Here are the steps to create a new advent calendar.

Everyday Advent Calendar for work with the theme film stills from famous shots of films featuring famous windows!

On a previous post I created an elisp function to quickly duplicate a file or directory in dired, by default it would copy the dired item under the cursor to an old suffix or append a number based on the universal argument.

More improvements to my weight loss table, this time I have added the following:

For a while now I have been looking for a simple method in emacs for trimming down my largest files, usually this means locating those large image files and compressing them as I like keeping my media compressed or deleting any large files I didn't know were lurking around my system.

I'm currently in the process of learning how to create graphical plots from org tables using gnuplot. I've noticed that it's generally more straightforward to extract x-axis data from an org table column with incrementing numbers, as opposed to relying on gnuplot to potentially sort out data from an existing column (which may not be plot-friendly)

Now I have a weight loss org table defined and therefore an easy way to track the total amount of weight loss each week I had an idea for an improvement with some form of a satisfying graphical representation.

I have been using C-RET or W in dired for a while now to open a file externally via browse-url-of-dired-file.

For a while now I have been using org tables to represent and calculate pieces of data, obviating the need to open up a normal spreadsheet.

I am a tinkerer and of course emacs is a perfect vehicle for this mentality. A prime example of this is my constant evolving modeline. For many years the default modeline hasn't presented itself as being a problem, but is it optimal for me?, the answer I have now realised is no, and I think I can do better for my use cases.

I have now managed to set up my external USB numeric keypad on Linux using kmonad which lets me use any regular plugged-in number keypad as a shortcut tool for my digital art.

It is not uncommon for me to want to revert my current buffer.

Simply put here is me playing around with emacs transparency using alpha-background to set up sway the way I want it to look - I think there is some kind of well known term for this! (no neofetch involved 🙂)

Using notepad and biro and Krita for another doodle!

Now I have set (pixel-scroll-precision-mode 1) which comes with emacs 29 this has led to an unexpected issue in that I now often get the following messages which cause a bell sound to be generated each time:

I have just been been going through the new features added to emacs 29.1 and have been trying out the transparency or alpha-background on sway.

I am using the styli.sh script as my wallpaper changer in sway and with a little transparency and wallpapers from unsplash I can quickly switch randomly through my wallpaper images and get things looking pretty nice.

After watching the latest informative video from Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot):

Demonstration of the new demo impasto RGBA brushes in Krita 5.2 nightly build on Sway.

I am just starting to include more of my org files into org-agenda. By default C-c a a gives a show for the next 7 days but I think for now I would like something of a more calendarish overview with a long form look of scheduled and completed tasks.

Often I find myself refining my collection of photos and family videos, usually with the following process:

Doodling again from notepad to krita to painter using various samsung tablets

Doodling again from notepad -> krita -> painter

I use Hugo to generate my web site and I made a decision early on to use ox-hugo withing emacs and to manage a single large org file with each subheading a blog post and each subheading tag representing… well, tags! I was aware of the concept of defining categories but decided to sort that out at a later date until I really understood what I was doing - this is a common thing that I do.