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David Wilson

@daviwil

Lisp and Scheme hacker, writer, game developer, and Emacs inhabitor living in Athens, Greece. I make videos about GNU Emacs, GNU Guix, and related topics on the System Crafters channel on YouTube. https://systemcrafters.net https://daviwil.com

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Fix Emacs sound support on macOS If trying to play a sound from Emacs, e.g. via play-sound-file or org-notify only gives you a puny beep, and sometimes the error message “This Emacs binary lacks sound support”, add the following to y...

Ironically, I got distracted trying to use #Emacs `org-timer-set-timer` as my #pomodoro timer, because the notification sound was not working on my MacBook. At least I have this #TiL to show for it: charlbotha.com/til/fix-emac...

08.01.2025 08:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Emacs Has a Built-in Pomodoro Timer? - System Crafters

Much gratitude to @daviwil.bsky.social (#emacs users should follow!) of System Crafters for his post systemcrafters.net/emacs-shorts... which put me onto this!

(I used to use org-pomodoro, but I need my org-clocks for full work tracking.)

08.01.2025 08:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Progress Update: Emacs Discourse Integration Features Implemented ✅ Category listing and navigation ✅ Topic viewing with proper formatting ✅ Reply functionality with markdown support ✅ Proper CSRF token handling for API requests ✅ Clean buf...

So I'm making a thing.

forum.systemcrafters.net/t/progress-u...

#emacs #systemcrafters #discourse

04.01.2025 04:02 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Might just be boring enough to work!

04.01.2025 09:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks to everyone who came to the live stream, it was great!

And again, if you're on the fence about whether or not to donate, PLEASE DONATE! We are a small nonprofit and every dollar goes directly to advancing engineering work to level up the internet. Thank youuuuuu 💜 spritely.institute/donate/

06.12.2024 18:16 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Concurrency, Actors and immutability

I wrote a post on Reddit about how @spritelyinst.bsky.social's Goblins is in many ways "Lambda: the Ultimate Actor Model" for those who might be interested in some computer science nerdery www.reddit.com/r/scheme/com...

07.12.2024 15:41 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Spritely Institute: Building the Future of Decentralized Apps - System Crafters Live!
Spritely Institute: Building the Future of Decentralized Apps - System Crafters Live! YouTube video by System Crafters

In just a couple of hours I'll be giving a live stream interview (and demo!) about @spritelyinst.bsky.social on System Crafters with @daviwil.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsW7...

Tune in! You're not gonna wanna miss it!

06.12.2024 13:21 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

The link above contains more information about what we will cover including the workshop dates and times.

Please feel free to reply with questions!

27.11.2024 16:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Git Good: From Basics to Beyond in 4 Hours - System Crafters

Have you used Git but still feel you don't really understand it?

Do you wish you understood how Git really works under the hood?

Want to know all the cool techniques that the expert hackers use?

Check out my new "Git Good" workshop here:

systemcrafters.net/courses/git-...

#git #programming

27.11.2024 16:17 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

I imagine this said in the voice of Badger from Breaking Bad

26.11.2024 21:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg, I had this exact one! Can't believe this is a render

26.11.2024 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Married to an AI," I didn't believe they were really a Satanist until I read that

17.11.2024 10:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's not incredibly comfortable but it's good enough. Fun to hack on an Emacs configuration on the go!

16.11.2024 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Urban Dictionary: Skeet Skeet jizz, ejaculate, spooge, cum, to blow one's load, get rid of the baby batter,or otherwise squirt seminal fluid from the penis.

I think it will quickly be abandoned once people realize what it means:

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...

16.11.2024 14:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Emacs inside of Termux!

16.11.2024 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

At the mall, hacking Emacs Lisp on my phone. Have I gone too far?

16.11.2024 09:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Hey Nick!

15.11.2024 11:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey Glenn!

15.11.2024 11:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess more people are using this now? Are you?

15.11.2024 09:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Staking my claim on this site before the land rush kicks off!

06.02.2024 15:58 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0