James Endres Howell has moved!

Very sad to say goodbye to emacs.ch.

Thanks again, @louis, and everyone else.

Find me now: @james
https://social.howellcloud.org/@james

Public Key

npub1p297l828qnh8mqql2pl0507u7vuv3466k83cpcruds7c0s88n2aqkvmqaw

NIP-05 Address

jameshowell_at_emacs.ch@mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsq4zl0n4rsfmnasq04qlh68lw0xwxg6adtrcuqup7xc0v8crne4ws7sl44t

Author Public Key

npub1p297l828qnh8mqql2pl0507u7vuv3466k83cpcruds7c0s88n2aqkvmqaw

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2024-09-06 20:47:38

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@npub127e…sjmm Bleah. Glad I just moved to Debian rather than go from 22.04 to 24.04. Sorry!

2024-09-06 01:05:39

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@npub1p9t…mltx My favorite bookstore on Earth

2024-09-06 00:56:21

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@npub127e…sjmm Wayland is the default, but I'm fairly certain you can log into Xorg too.
https://itsfoss.com/switch-xorg-wayland/

2024-09-05 23:52:23

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@npub127e…sjmm For single-site browser apps, try Epiphany.
sudo apt install epiphany-browser
https://apps.gnome.org/Epiphany/

2024-09-05 23:50:34

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@npub127e…sjmm Try Autokey for text expansion. It doesn't work under Wayland, but that's because Wayland apparently precludes that sort of functionality by design.
https://github.com/autokey/autokey

2024-09-05 22:10:16

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@npub17z6…4mp8 ACTUALLY blah blah blah blah blah OBVIOUSLY blah blah blah blah blah blah blah HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY blah blah blah WE CANNOT HELP IT blah blah blah

2024-09-05 22:00:45

New blog post: Viva Argentina! Viva Ciencia! Viva la Tierra Redonda! https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-05-viva-argentina-viva-ciencia-viva-la-tierra-redonda.html

2024-09-05 12:05:49

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@npub174e…axnq Cela dépend. Le pécheur est-il milliardaire ?

2024-09-05 12:00:04

Un sincère merci aux Français ce matin pour avoir organisé une diversion politique internationale honteuse pour interrompre les campagnes présidentielles aux États-Unis

2024-09-04 17:35:16

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@npub143l…q9zn I don't make the rules.
Baked bite sized crunchy wheat cookies floating in milk is cereal. No amount of salt or Cheez powder makes it not cereal.

2024-09-04 17:21:07

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@npub143l…q9zn Pour milk on them. Are they not cereal now?

2024-09-03 01:21:25

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@npub1u2r…4urs ZOMG I AM EMACS NEWS FAMOUS [faints]

2024-09-02 21:23:48

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@npub1sg4…xslc WHAT WAS THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS?
$0

2024-09-02 21:20:03

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@npub16f0…0x9x Congratulations! Best wishes to you both! So adorable

2024-09-02 21:15:24

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@npub1pue…dpuv DEGAUSS
"pfwummppf"

2024-09-02 17:44:40

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@npub1k8g…tu8f Just don't tell her that I already revoked an emacs.ch API key that I committed to a public repo herp a derp

2024-09-02 17:19:54

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Me:
Wife: Why the grin?
Me: I made a thing so I post to my blog and it announces it to Mastodon and replies on Mastodon are comments on the blog
Wife: I HOPE IT DOESN'T GET HACKED

2024-09-02 17:08:45

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@npub1gs0…va3q You appear to get LITERAL degradation 😆

2024-09-02 16:55:11

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@npub1fzx…t6h3 Thanks! Now that it (kind of) works I'll make some tests, wrap it up into a proper package to share, and write an update explaining how to use it.

2024-09-02 16:51:20

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@npub1gs0…va3q okay NOW you can look

2024-09-02 16:50:24

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Dear Lord, no less than @npub1fzx…t6h3 BOOSTED this one before I could delete it. Good thing it kinda worked!

2024-09-02 16:48:07

New blog post: Embedding Mastodon comments with org-static-blog and Emfed https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-01-adding-mastodon-comments-with-org-static-blog.html

2024-09-02 15:40:25

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@npub1gs0…va3q DISCLAIMER YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED

2024-09-02 15:39:52

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@npub1gs0…va3q Yeahhh uhhhh "latest blog post" is a live public comedy of debugging a rat's nest of "New blog post:" hacks
#humiliation

2024-09-02 15:37:08

New blog post: Adding Mastodon comments with org-static-blog https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-01-adding-mastodon-comments-with-org-static-blog.html

2024-09-02 15:36:07

New blog post: /home/jeh/.repos/org-static-blog/org-static-blog-emfed.org https://jamesendreshowell.com/org-static-blog-emfed.html

2024-09-02 15:31:06

New blog post:

2024-09-02 15:27:20

New blog post:

2024-09-02 02:37:52

Message blah: Title Goes Here https://example.com

2024-09-02 02:35:42

<b>funny-looking</b> uptight nerd

2024-09-02 02:35:13

funny-looking uptight nerd

2024-09-02 02:21:03

<p>New blog post: Testing the waters</p>https://example.com

2024-09-02 02:09:38

Testing.

2024-09-02 01:51:31

Testing.

2024-09-02 00:47:25

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@npub18s8…euvh It's the only one I've ever used.

2024-09-01 16:12:38

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@npub1zgl…rqd7 We still accept you

2024-08-31 18:02:19

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@npub1pue…dpuv Dude I have LITERALLY been relying on YOU for a YEAR

2024-08-31 13:16:30

He shows love to his sister the same way he shows love to me
#caturday #littermates
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/056/810/459/834/178/original/47b7ca2047e6e1f5.jpeg

2024-08-31 05:21:54

I guess it's encouraging that other guys have this problem?
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/054/946/660/600/729/original/3a9468728354d05c.jpeg

2024-08-30 15:32:12

I had them submit a tell-me-about-yourself and what-did-you-learn-today:
"Definitely looking forward to this class. Also, I love your work in School of Rock and Kung Fu Panda 1 and 2."
#brownnosers

2024-08-28 17:30:12

@npub16u7…uend You're on the front page of HN!
(Incidentally, you make very strong and interesting arguments and you make them well)
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/

2024-08-28 17:26:25

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever had three hundred pairs of eyes on you at the very instant when the look hits them all that the question you just asked forces them to doubt everything they thought they knew and now they have to change their minds
#teaching #centraldogma

2024-08-26 21:48:26

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@npub1sh4…32nx Love the melody and the production style! Still, I finish listening with no new encouraging feelings for my ability to persuade my mouth to produce Polish phonology

2024-08-26 21:39:07

In my MID TWENTIES I realized the alphabet song has the same melody as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
TODAY aged 54 it hit me that Sting's "I want my MTV" part in "Money for Nothing" has the same melody as "Don't Stand So Close to Me"
I AM GETTING WORSE AT THIS GAME

2024-08-25 15:46:28

If it wasn't for bad kitties I wouldn't have any kitties
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/023/352/155/771/573/original/79e2510ee220d0e7.jpg

2024-08-25 15:04:15

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@npub1a6p…xrvr For me, Org mode cleanly divides into two eras, 2008-2018, before I discovered org-narrow-to-subtree, and 2018-present, when Org mode became comfortably useful.

2024-08-24 16:31:05

Well, these two are ready for classes to start on Monday at least
#caturday
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/113/017/940/858/576/151/original/c3241c1138bacb39.jpeg

2024-08-20 15:46:36

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@npub15yt…q3w6 The code is transparent and squeaky clean. It does everything I want with zero cruft. I'm so happy I finally found it.

2024-08-20 15:00:19

It pains me that my poor wife is (justifiably!) jaded about work, so sadly I am not able to be excited about the new semester in private: I have to confine my enthusiasm to quiet public expression

2024-08-20 13:16:02

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@npub1c0t…xct2 Etar?
https://f-droid.org/packages/ws.xsoh.etar/

2024-08-20 04:12:34

blah

2024-08-20 03:32:27

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 03:28:42

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 02:34:11

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 02:32:17

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 02:31:26

New blog post: https://jamesendreshowell.com

2024-08-20 02:29:57

New blog post: https://jamesendreshowell.com

2024-08-20 02:24:02

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 02:23:05

Testing: https://example.com

2024-08-20 01:48:44

Testing: www.psu.edu

2024-08-20 01:26:43

New blog post: https://jamesendreshowell.com

2024-08-20 01:24:21

New blog post: (TITLE)\nhttps://jamesendreshowell.com

2024-08-20 01:23:30

Testing. https://jamesendreshowell.com

2024-08-20 01:17:17

Posting via curl and my access token

2024-08-19 17:14:53

When I first started teaching, "screwed like the guys stuck on Mir" relied on a reference that still worked. It aged RAPIDLY.
Today we can just say "doomed like a Boeing passenger"
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-acknowledges-it-cannot-quantify-risk-of-starliner-propulsion-issues/

2024-08-18 19:56:11

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@npub159j…zh5a Thanks to you!

2024-08-18 17:39:41

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@npub1usu…sy98 I can see the advantages of either approach (Fastmail vs. the forges), and I trust sourcehut and Codeberg, but I just prefer to have multiple independent points of failure.

2024-08-18 17:37:14

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All I can say is thank you so much, yet again, @npub1fzx…t6h3, for making the space for this wonderful community.
I genuinely marvel at how much I have learned, and how fond I have become of so many of you, in the past year.

2024-08-18 17:01:03

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@npub1xt5…chsn Love this.

2024-08-18 15:41:32

Jimmy Carter wants to reach one hundred and vote for Harris. But the historical moment I'm spitefully living for is in about fourteen months when JD Vance publishes his bitch-assedly vengeful tell-all, directly contradicting everything he said in 2024 to the letter, and journalists who also can't be arsed to read the thing plagiarize one others' AI summarizes to me

2024-08-18 15:31:13

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Old guy? Old web.
Old web? Old guy.

2024-08-18 15:16:08

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@npub1y0r…a7wq "In honor of void [black cat] appreciation day, I will share [one photographic] frame with you. Okay now back to attention on me. Okay, thanks, bye."

2024-08-18 03:17:49

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@npub1fh8…hm0p Yes, Emfed is by far the most straightforward method for embedding a Mastodon feed at the moment.

2024-08-18 00:38:24

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@npub1cuc…xury Sorry!

2024-08-18 00:25:51

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@npub1cuc…xury Uhhhh LOL
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/980/176/723/977/566/original/5694b50b3ce93de9.png

2024-08-18 00:18:18

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Comments worked for me!

2024-08-18 00:16:56

Hey, gang! I made a blog!
(I'm extra proud of the comments via Mastodon. Please help me test it!)
https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-08-17-my-first-blog-post.html

2024-08-18 00:02:46

Hey, gang! I made a blog!
(I'm extra proud of the comments via Mastodon. Please help me test it!)

2024-08-17 15:32:34

Musk: Dachau and Auschwitz were death camps but now they're nice museums.
Trump: That's great.
Musk: So calling people vermin is not as scary as people think.
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/978/057/820/283/798/original/981d2f121d8f4264.png

2024-08-17 15:25:09

#blackcatappreciationday #caturday
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/978/041/836/767/095/original/559553b9db956e53.jpg

2024-08-17 15:13:16

IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK: moronic billionaires agree nuclear war isn't so scary!
In this week's IT fiasco, the hackers owned ... [squints at teleprompter] ... the Anglosphere?

2024-08-16 02:56:33

Tired: "LITERALLY"
Wired: "LITERATELY"
#orgbabel #literateprogramming #literateconfig

2024-08-15 19:55:14

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@npub1cuc…xury LOL
I mean I LITERALLY loled

2024-08-15 16:47:55

Sheffield, Pennsylvania UP THE IRONS!!
#ironmaiden #666
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/967/048/779/114/811/original/4df8abbce3704653.jpeg

2024-08-14 20:50:13

Delighted to see more videos from @npub1w66…rc58 popping up! Highly recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9rpQA6O3aM

2024-08-14 20:46:56

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@npub1wl6…5hu7 Mac and cheese with chicken fingers

2024-08-14 17:27:18

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@npub1wl6…5hu7 my inner child is all NOOOOOO YAAAAAH NONT WANNA WORK YOU'RE NOT THE BOSSA MEEEEE NNNNNNGGGG so it's like literally the best start to a workday

2024-08-14 15:44:35

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@npub19fg…u6fe mmmmmmmmayybe

2024-08-13 16:26:14

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@npub189n…satx Yes, and the shame extends right down to the rank and file in both industries. I myself am stained with that shame, mind you.

2024-08-13 16:24:09

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@npub1kl0…j8nj wait not like that

2024-08-13 16:22:48

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@npub189n…satx also perfectly happy to whore itself to outright fascists

2024-08-13 16:22:25

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@npub189n…satx Also built on a self-proclaimed mythology of its service of Enlightenment values, also a shameless whore to capital

2024-08-13 16:20:03

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@npub189n…satx Don't forget higher education!

2024-08-13 16:19:16

I would like to have these keys back, please
https://media.emacs.ch/media_attachments/files/112/955/615/298/793/815/original/9975062716e827ee.png

2024-08-13 01:24:15

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@npub175k…wdyf My mother was born in Sale. So was Karl Pilkington. Two facts to go with your limerick

2024-08-12 15:27:24

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@npub199m…pfkp IT WILL NEVER DIE

2024-08-12 03:27:21

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@npub1l5g…wvq0 From the looks of it, I just don't have the thing configured properly.

2024-08-12 02:55:12

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@npub1l5g…wvq0 Turns out! The jabber package, an XMPP client, was calling it! I never use it so I took it out.
Good stuff to learn about, anyway.

2024-08-12 02:45:01

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@npub1l5g…wvq0 Thank you! Reading the manual now.

2024-08-11 22:00:18

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@npub1hhj…5lum LOL I hate the future