February 27th, 2021
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- I worked on improving my streaming setup:
- I used pulseaudio to mix my microphone and audio output into a combined source, and I tested that it worked with speech recognition. I used gstreamer to make a video stream that was delayed by four seconds. The audio was a little tricky because the snap’s gstreamer doesn’t seem to have alsa or pulseaudio support.
- I removed lots of old docker images from my laptop and my server, so now there’s a bit more space.
- I experimented with using impatient-mode to share live show notes.
- I tried using the TV as a second monitor, but typing on the coffee table was too awkward. I dusted off my Cintiq and set it up again.
- I did some other coding:
- I reset my iptables and ufw rules.
- I broke Quantified Awesome in the process of trying to fix the http/https issue. I managed to fix it, and I think I have a reasonable docker image for it at least for now. I also disabled sign-ups and added a warning message.
- Well, that was exciting. I needed to restore from my Linode backup because I deleted more files than I intended to. Fortunately, the backups worked!
- I thought about how to make playing with A- better:
- I bookmarked a random cat generator and a random shark generator to help with pretend scenarios.
- To make the shelter game more fun for me, I started sneaking in more pop culture references to see if I could make W- chuckle.
- I had fun drawing A- as a nurse shark pretending to be a great white shark, and A- as a nurse shark pretending to be a cave with “I will not eat you” and “Totally not a trap” signs. I’m getting more comfortable drawing from my imagination. (And hers!)
- We finished one of the Technic sets and started on another one. She occasionally pushed in pins, but mostly it was us building it. I think I might enjoy learning about Technic in the guise of playing with A-.
- W- cleared off lots of snow from the roof so that it would melt away from the house. He also cleared the snow from the eavestroughs, although the downspout was still frozen. He eventually melted the ice that was stuck in the downspout and rigged up a better way for it to drain.
Blog posts
Sketches
Time
Category |
The other week % |
Last week % |
Diff % |
h/wk |
Diff h/wk |
A- |
45.0 |
46.5 |
1.5 |
78.0 |
2.5 |
Sleep |
31.0 |
32.3 |
1.3 |
54.2 |
2.2 |
Discretionary – Productive |
10.5 |
11.6 |
1.0 |
19.5 |
1.8 |
Business |
0.1 |
1.0 |
0.9 |
1.7 |
1.6 |
Discretionary – Social |
0.0 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
Discretionary – Play |
0.6 |
0.2 |
-0.4 |
0.3 |
-0.7 |
Unpaid work |
4.1 |
2.6 |
-1.5 |
4.4 |
-2.5 |
Personal |
8.7 |
5.6 |
-3.2 |
9.4 |
-5.3 |
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February 22nd, 2021
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- Upcoming events:
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- Emacs Lisp:
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- Appearance:
- Org Mode:
- Coding:
- Mail and news:
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- Completion:
- Community:
- Other:
- New packages:
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February 20th, 2021
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- I got captions to flow from my phone to Node to Emacs to OBS to Twitch. There’s some delay, but it’s a good starting point that might come in handy for live captioning my own stuff.
- I added autocategorization to Emacs News.
- I tried out pretty-hydra.
- I wrote some commands to remotely control Geeqie from Emacs. They’re useful for quickly flipping through images.
- I added photoswipe to A-‘s learning stories.
- I spent some time tidying up my Org Mode inboxes. I’m actually reasonably up to date now, neat!
- We tried making yogurt from scratch, and it turned out all right.
- A- was a little curious about automata because of the Science Comics: Robots book, so I built the office worker automaton from JK Brickworks.
- A- started writing in response to class prompts. This is probably because the teacher asked the senior kindergarten students to write first before drawing, and A- prides herself on being able to keep up with the SK students even though she’s younger.
- We watched the livestream for the Mars 2020 mission.
Blog posts
Sketches
Time
Category |
The other week % |
Last week % |
Diff % |
h/wk |
Diff h/wk |
Sleep |
28.5 |
31.0 |
2.5 |
52.0 |
4.1 |
Unpaid work |
3.2 |
4.1 |
0.9 |
6.9 |
1.4 |
Discretionary – Play |
0.0 |
0.6 |
0.6 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
Personal |
8.2 |
8.7 |
0.6 |
14.7 |
0.9 |
A- |
44.6 |
45.0 |
0.3 |
75.5 |
0.6 |
Business |
0.2 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
0.1 |
-0.1 |
Discretionary – Productive |
15.3 |
10.5 |
-4.8 |
17.7 |
-8.0 |
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February 15th, 2021
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February 13th, 2021
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I think it might help to go to bed by midnight. It takes energy to be calm or enthusiastic, and the things I want to geek out about can wait. It means I have to prioritize more ruthlessly and not get carried away.
Things I did
- I couldn’t figure out how to send OBS captions on Linux or use the Twitch IRC interface to set markers, so I modified my message script to save stuff to a VTT file instead.
- I wrote some code to split a video and its subtitles based on the selected region in Emacs.
- I streamed while preparing Emacs News. I also tried out Embark, added Youtube to my Emacs News process, and added mic indicators to my timestamped notes.
- I started thinking about the second half of virtual kindergarten.
- I attended the EmacsSF meetup about completion.
Blog posts
Sketches
Time
Category |
The other week % |
Last week % |
Diff % |
h/wk |
Diff h/wk |
A- |
40.8 |
44.6 |
3.9 |
75.0 |
6.5 |
Personal |
6.5 |
8.2 |
1.7 |
13.7 |
2.9 |
Sleep |
27.5 |
28.5 |
1.0 |
47.9 |
1.6 |
Discretionary – Play |
0.1 |
0.0 |
-0.1 |
0.0 |
-0.2 |
Business |
1.5 |
0.2 |
-1.4 |
0.3 |
-2.3 |
Unpaid work |
5.4 |
3.2 |
-2.2 |
5.4 |
-3.6 |
Discretionary – Productive |
18.2 |
15.3 |
-2.9 |
25.7 |
-4.9 |
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February 8th, 2021
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- Upcoming events:
- EmacsSF: Discussion of emacs in general and completion frameworks in particular https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/276234974/ Fri Feb 12 1000 Vancouver / 1200 Chicago / 1300 Toronto / 1800 GMT / 1900 Berlin / 2330 Kolkata // Sat Feb 13 0200 Singapore
- EmacsFFM: Creating our own major mode (virtual) https://www.meetup.com/emacs-ffm/events/275881281/ Wed Feb 17 1100 Vancouver / 1300 Chicago / 1400 Toronto / 1900 GMT / 2000 Berlin // Thu Feb 18 0030 Kolkata / 0300 Singapore
- Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 24 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1730 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2300 Kolkata // Thu Feb 25 0130 Singapore
- Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Feb 27 0030 Vancouver / 0230 Chicago / 0330 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 0930 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
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