About | Cyrialize

I updated my personal website to add some fun themes, like Windows XP and Windows 98!

cyrialize.dev

To quote the Emacs tutorial: "...don't sit and blame yourself - complain!"

#Emacs

Apple TV is making me love screensavers again.

Do you guys remember the endless pipes in Windows?

Bring back screensavers!

I’m a huge god-mode user for #Emacs. I love using a mostly modal like interface (I still press ctrl most of the time).

I think because of that I’m just addicted to Hydra now. I love to jump into an interface with singular key presses instead of chaining keybindings over and over.

Here's my commit! github.com/cyrialize/.e...

I have multiple org files for tasks.

`cyr-org-tasks` loads a desktop view of these and calls `hydra-org`, which has commands to switch windows, refile tasks, add new tasks, etc.

I defined a func to insert a task so that I won't exit out of the hydra!

I rediscovered Hydra this past weekend for #Emacs. I combined this with a saved desktop (using ‘desktop-mode’) to open up a window layout for my task files.

I was able to build a nice pseudo task management app! I haven’t pushed the changes yet, but I will soon.

It took trying to make a static site generator to make me realize I should just use an already made static site generator.

I wanted to make one because I found many SSGs to have too many features, but if my home made SSG is like Jekyll without extra features - I’ll just use Jekyll!

I’m a big fan of using LLMs to cut down my research loop. Each language/framework/library has its own terms that I may not know but an LLM does.

Once you have the specific term, it makes finding solutions/documentation much easier. Before LLMs I’d just keep on looking until I found the right term!

Neocities is the best!

tabs vs spaces

when you find a new theme in one place you gotta change it everywhere else.

This includes: your text editor, terminal emulator, computer, and house

LMAO, I didn’t even know that!

Merry Christmas to you as well!!

This is, in true Hollywood style, totally wrong - but man it sounds cool

This is true, but man imagine a movie with a hacker?

“Dependency injection, I’m in”

It’s tough to create an #Emacs package because every time I have a new idea, I find out it’s already been made (or it has existed in Emacs for 30 years)

I’m also a big fan, but because “dependency injection” is just the coolest sounding phrase

Someone had my first and last name as a domain and was trying to sell it for 3K!

The moment I saw that they were done holding it and I could buy it at a normal price I snagged it!

menu options for a Post include a "Secret Menu" which has a button that reads "Apply Gentle Kiss on Post's Forehead"

really thoughtful release. i'm impressed

I never took dired in #Emacs seriously until now. I apologize dired, I wasn’t familiar with your game!

My keybindings along with dired’s makes moving and deleting files so nice!

I feel like every time I dive into an #Emacs package I find out that it was already in Emacs 30 years ago.

Yassnippet? Meet tempo and skeleton.

I reinstalled #Emacs Helm after not using it for /years/, I completely forgot about the action sub-menu on items. Honestly, super helpful.

I know you can achieve something similar via Embark - I’ve been meaning to dig into that package more!

Correction: this is an interview posted on Sacha’s blog as the interviewer didn’t have a blog of their own.

Oops! Thanks I’ll update the post!

This interview of Helm's maintainer, Thierry Volpiatto, by @sachachua.com is one that I mention often to... well everyone! It's wild that one of the most well-known Emacs packages is by a mountain guide in the alps.

sachachua.com/blog/2018/09...

I learned I really, /really/ need to read instructions more carefully

I really like #Ruby meta programming capabilities because every single side project I have starts out simple, but then I think “what if I could make the code write the code” or “a DSL would go really nice here”

(I’ve never finished a side project)

Finally learning more #Emacs elisp is bad for me, now I’ll NEVER leave Emacs.

I’m lactose intolerant and I go through WAY too many lactaid pills

But CVS has the best deal of CVS brand fast acting pills buy one get another half off!

I have LCD. I went back and forth on OLED, but I went with LCD since I heard the colors were a little better?

At the end of the day it’s difficult to choose since you can’t really determine what’s better for you unless if you can hold them both.

So I just went with the cheapest!

I forgot that my standing desk had buttons