After releasing blogmore.el v2.6 this morning, I noticed something about the post: the text that was marked up with <kbd> wasn't really standing out as keys. In blog posts, as in documentation, if I mention the name of a key, I like to mark it up with <kbd>. Ideally, with such markup, the styling of the page it's...

There's no question that the experiment that is BlogMore has resulted in me blogging more. Although my previous setup wasn't exactly all friction, there's something about "owning" most of the tools and really knowing how they work, and being able to quickly modify them so they work "just so", that makes me more...

Like most people, I imagine, I first ran into transient when first using magit. I took to it pretty quickly and it's always made sense to me as a user interface. But... I've never used it for any code I've ever written. I think, incorrectly, I'd half assumed it was going to be some faff to set up, and of course for...

Back when I first really got into writing Emacs Lisp code, one of the first things I got very used to and really fell in love with was being able to eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) the code I was writing, either to test it right there in the buffer, or to cause it to be bound so I could use it elsewhere. It was so...

A wee bit over 5 years back I wrote a tiny package to quickly insert PHONY target markers into a Makefile. While it's far from my most-used package, it's one that gets a call on occasion, so it's one I still carry around in my Emacs configuration. Given I'm currently engaging in a slow background process of cleaning...

Following on from yesterday's release, I've bumped blogmore.el to v2.5. The main change to the package is the thing I mentioned yesterday about the toggle of the draft status. The draft toggle yesterday was pretty simple, with it working like: If there is no draft frontmatter, draft: true is added If there is any...

I've just published v2.8.0 of BlogMore to PyPI. This is a small update which addresses a bug that Andy reported. The fix was simple enough, and is another little interesting thing to keep in mind given that BlogMore is an ongoing Copilot experiment. When I first kicked off BlogMore I let it decide which library to...

I've just released a little update to blogmore.el, adding blogmore-toggle-draft as a command. This came about in connection with the feature request that resulted in BlogMore v2.7.0 being released. While I don't personally use draft for my posts, I can see the utility of it and if someone were to happen to use...

Given I've been on a little bit of an Emacs Lisp side quest, it's been a couple or so days since I made a release of BlogMore. Today's release comes after a feature request about draft posts. While support for marking posts as drafts, and including or excluding them from a build, is something that's been in BlogMore...

Some time in the late 1990s, after I'd been using GNU Emacs for a few years1, I grabbed a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. While I'd obviously created and added to and tinkered with my ~/.emacs some, I'd never written any non-trivial code. I feel it was around 1998 or 1999 that I really started to get into...

This bit of Emacs Lisp absolutely comes from a more innocent time on the Internet. Looking at it, it seems I wrote the first version, at least as a proper package, back in 2001. It's very possible that I carried a non-package version of it around as part of dp-lib.el1 for some time before, so it might date from the...