njr 3.0

...fer for my Mac. Please see my previous few posts on the subject for some background. Since then, I’ve eliminated pain points and added features which have made the dictation experience smoother and less infuriating. Once again, while this does not represent a turnkey system, in keeping with the DIY nature of such projects, hopefully it may help others out who want to do something similar. The code remains up to date on GitHub and I plan on maintai...

10:34 PM | Computing, Dictation, macOS

…king “Fetch Feed From Website”, as recommended, causes the feed to correctly change to http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/feed/, though I repeatedly saw hangs when clicking “Retry Fetching and Parsing”. Feed Wrangler did the right thing automatically; in addition, its combination of old and new feeds is exemplary. NewsBlur has a pretty good solution, though it requires manual intervention, exhibited some flakiness and necessitated the folder be…

4:10 PM | Computing, Web

About a year ago I posted an Emacs launching script which would, if Emacs were already running, use emacsclient to open a file and AppleScript to bring Emacs to the front. It works well and I use it every day, but the AppleScript activating part is very slow. I usually end up just clicking on Emacs' dock icon instead of waiting for it to finish. After a bit of hacking, instead of: osascript -e 'tell application “Emacs” to activate'…

3:44 AM | Radio

…nd of the proposal trail. I don't think I've done enough work on background reading, still, but it seems you never can. As a side note, I've been working in MORE the whole time. It still is the best tool I've found for organizing my ideas. I can slice, dice, show and hide things. Hoisting and cloning are wonderful; I've got a template which I wrote from, and another one that I used for my ideas. Being able to cut and paste…

12:38 AM | Radio

…adio.weblogs.com, stage three is to write an upstream driver that replaces each file on radio.weblogs.com with a redirect page pointing to the corresponding resource on web.sabi.net, and stage four is turning off upstreaming to UserLand. At least this way I can be sure that my Weblog updates without fuss. Of the last 18 upstreaming attempts in my events log, 12 of them failed. That's unacceptable. I hope UserLand's able to fix this appar…

4:36 PM | Radio