By pure coincidence, it's six years ago tomorrow that I finally, after years of running Emacs with a bright white background, moved to using a dark theme. It took a little bit of getting used to but eventually I got very comfortable with it, and since then have run everything I can in a dark mode too. On occasion,...

Every so often I get the urge to change how Emacs looks. Ever since I finally fell to the dark side, my Emacs has stayed looking pretty much the same. I like how it looks, but I do keep having this urge to find a darker theme, and to also make things just a wee bit more minimal. At one point I was very much about,...

Damn. Oh damn. My Reddit account is now old enough to buy beer1. O_o While I probably have accounts somewhere that are older than this, that's still a pretty long time to have held an account somewhere and still be actively using it. I remember I'd been reading Reddit for a couple of years before I finally made an...

Another quick update to blogmore.el, again to fix an issue I've run into with the new frontmatter-handling code. This time it's to address an actual crash that could happen if a property was available but empty. For example, if a post had frontmatter that looked like this: title: "blogmore.el v5.2.0" date:...

A quick little update to blogmore.el to fix a couple of issues introduced by the new YAML-parsing approach to reading frontmatter; both pretty much stemming from how falsy values are handled. Simply put, both boolean false values, and also empty values (something that could commonly happen with tags and series)...

I had quite the adventure with PyPI this morning, and I don't think it's over yet. It started out with the release of BlogMore v2.43.0. I did my usual thing of doing a test release to the test version of PyPI, and then did a production release. As normally happens, I then went on to tag the release on GitHub,...

After recently adding Mermaid and maths support to BlogMore, I got to thinking that it now has connections with a handful of third-party resources. While almost all of them are optional (only FontAwesome comes close to being a hard requirement), it does mean that there are resources the user doesn't directly supply...

When I released blogmore.el v4.7.0 yesterday I finished off by saying that it was my intention, at some point, to rework the frontmatter-handling code so that it did proper YAML parsing. As often happens with these sorts of things, "some point" ended up being that evening. I've rewritten everything to do with...

A quick update to blogmore.el. Having recently added series support to BlogMore it made sense that I then add a quick way of adding a post to a series in the package. You can, of course, set a new one too, but the idea here (as with categories and tags) is that you can quickly find back an existing series and add...

I've released BlogMore v2.42.0. This version is all about changes to the dump command. When I first added it it simply dumped all of the data available about posts within a blog, meaning it was possible to do all sorts of things with the data outside of BlogMore itself. Having done this, and used the result to good...

When I moved to Newcastle, as a student, back in 1986, I was introduced to many new things. So many new things. Different folk. Different accents. Different backgrounds. People from the south! But, as well as all the eye-opening things that student life had to throw at a working-class Yorkshire lad, there were also...

It's probably bad news if I have a Saturday afternoon and evening spare, a fully-charged laptop and a comfy sofa. It seems that when that happens, something like BlogMore v2.41.0 happens. This is a release where I've added two features that could be generally useful, but which I'm unlikely to use in my own blogs....