Configuring systemd to redeploy my service when I commit a new source .jar file, I have a path file that goes along with the service and uses a PathChanged directive. The [Install] section should be in the path file, not the service file, but I notice this makes “systemctl enable MYAPP” impossible. It turns out that enable MYAPP assumes you mean MYAPP.service, so you actually just do systemctl enable MYAPP.path and you’re set.

You can use pdftk to reduce a 150-page PDF to a just the pages you care about. pdftk ORIG_FILE.pdf cat 1-5 output NEW_FILE.pdf

I have added the following shortcut, possible since exwm frees up my s- key: (exwm-input-set-key (kbd "s-<backspace>") 'kill-this-buffer) And, for when I am already in an emacs buffer, this added to my personal key map: (define-key map (kbd "s-<backspace>") 'kill-this-buffer) In any case, making a single-chord shortcut for kill-this-buffer has highlighted how often I use the command, and made work that much faster. Highly recommended!

Watching a great performance on the Tabernacle Choir Organ, I couldn’t help but feel some emacs inspiration. It’s even better with sound. https://youtu.be/i5Ei6CaZZnY?t=2495

I found that my #Hugo was now omitting my html (such as embedded Youtube) with “html omitted” warnings showing up in my source. Fix with a few lines to your config.toml: [markup.goldmark.renderer] # allow html to be included unsafe = true Resources Answer was found on Hugo’s discourse here: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/raw-html-getting-omitted-in-0-60-0/22032

M-x helm shows duplicates after upgrading to Emacs 27. Turns out the changed behavior is easily fixed by configuring history-delete-duplicates. Answer courtesy official issue .

Version at time of writing: Firefox 79.0 First, locate your profile by going to the firefox menu bar: Help -> “Troubleshooting Information” and find on the page “Profile Directory”. Navigate there, where you’ll be making/adding two files that allow you to customize behavior and appearance of Firefox. For reference, mine was here: ~/.mozilla/firefox/aabkj82t.default/ . Yours will have some other blob of random characters before “.default”. userChrome.css This file should definitely exist already.

I made the big upgrade to Emacs 27.1, giving myself a full day to work out the kinks. First off, it’s great; I like the early-init, I’m thrilled by the new in-box orgmode, and as things settle I love the new fonts and customizations. There is some strangeness on this journey, though (made worse by the fact that I am an exwm user, so emacs failures are system failures). Everything died.

Emacs is so delightfully extensible it can easily be a Will-o’-the-wisp in a situations like this morning: Editing my “journal.2020.org” file as I do every day, I decided to finally remove the inconvenience of moving my fingers to the arrow keys to promote/demote structures. First I thought, “I’m just going to add this to my org-mode hydra so that I invoke it with C-c o and then hit [ or ] to change the heading level.

Most of emacs is miraculously self-documenting but I found a bare-spot: how to customize emacs notifications. In particular, being an exwm user the in-emacs mini-buffer with Dunst, I hope. There’s a dirth of documentation on the appointment variables/functions, although they are emacs-general. In particular, the key to making this whole thing work, appt-disp-window-function, has no help entry in my emacs, but this does it on my Linux: Solution Code (setq appt-display-format 'window) (setq appt-disp-window-function (function tsa/appt-disp-window)) (defun tsa/appt-disp-window (min-to-app new-time msg) (save-window-excursion (shell-command (concat "notify-send \"Orgmode: " msg "\"") nil nil))) Resources Relevant source: https://www.