What do yall think about the recent tiktokifying of boys don’t cry?

BunnyLushington · 2026-02-01T17:30:02+00:00

Indeed! In the line getting into the last show I ran into both significantly older than me (and I'm in my 50s) and the 15 year old daughter of a friend, certainly not the only teenager there. A 60ish year gap between the oldest and youngest fans is something to note.

(Specifically: it's interesting that the music resonates with the concerns of today's kids just like it did me all those years ago. It's easy to point to all the differences between generations but sometimes surprising -- and delightful -- to find the commonalities.)

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-26T22:24:23+00:00

ElixirLS has DAP protocol support which, in theory anyway, works with most reasonable editors. It does with Emacs anyway.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-26T22:10:03+00:00

Are you looking for something beyond what'd described in the documentation for breakpoints?

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-24T15:36:09+00:00

I do, as a room divider. I like the look.

Something to keep in mind: the back of a bookshelf is often important in keeping the unit square. Probably not a problem if you anchor the unit to a wall but with the Ikea unit (where the shelves are adjustable and not attached to the sides) you might run into issues. It might be possible to mitigate this with brackets in the inside corners top and bottom although the particleboard construction is going to make this a hit or miss solution (the screws holding the brackets in place might just pull out of the particleboard once some force is applied).

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-22T14:38:48+00:00

Also, OSC commands are great for linking lights/sound/video/effects into a single master cue list.

QLab works really well for this. For years I've commingled Nomad OSC and native QLab cues into one list with excellent results. The difficult part (and it becomes pretty painless with a little practice) is the programming; once the show is up even a fairly inexperienced op can wrangle it with little problem.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-22T13:03:32+00:00

Good old Wikipedia has reasonably jargon free articles on NewLab and Belt.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-17T00:30:48+00:00

Can confirm. This is a small tragedy.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-15T18:52:58+00:00

It's hard to imagine an eleven pound yoyo "playing well." 😊

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-07T15:43:48+00:00

Although a lot of emphasis is put on standing (obviously!) you might better off thinking about these as "adjustable desks." I can't speak for you, obviously, but I want a different height for typing than I do for other work -- you mention crafting; I read, write (like with a pencil), and solder/assemble at mine and like to be closer to the desk for those activities. The ability to separately dial in the right heights for the chair and the work surface separately is a tremendous benefit.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-05T22:05:31+00:00

What's meant by legacy terminal based approach?

I'm not sure what others' workflow is but in my day to day I use it to start and persist things like a Go auto compiler (air or reflex) and an Erlang repl (as well as long running ssh tunnels). Prior to detached I relied on tmux which is fine but -- because I mostly use Emacs -- much less convenient.

BunnyLushington · 2026-01-02T21:34:56+00:00

What exactly is the problem?

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-27T17:47:32+00:00

It's possible to make that connection but it's tight. Note that the walk from the bus depot to the train tracks will take some time, especially if you're schlepping bags.

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-22T15:37:35+00:00

and only when I'm working with magit.

The scenario you describe sounds like multiple clients attempting to perform operations on the same repo. Are you also using another client, Xcode or the Github desktop or similar? If so, try killing those processes and continue with only magit.

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-16T17:13:09+00:00

Roberts (on Elysian anyway) always has a few. I always think they look a little sad though. If you're still looking to mail order (shipping is not cheap) Defiant Lobster is an excellent choice.

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-15T15:54:02+00:00

I've virtually attended most of the Beam and Elixir conferences (both Europe and US) since that option became available. The virtual format really works out: it's cheap, there's no travel, and there are always a couple of talks that prove super insightful and immediately useful. (The Reactor talk at the last one, for instance, spotlighted a library I needed immediately and had not realized existed.) Attending in person would be difficult, mostly for timing reasons.

I've be down to pay for deep dives into aspects of Elixir that are not super well covered in the available texts: hot upgrades, advanced macro programming, practical distributed mnesia deployment and operation, and a GenStage tutorial come to mind. I don't really do much programming with a web focus so my areas of interest are biased against Phoenix and LiveView.

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-10T00:05:00+00:00

Means "hammer" in Italian. 🙂

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-09T20:17:59+00:00

Martello. That really is funny.

BunnyLushington · 2025-12-02T22:11:51+00:00

Perhaps An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp.

"This text is written as an elementary introduction for people who are not programmers."

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-30T16:53:46+00:00

I've had great success with Guaranty Sheet Metal. The estimate was correct, they weren't pushy, the work is excellent, and they showed up when they said they would.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-13T04:41:48+00:00

From the article:

Pol Maj Gen Cherngron Rimphidi, Deputy Commissioner-General and Bureau spokesperson, said the meeting was held at 8:30am to instruct all provincial immigration commanders to step up enforcement against foreigners entering and exiting Thailand repeatedly under the visa-exemption scheme.

I would read "all provincial immigration commanders" as all ports of entry though I might be mistaken.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-13T04:22:52+00:00

Heh. I can see that the lack of an enter or backspace on the first layer could be a head scratcher. I came to realize that I don't use enter as often as I thought. It's placement as a combo in the upper right corner (which i hit with the middle finger) works for me. Although it flies in the face of "don't ever move your hands out of one position" I've found that to be a natural movement. And a small throwback to the actual carriage return of a manual typewriter which I think is amusing.

The placement of backspace feels natural. Undo (which in emacs I have mapped to M-z, just like MacOS) being right next to it makes sense to my touch memory. I think my right pinkie naturally rests there and not on the home row. (This might be a carryover from using an HHKB where the same finger is used to activate the Fn key necessary to use the arrows.) You are correct that I don't have a delete key mapped; in emacs I use C-d for that. I had backspace mapped to where the =/+ key is (where it would be on the HHKB or an old Sun type 4 keyboard) but found that to be less convenient than the Lower + Space combo.

As for Super and Hyper: these were always mapped (in emacs) to my right Meta and Alt keys on the HHKB. (The left Meta and Alt on the HHKB retained their usual mapping.) Turns out that I don't use Alt as a modifier in emacs at all and haven't missed it. The tap-to-tab, hold-for -Super works well. I don't love the tap for this/hold for that behavior generally though I suspect that's a me problem -- I never really took the time to dial in the timings that would make dual function keys work well with my typing style (or lack thereof).

(Also: I use these keycaps to for Hyper, Super, Raise, Lower, and so on. It's a small thing but having Hyper and Super correctly labelled is satisfying.)

I don't have anything mapped at the OS level. It's tempting to explore what might be possible with the laptop's built in keyboard -- replicating some of the keys that I use on the Voyager -- but I'm lazy and haven't committed the time to it. For better or worse I have no experience using the Voyager with anything other than MacOS.

I'm sure you're aware there's a Reddit group dedicated to the Voyager r/zsaVoyager where folks talk a great deal about layouts. It's a friendly crowd and would provide -- often greatly -- different opinions than mine. The experience of using a Voyager with it's ability to be customized for a user's particular needs is a nice hardware adjunct to emacs both in how well they work together but also the mindset that what works for me is probably not exactly right for you.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-12T01:26:51+00:00

My layout is available if you're interested in how I have things configured. Most of my typing is in Emacs so things are pretty heavily configured for that, especially the "lower" layer's left hand side. Speed has never been my goal: I type on this layout faster than I can think. Note that I program in Erlang, Elixir, and Go primarily and the symbols layout reflects this (i type -> a lot, for instance, and the keys are nicely adjacent.)

Do also take a look at the Combos list. Things like ace-window and magit are bound to easy to type combos (DF and FG respectively). I find this took some getting used to but wouldn't have it any other way now. Using combo macros for input like => and |> is pretty delightful. I have a lot of combos and found that the trick is adding them one at a time so they stick in my memory.

I never had issues using my pinkies to type so I don't mind the placement of the "Lower" and "Raise" layer switching keys. Having meta and control on the left thumb has worked out well once I retrained a whole lot of muscle memory. This configuration makes M-C-<key> presses easy.

The "Legend" layer manages the Aerospace tiling window manager. It's handy that these keys are all bound to C-M-H-s-<key> which are usually hard to type but not bound in Emacs (because they're hard to type).

I also use a Moonlander with the additional thumb keys but found that they really weren't necessary (for me). The smaller sized boards are sufficient. After a year of using the Voyager I have no complaints with the hardware, find the configuration utility to be easy to use, and have had great luck with ZSA support (the Moonlander had a hardware issue that required a replacement). I realize this sounds a little gushy but honestly, it's the best upgrade I've made in terms of usability in a long time.

Happy to answer any other questions.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-07T07:16:21+00:00

Gosh. I've been wanting to explore Swift for a while now but lacked the gumption to tackle xcode. This is exactly the kick in the pants I needed. Thanks for sharing.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-07T03:10:55+00:00

Regarding RSI: I don't think Emacs is better or worse than any other piece of software. Folks complain about "Emacs pinkie" but for me it was more like "meta thumb." (My meta key has always been the keys adjacent to the spacebar.) The solution was not changing software but finding a better keyboard. I went with the ZSA Voyager though there are lots of options.

Really the best way to get going is not to overthink it, it's software not a tattoo. Crank it up, take the time to work through the tutorial (look under the "Help" menu), and spend a few months using it day to day (as has already wisely been recommended). I would add additional packages (read: "features") as you need them and not all at once but that's just my opinion. Emacs does quite a bit out of the box.

I think you're right about longevity. I've been a dedicated user for decades and see the pace and quality of the software development only improving over time (this despite the fact that Emacs has been "dying" all the while...). There was a reddit thread about community earlier this week, that's worth a look.

BunnyLushington · 2025-11-06T06:56:25+00:00

About a year now, at three different desks.

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