot of space left on my Linode virtual private server, so I set up GoToSocial in a 10 GB block storage volume (of which it is now using 2.5GB). I have backups enabled, but the automatic backups don't cover block storage. I think I can work around that with a crontab entry that copies the sqlite* files from gotosocial/data into a backup directory in a regular partition.

I like using mastodon.el to go through the #emacs hashtag to find interesting posts and conversations for Emacs News. Since I have a single-user instance, I might not find as many #emacs posts on my own server compared to emacs.ch or mastodon.social #emacs. GoToSocial doesn't support relays yet. Until I feel reasonably confident that I'm catching a pretty good selection of #emacs posts from the people I follow and the instances I federate with, I might also check against those other timelines.

I think I've gotten @sacha@sachachua.com pointing to @sacha@social.sachachua.com, so if you'd like to follow me on Mastodon or another ActivityPub-compatible service, you can add either ID. I usually toot links to my Emacs News posts. I'd like to do a little more microblogging to share what I'm learning and figuring out, since I notice my blog posts tend to get sidetracked by yak-shaving. =)

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  • UI Tweak - SVG Frames, follow-up
• Navigation:
  • Emacs setup for workspace/perspectives/persp-projectile/ibuffer (YouTube, @null_a@emacs.ch)
• Org Mode:
  • Isa Mert Gurbuz: Announcement: corg.el – Seamless auto completion for org-mode block headers
  • Alex Popescu: TIL Emacs Orgmode org-link-set-parameters
  • blk: text navigation on your terms (Reddit)
  • Starter site template for Org Mode + ox-hugo (@shom@fosstodon.org)
  • I wrote a package to help me read efficiently and deeply. Is it a bad idea? - org-zettel-ref-mode
• Denote:
  • Org-roam to Denote Migration Script
• Completion:
  • Helm 4.0 released (and no release notes) (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Maciej Barć / xgqt-elisp-lib-tailscale (@xgqt@emacs.ch)
  • Magit tip: add multiple remote push URLs by separating them with commas
  • ~puercopop/jujutsushi - A emacs interface to jujutsu - supports vc.el (@PuercoPop@mastodon.social)
• Shells:
  • Fancy lightweight prompts for Eshell and Zsh (Reddit)
  • Asynchronously set PATH in Emacs
• Doom Emacs:
  • Why I love doom emacs! (11:06)
• Fun:
  • I have commissioned an artist to draw an Emacs dragon
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Bill Wear: Why I'm in Sync with Emacs (HN)
  • My cycles of love and hate with Emacs
  • Mastodon thread about gems in Emacs
• Other:
  • unison-sync-mode for one- or two-way remote file syncing of projects with unison. (Reddit)
  • Gnosis (γνῶσις) | Spaced Repetition System for GNU Emacs | Thanos Apollo
  • Emacs: Edit keyboard macros
  • Заметки на Emacs/Linux/Android
  • Using Emacs and Termux on and Android 6 eInk ebook instead of a laptop. (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
• Emacs development:
  • EmacsWiki page for Emacs 30 (HN, @pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tip for file encoding fallbacks
    • Differences between the Emacs NS port and the Carbon port
    • Rough plan for adding child frames for TTYs
  • Fix handling of 'min-width' display property
  • Allow customizing partial-completion to be more like substring
  • Add command to copy contents in a diff-mode buffer
  • Fix two issues with 'window-deletable-p'
  • Add abnormal hook to determine which tabs to auto-widen
• New packages:
  • arscript-mode: Major mode for editing arscript files (MELPA)
  • consult-gh: Consulting GitHub Client (MELPA)
  • lox-ts-mode: Major mode for Lox using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • password-store-menu: A better, more complete UI for password-store (MELPA)
  • phpinspect: PHP parsing and code intelligence package (GNU ELPA)
  • roc-ts-mode: Roc programming language mode (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 24 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 29 0030 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs Tutorial - Part 1
• Emacs configuration:
  • tray: Transient menus for a wide variety of things [eventually, maybe]​
  • James Cherti: dir-config.el – Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el Elisp files to configure directory-specific settings (Github, Reddit)
  • ~johnhamelink/nix (master): home/modules/emacs/config.el - sourcehut git (@johnhamelink@emacs.ch)
  • yantar92's Emacs Config
  • scfrazer's Emacs Config
  • ptrv's Emacs Config
  • jixiuf's Emacs Config
  • Thaodan's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • nano-read: Alternative read functions for GNU Emacs - displays info on the right side
  • akib/emacs-popon: "Pop" floating text "on" a window
  • Ep575, Emacs Lisp, Command to Add HTML Attribute (01:08:01)
• Appearance:
  • James Dyer: Integrate Pywal Colors into Selected-Window-Accent-Mode for Wallpaper Accent Matching in Emacs
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ‘ef-eagle’ and ‘ef-owl’ are added to the ‘ef-themes’ (lobste.rs)
• Navigation:
  • Tip about using environment variables for named shortcuts in find-file
• Dired:
  • find-dired-by-size
  • Alvaro Ramirez: The dired abstraction (Reddit, lobste.rs)
• Writing:
  • jabbrv: Automatic Journal Title Abbreviation Package for LaTeX
• Org Mode:
  • james-stoup/emacs-org-mode-tutorial: A primer for users trying to make sense of Org Mode (@AndyScott@fosstodon.org)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Opening all links in an Org subtree
  • Implementing headline-local variables
  • corg.el - Auto-complete for block headers and their parameters (babel source blocks and Org dynamic blocks) (Reddit)
  • ~zondo/org-autoexport - Emacs package for auto-export of org files on save (@zondo@mathstodon.xyz)
  • eugeneandrienko/palm-sync-daemon: Simple synchronization between Palm device and OrgMode files (@evgandr@mas.to)
  • Org development:
    • org-toggle-inline-images-command: New command for C-c C-x C-v binding
    • etc/ORG-NEWS: Add reference to undocumented feature added in Org 9.7
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Alignment of image previews can be customized): Add missing entry
• Coding:
  • How to Setup Emacs for Web Development (18:05)
  • CIDER tip - persist REPL history to a file
  • Using LLDB on Emacs (dap-mode & dap-lldb & lldb-vscode) for macOS - 3D Real-Time Composition by hiroakit
  • I wrote a short vc-mode tutorial (Reddit)
  • How to specify git merge strategy in magit
  • Jonas Bernoulli: Forge 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 released (Reddit)
• Math:
  • nfdn: Contextual Interfaces in Casual Calc (HN)
• Shells:
  • Lambda Land: Fancy lightweight prompts for Eshell and Zsh
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • transient menu for mastodon (@holgerschurig@emacs.ch)
• Multimedia:
  • [Experimental] Transient interface for barebones ffmpeg conversions
  • theesm/mediathek.el: Search and play "Mediathek" videos. - Codeberg.org (@thees@emacs.ch)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-08 Austin Emacs Meetup - Doom Emacs, input methods, regex, calling commands
  • İsmail Efe: Why Use Emacs? (Reddit)
  • What is or why Emacs? | The Art Of Not Asking Why (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Lifetime benefits of using Emacs (@genegoykhman@mastodon.social, Irreal)
• Other:
  • Copying text out of diffs (@pkal@commenting.onthe.incoherenceofthe.net)
  • TIL Emacs registers - this is a god send for my day job! (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Emacs Way Of Reading Novels and Books Via Epub Version 2024_08_06_03:27:38
  • Alex Popescu: Emacs Optionally Saving Desktop on Exit With Confirmation
  • Gene Goykhman: Upgrading to Emacs 29.4 on Apple Silicon Macs
  • Portals in Emacs (lobste.rs) - another way to launch and manage processes
  • eva: Emacs-based Virtual Assistant (Reddit)
  • Chrome-Emacs is now available for Firefox
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Help wanted with MSDOS and Windows 98 ports as well; issues with unexec, portable dumping
      • maintenance burden of old platforms
      • experience report from Solaris - switched to portable dumper
  • Add abnormal hook to determine which tabs to auto-widen
  • Improve SHR/EWW support for 'visual-wrap-prefix-mode'
  • Drop fallback code in date-to-time, update documentation
• New packages:
  • dir-config: Automatically find and evaluate .dir-config.el (Flexible dir-locals alternative) (MELPA)
  • gleam-ts-mode: Major mode for Gleam (MELPA)
  • org-autoexport: Auto-export org file on save (MELPA)
  • plz-event-source: Plz Event Source (GNU ELPA)
  • poly-gams: Polymode for GAMS (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, communick.news, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!

Last year, I hoped to spend a lot of time playing outside with A+. Investing in a cargo bike has definitely helped with that, as we can more easily go on family bike adventures or head off to playdates. I've been learning more about playing inside with her as well, exploring Minecraft and figuring out how to work with the Minecraft Bedrock scripting API. This year A+ got into Star Wars and Harry Potter, so there's been lots and lots of reading, conversations, LEGO, Minecraft worlds, and pretend. I enjoy spending time with her. I think we're slowly starting to figure each other out.

We simplified the garden this year, and I feel like we've been able to water it more consistently. The bitter melon plants have been very productive, and the cherry tomatoes have been more than enough for our regular consumption.

If next year is much like this year (plus, of course, the things we'll experiment with and learn along the way), I think that'll be all right.