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

…and/or broken. There are some significant differences in how the various readers handle them. Here are a couple of representative examples: FatBits, John Siracusa’s old Ars Technica staff blog The URL for this feed was http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.rssx. This returns a 301 (Moved Permanently) redirecting to /staff/, which is not a feed. This is clearly breakage on Ars’s part. The Old Reader scraped the redirected-to page and pulled a feed…

4:10 PM | Computing, Web

…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' I now u…

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

…os;ve got http://web.sabi.net/log/ hosted on my ISP's Web server, instead of redirecting to radio.weblogs.com. Stage two is to replace all the internal links to radio.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…

4:36 PM | Radio