Torstein Krause Johansen

Coder of systems, lover of languages, follower of Christ. 台灣女婿

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skybert_at_emacs.ch@mostr.pub

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2024-08-03 09:58:51

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 majestic! Would love to go some time.

2024-07-27 00:42:49

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 congratulations 🎉

2024-06-21 08:43:09

Love my beautifully simple music player: mpv running in kitty.
Transparency with picom and the awesome wallpaper from #GarudaLinux (just git cloned their wallpaper repo).
I operate the mpv music player via an IPC socket, so shortcuts work just like against my native Spotify app.
#linux #archlinux #DesktopFriday #unixporn
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2024-04-22 06:22:14

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Looks awesome. Like a scene from Star Wars!

2024-04-20 06:51:06

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 wish you a great holiday!

2024-04-16 09:58:52

I would like to give a shout out to all the excellent people on emacs.ch. You are not only passionate about Emacs and Lisp, but also friendly, fun and always willing to help out.
Thank you for you being you.
#emacs

2024-04-10 06:25:01

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@npub10jl…yfat hi Say, just wanted to tell you that our art is awesome.
My favourite of the four is the colour wheel. Love how Elaine and Guybrush connect across. So much detail and charm.

2024-04-04 11:17:50

TIL Firefox lets you edit PDFs directly in the browser. You can both enter text with the keyboard and draw on the PDF. When you're done, Firefox then lets you save the edited version of the document to disk.
Awesome!
Tested on Firefox 124.0.2
#firefox #productivity

2024-04-01 14:25:47

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 my pleasure. X2

2024-04-01 07:19:15

Happy Easter everyone! 🐣🐰
#easter #crosscountryskiing #skiing #norway
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2024-03-06 07:55:59

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 impressive. Especially the annotation bit.

2024-03-05 20:24:25

Yes! Got remote Java debugging working in Emacs using eglot and dape! 🎉
https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/commit/ecdfa8b6c7cb1ba7c23870dcfb9bd2b26a0ae7ed
#emacs #java #debugging

2024-03-04 10:22:38

TIL you can browse all packages pacman knows about, installed and not by writing:
$ pacman -Slq | fzf --preview 'pacman -Si {}' --layout=reverse
This gives you fzf fuzzy search and excellent TUI display of each package and their meta data.
Totally awesome IMHO.
As always, there's even more in the treasure chest: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman/Tips_and_tricks
#linux #archlinux #commandline

2024-02-24 18:34:13

Writing my own editor using Python and Kivy. Currently, it loads in fullscreen, very vim like, has Markdown syntax highlighting, reads file and save the file again when the app loses focus.
Extremely basic, but close to what I want for my new Android editor:
Loads fast
Markdown support.
No fluff, text is king.
Does the world need another editor? Absolutely not.
Am I having fun? Oh, yes.
#python

2024-02-20 19:58:29

I find it really odd that Emacs doesn't ship with a builtin Markdown mode. Every time I start with a fresh .emacs.d I'm surprised that my .md files are all in black and white and I must do a
M-x package-install RET markdown-mode
M-x revert-buffer
Note a huge deal, and with something like (use-package :ensure t) I'm all good, but it's still surprising. I mean, Emacs even has a mode for WordStar!
#emacs #markdown

2024-02-14 12:12:57

UltraEdit is the most flexible, powerful, and secure text editor.
That can't be right.
https://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit/
#emacs

2024-02-12 19:38:44

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 I did consider Mint, but past experiences has been that, although it's great, there are rough edges once you get past the default-install-with-English-language-and-default-apps-and-peripherals scenario.
I'm a big fan of #system76 and their Pop!_OS, but wouldn't recommend it to a newbie over Ubuntu since there are way more articles and forums related to Ubuntu than Pop.
Cool to hear of your past experience converting Windows users!

2024-02-12 14:09:45

Which distro would you recommend a user coming over from Windows?
Today, I got this question. The person has been a developer on the Windows platform for many years and is comfortable both with RTFMing and using the command line.
As much as I liked to scream Arch Linux!!! Or failing that, Debian!!! I actually said ... Ubuntu.
Comes pre-installed on Dell and Lenovo laptops
Great OOTB experience
Great online resources as well as printed books.
Even some commercial software has an Ubuntu version.
What do you think?
#linux #debian #ubuntu #windows

2024-02-08 21:52:35

My editor journey: From edit in MS/DOS, via UltraEdit and Visual Studio to the safe haven of Emacs.
https://skybert.net/various/my-editor-journey/
#emacs #editor #windows #msdos #linux
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2024-01-26 07:16:06

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1h5d…emws I've written this crash course for getting UTF-8 to work everywhere, including Emacs, have a read if you want: https://skybert.net/craftsmanship/utf-8-for-the-impatient/
As for OpenBSD: I like it too. Like a lot. I think it's best suited for me if I could use it for work (but I can't, currently). In my spare time, I just want to relax, watch Netflix, HBO and play games. So after running OpenBSD for a while, I went back to Linux.

2024-01-08 21:35:10

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1tfj…9rng looks awesome! Been following Haiku for years, cheering on the sidelines by it never actually trying it out. Been happy enough with Linux and OpenBSD.

2024-01-07 12:12:12

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 thanks, mate.

2024-01-06 21:43:08

It was pretty cold today, -28°C, but the weather and nature were spectacular and the tracks were great, giving me an amazing day, skiing from the north to the south end of the forest.
Grateful, happy and knackered.
#skiing #crosscountryski #norway
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2023-12-25 10:54:30

printf "Hello world, Merry Christmas!\n"
#christmas #bash

2023-12-19 09:22:40

Are you constantly typing your SSH key password? By using ssh-agent [1], you'll reduce this to once a day, maximum. More likely, you'll do it once for the entire uptime of your machine.
#unix #linux #ssh #security
[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ssh-agent.1.html

2023-11-08 15:20:11

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Thanks for creating emacs.ch, @npub1fzx…t6h3 . It's by far my favourite place on the internet.
Such a nice place to hang out, read and learn. I wish we all one day could meet up IRL.

2023-10-20 10:31:45

Wrote an article on DNS & server exploration from the command line. Hope it may be useful.
https://skybert.net/linux/dns-server-exploration-from-the-command-line/
#dns #network #unix #linux #bash

2023-10-15 13:08:37

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 You mean altitude? I started at 849 metres above sea level and the peak was at 1089 metres.

2023-10-15 13:07:45

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 I started at 849 metres above sea level and the peak was at 1089 metres.

2023-10-15 08:37:20

Fantastic views on last weeks morning run.
#trailrunning #mountaineering #norway
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2023-10-09 20:12:35

After 2 months of running a vanilla Emacs 29.1 on my home computer, I must confess I have tweaked it a tiny bit.
I'm currently at 8 lines and am pretty pleased with the result. Eight lines isn't too bad, is it? Lets see how I'm holding out after two more months!
The 8 lines I cannot live without can be found here: https://gitlab.com/skybert/my-little-friends/-/blob/master/emacs/.emacs.minimal
#emacs
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2023-09-25 07:49:14

I took a good few notes during Open Source Summit in Bilbao last week. For quick and distraction free editing, i used Emacs and Org mode.
Creating a Confluence page afterwards was only a matter of:
In Emacs, do M-x ox-jira-export-as-jira
create new page in Confluence (or blog post)
Select to insert "Markup"
Paste in the Jira markup export from Emacs
Done!
Quotes, code blocks, lists, head lines. Everything perfectly formatted the Confluence way.
#emacs #orgmode #jira #confluence #OSSummit

2023-09-21 17:40:53

Roundet off this year's Open Source Summit in Bilbao with d@berto@floss.social excellent talk on SteamOS.
Man, what an awesome accomplishment you and the other heros have made to make this great gaming platform. Teamed with Valve's bold move to support Linux and build this amazing handheld computer makes this the definite year of the Linux desktop.
#linux #gaming #linuxgaming #steamdeck #OSSummit #bilbao #spain
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2023-09-17 15:48:33

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My pleasure, @npub1fzx…t6h3

2023-09-17 11:18:06

Got up early this Sunday to bike into the midst of the forest. It's so beautiful to watch it wake up: the mist on the water, the sun coming through the branches
It's been many years since I biked this far, but the funny thing is, I feel more energised now after coming home from my 42k than I did starting out.
Have a nice Sunday everyone!
#biking #forest #norway #training #mountainbiking
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2023-08-16 11:36:42

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 @npub1xth…49e7 what do you use for sharing picture with friends and family?
I've used Synology, but it's a far cry away from the features of Google Photos.

2023-08-08 10:52:12

Lazyvim is so incredibly slick, well thought out, pretty and fast, I almost think about leaving Emacs for it 😍
#lazyvim #vim #neovim #emacs

2023-06-29 15:18:15

I wrote this wee elisp function to URI encode the active region.
It saves me two trips to @npub1c35…9pmh's excellent URL encoder & decoder every day, at least!
#emacs #http

2023-06-16 07:11:58

TIL if you middle click on a link in Firefox, it'll open that link in a new tab in the background. Man, I've been wanting this for a long time!
My mouse doesn't have a middle mouse button, but clicking the scroll wheel does the job just fine.
#firefox #productivity

2023-05-16 05:43:30

This is impressive: Snake implemented in 88 lines of BASH.
It runs about 10 times slower on my machine than in the screencast, but still, extremely cool!
https://github.com/wick3dr0se/snake
#bash #gaming #unix