Now, also, I have an evil plan.
My evil plan is that
this is a good way for me to get ideas and
convert them into blog posts and code and
then do the workflow demos, because it's
sometimes really difficult to see how to use
something from just the code.
This process is fun.
Tweaking Emacs is fun for me.
Also, if I do this out loud,
other people can help out with questions and
comments, like the way that you're all doing
now, which is great. Fantastic.
Of course, those are all very selfish
reasons. So I'm hoping other people are
getting something out of this too.
(Hello, 19 people who are
watching, and also for some reason,
the hundreds of people who check these videos
out afterwards. Great,
fantastic.) I'm hoping you pick up some
ideas from the crazy things that we like to
play with in terms of Emacs.
My medium-term plan there is then to
start seeing how those ideas get transformed
when they get bounced off other people and
other people bounce ideas back.
Because that's one of the fun things about
Emacs, right? Everything is so personalizable
that seeing how one workflow idea gets
transformed into somebody else's life,
you learn something from that process.
I'm really looking forward to how
bouncing ideas around will work here.
Especially if we can find little things
that make doing things more fun or they make
it take less effort--then maybe more people
will share more things,
and then I get to learn from that also,
which is fantastic because long term,
this can help build up an archive.
Then people can go into that archive and find
things without necessarily waiting for me.
I don't become the bottleneck.
People can just go in there and find...
"Oh, you remember that time that I saw this
interesting idea about SVG highlighting or
whatever." You can just go in there and
try to find more information.
So that's great. Then ideally,
as people find the things that resonate with
them, the cool demos that say
this text editor can be
extended to do audio editing and animation
and all that crazy stuff,
then more people will come and join and share
what they're learning,
and then move on to building stuff maybe for
themselves and for other people,
and then it'll be even more amazing.
And lastly, this is kind of odd,
but having listened in the background to so
many of the kiddo's current viewing habits,
her favorite YouTube channels like J Perm or
Cubehead or Tingman for Rubik's cube videos
or Eyecraftmc for Minecraft,
I'm beginning to appreciate kind of the value
of having these mental models of other people
in your head.
I can imagine how they talk and all that
stuff. I am looking forward to
watching more Emacs videos,
which I haven't done in a while because
usually for Emacs News,
I'm just skimming through the transcripts
super quickly on account of (A),
lots of videos and (B),
not much time. So this idea of getting
other people's voices into your head, or
possibly becoming a voice in somebody's head,
I think there might be something interesting
there. Of course,
the buzz these days is,
"oh no, AI voice cloning,
this is a safety issue and all of that stuff."
But I think there are positive uses for this
as well, in the sense that... As qzump says,
you know, they are like,
"I have no Emacs friends and you're speaking to
my soul." A lot of us are doing this in
isolation. We don't normally meet other
people. So the more voices we can have in
our heads of actual people who enjoy doing
these things, the less weird we feel.
Or actually, more like... the more weird we
feel, but in a good way,
like there's a tribe, right?
If sharing more ideas in a multimedia sort
of way, like with either audio narration with
images or this webcam thing that we're
trying (my goodness, I have to actually
dress up) helps people build these
mental models in their head...
Hey, one of the nice things about this webcam
thing is I can make hand gestures.
Cool, cool.
Might be interesting. If, while you're
hacking on Emacs,
you can imagine me
cheering you on and saying,
"That's fantastic. Have you thought about
writing a blog post about that so that we
get that into Planet
Emacs Life and, and then into Emacs News?
Please share what you're learning."
It'll be great. So, yeah,
maybe that's a thing. So that's my evil plan
for Yay Emacs.