To make that happen, I added a line like this to my RSS template:
<?xml-stylesheet href="/assets/rss.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
and for my Atom template:
<?xml-stylesheet href="/assets/atom.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
and those refer to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title> RSS Feed | <xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/title"/> </title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/style.css"/> </head> <body> <h1 style="margin-bottom:0">Recent posts: <xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/title"/></h1> <p> This is an RSS feed. You can subscribe to <a href=" {/rss/channel/link}"><xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/link"/></a> in a feed reader such as <a href="https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed">Elfeed</a> for Emacs, <a href="https://www.inoreader.com/">Inoreader</a>, or <a href="https://newsblur.com/">NewsBlur</a>, or you can use tools like <a href="https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email">rss2email</a>. The feed includes the full blog posts. You can also view the posts on the website at <a href="{/rss/channel/atom:link[contains(@rel,'alternate')]/@href}"><xsl:value-of select="/rss/channel/atom:link[contains(@rel,'alternate')]/@href" /></a> . </p> <xsl:for-each select="/rss/channel/item"> <div style="margin-bottom:20px"> <div> <xsl:value-of select="pubDate" /> </div> <div> <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="link/@href"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="title"/> </a></div></div> </xsl:for-each> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="3.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"> <head> <title> Atom Feed | <xsl:value-of select="/atom:feed/atom:title"/> </title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/style.css"/> </head> <body> <h1 style="margin-bottom:0">Recent posts: <xsl:value-of select="/atom:feed/atom:title"/></h1> <p> This is an Atom feed. You can subscribe to <a href=" {/atom:feed/atom:link/@href}"><xsl:value-of select="/atom:feed/atom:link/@href"/></a> in a feed reader such as <a href="https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed">Elfeed</a> for Emacs, <a href="https://www.inoreader.com/">Inoreader</a>, or <a href="https://newsblur.com/">NewsBlur</a>, or you can use tools like <a href="https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email">rss2email</a>. The feed includes the full blog posts. You can also view the posts on the website at <a href="{/atom:feed/atom:link[contains(@rel,'alternate')]/@href}"><xsl:value-of select="/atom:feed/atom:link[contains(@rel,'alternate')]/@href" /></a> . </p> <xsl:for-each select="/atom:feed/atom:entry"> <div style="margin-bottom:20px"> <div> <xsl:value-of select="substring(atom:updated, 0, 11)" /></div> <div><a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="atom:link/@href"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="atom:title"/> </a></div></div> </xsl:for-each> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
2023-12-25-07
Flow of ideas
What can I learn from thinking about the flow rate?
input > output, and that's okay
Parts:
Thoughts:
The heap:
Next: toot more experiment with braindumping, video
I come up with way more ideas than I can work on, and that's okay. That's good. It means I can always skim the top for interesting things, and it's fine if things overflow as long as the important stuff stays in the funnel. I'm experimenting with more ways to keep things flowing.
I usually come up with lots of ideas and then revisit my priorities to see if I can figure out 1-3 things I'd like to work on for my next focused time sessions. These priorities are actually pretty stable for the most part, but sometimes an idea jumps the queue and that's okay.
There's a loose net of projects/tasks that I'm currently working on and things I'm currently interested in, so I want to connect ideas and resources to those if I can. If they aren't connected, or if they're low-priority and I probably won't get to them any time soon, it can make a lot of sense to add quick notes and pass it along.
For things I want to think about some more, my audio braindumping workflow seems to be working out as a way to capture lots of text even when I'm away from my computer. I also have a bit more time to sketch while waiting for the kiddo to get ready for bed. I can use the sketchnotes as outlines to talk through while I braindump, and I can take my braindumps and distill them into sketches. Then I can take those and put them into blog posts. Instead of getting tempted to add more and more to a blog post (just one more idea, really!), I can try wrapping up earlier since I can always add a follow-up post. For some things, making a video might be worthwhile, so smoothing out my workflow for creating a video could be useful. I don't want to spend a lot of time filing but I still want to be able to find related notes, so automatically refiling based on tags (or possibly suggesting refile targets based on vector similarity?) might help me shift things out of my inbox.
I'm generally not bothered by the waste of coming up with ideas that I don't get around to, since it's more like daydreaming or fun. I sometimes get a little frustrated when I want to find an interesting resource I remember coming across some time ago and I can't find it with the words I'm looking for. Building more of a habit of capturing interesting resources in my Org files and using my own words in the notes will help while I wait for personal search engines to get better. I'm a little slow when it comes to e-mails because I tend to wait until I'm at my computer–and then when I'm at my computer, I prefer to tinker or write. I occasionally redo things because I didn't have notes from the previous solution or I couldn't find my notes. That's fine too. I can get better at taking notes and finding them.
So I think some next steps for me are:
I'm thinking of ways to reinvest the ~USD 250 award into Emacs and the community to see what a little money earmarked for that could do. People have already donated enough to EmacsConf to cover hosting costs, so that's all sorted out. People have also already sent me more than enough to cover my hosting costs using my ancient pay-what-you-want resources. I wonder how I could use the money to help me make more blog posts and videos.
Speech recognition: Paying for cloud usage will let me do tiny experiments without upgrading my X230T1 for now. I could start with speech recognition as a way of fleshing out ideas and getting them into text faster. Deepgram charges USD 0.0048/min for batch-processing with Whisper Large and USD 0.0059/min for streaming with their Nova-2 model, so that's… umm… ~860+ hours I could process. Over the past couple of weeks of experimenting with this idea, I've recorded about 1-2 hours of audio braindumps a day, so that's still well over a year of being able to play around with this. (And actually I still have USD ~187 of free trial credits with them, so…)
AI: I might also be able to use AI for outlining/summarizing/cleaning up my audio braindumps. I just have to figure out the right prompts for ChatGPT. Here's one I've been experimenting with so that I can get things into roughly an Org Mode format while still letting me easily look things up in the transcript:
Reorganize this rough transcript into an outline of ideas. Format it like this: - item 1 - details - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - details - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - details - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - verbatim quote from transcript - more details - item 2 ...
Drawing: The kiddo uses the iPad a lot for reading, but maybe I can squeeze in some time to tinker around with different apps for drawing and animation.
Video editing: Maybe I can learn more about video editing or figure out what gear makes sense to add to my setup.
If you have other suggestions for low-cost experiments that might pay off in terms of making more useful blog posts or videos, I'd love to hear them!
The X230T is a lovely computer. This particular one is a donation from Matthew Darling, and it has an i5-3320M. I occasionally get tempted to upgrade to maybe a desktop with a GPU so that I can do more experiments with Whisper, ffmpeg, or local AI models, but since I still only have a tiny sliver of computing time each day before the kiddo wakes up, it doesn't make sense to buy a powerful computer that will sit idle most of the time. He also gave me a Surface Book with an i7-6600U, and I can probably run stuff on it. It has a 1GB NVIDIA GPU, even, so maybe I should figure out how I can ssh into it since it runs Windows at the moment. There's a W530 with an i7-3820QM around here with a 2GB NVIDIA GPU that also tends to be idle. That one dualboots between Windows and Linux, but it tends to be in Windows because the kiddo uses it to play Minecraft Bedrock. I've just set up SSH access to WSL on both of them, so that should be promising. I'm surrounded by excess compute resources that I could use for making videos either through interactive applications like Kdenlive or through text-based workflows using my Emacs Lisp functions. Besides, it makes sense to focus on very short videos for now (or even blog posts with more screenshots and animated GIFs). Maybe I just need to spend some time this winter break to figure out some workflows. Hmm…
sketchLink "2013-10-06"
with
sketchLink "2013-10-06 Daily drawing - thinking on paper #drawing"
,
replacing references to the same date with the next sketch in the
list. I figured that would be enough to get the basic use case sorted
out (usually a list of sketches in my monthly/weekly reviews), taking advantage of the my-list-sketches
function I defined in my Emacs config.
(defun my-replace-duplicate-sketch-list-references () (interactive) (goto-char (point-min)) (let (seen) (while (re-search-forward "sketchLink \\\"\\([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\\)\\\"" nil t) (if (assoc (match-string 1) seen) (setcdr (assoc (match-string 1) seen) (1+ (assoc-default (match-string 1) seen))) (setq seen (cons (cons (match-string 1) 1) seen)))) (mapc (lambda (entry) (goto-char (point-min)) (mapc (lambda (sketch) (if (re-search-forward (format "sketchLink \\\"\\(%s\\)\\\"" (regexp-quote (car entry))) nil t) (replace-match (save-match-data (file-name-sans-extension sketch)) nil t nil 1) (message "Skipping %s possible ref to %s" (buffer-file-name) sketch))) (my-list-sketches (concat "^" (regexp-quote (car entry))) nil '("~/sync/sketches")))) seen)))
Sometimes I needed to delete the whole list and start again:
(defun my-insert-sketch-list-between (start-date end-date) (insert (mapconcat (lambda (f) (format "<li>%s sketchLink \"%s\" %s</li>\n" (concat "{" "%") ; avoid confusing 11ty when I export this (file-name-sans-extension f) (concat "%" "}"))) (sort (seq-filter (lambda (f) (and (string< f end-date) (not (string< f start-date)))) (my-list-sketches nil nil '("~/sync/sketches"))) 'string<) "")))
I used find-grep-dired
to search for sketchLink
\"[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]\"
and then I just used a
keyboard macro to process each file.
Anyway, really old monthly reviews like this one for October 2013 should mostly make sense again. I could probably pull out the correct references from the Wordpress database backup, but what I've got is probably okay. I would probably have gotten much grumpier trying to do this without Emacs Lisp. Yay Emacs!
]]>(defun my-org-11ty-copy-subtree (&optional do-cut) "Copy the subtree for the current post to the 11ty export directory. With prefix arg, move the subtree." (interactive (list current-prefix-arg)) (let* ((file-properties (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'keyword (lambda (el) (when (string-match "ELEVENTY" (org-element-property :key el)) (list (org-element-property :key el) (org-element-property :value el) (buffer-substring-no-properties (org-element-property :begin el) (org-element-property :end el))))))) (entry-properties (org-entry-properties)) (filename (expand-file-name "index.org" (expand-file-name (assoc-default "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_FILE_NAME" entry-properties) (car (assoc-default "ELEVENTY_BASE_DIR" file-properties)))))) (unless (file-directory-p (file-name-directory filename)) (make-directory (file-name-directory filename) t)) ;; find the heading that sets the current EXPORT_ELEVENTY_FILE_NAME (goto-char (org-find-property "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_FILE_NAME" (org-entry-get-with-inheritance "EXPORT_ELEVENTY_FILE_NAME"))) (org-copy-subtree 1 (if do-cut 'cut)) (with-temp-file filename (org-mode) (insert (or (mapconcat (lambda (file-prop) (elt file-prop 2)) file-properties "") "") "\n") (org-yank)) (find-file filename) (goto-char (point-min))))
Then this adds a link to it:
(defun my-org-export-filter-body-add-index-link (string backend info) (if (and (member backend '(11ty html)) (plist-get info :file-name) (plist-get info :base-dir) (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "index.org" (expand-file-name (plist-get info :file-name) (plist-get info :base-dir))))) (concat string (format "<div><a href=\"%sindex.org\">View org source for this post</a></div>" (plist-get info :permalink))) string)) (with-eval-after-load 'ox (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-body-functions #'my-org-export-filter-body-add-index-link))
Then I want to wrap the whole thing up in an export function:
(defun my-org-11ty-export (&optional async subtreep visible-only body-only ext-plist) (let* ((info (org-11ty--get-info subtreep visible-only)) (file (org-11ty--base-file-name subtreep visible-only))) (unless (string= (plist-get info :input-file) (expand-file-name "index.org" (expand-file-name (plist-get info :file-name) (plist-get info :base-dir)))) (save-window-excursion (my-org-11ty-copy-subtree))) (org-11ty-export-to-11tydata-and-html async subtreep visible-only body-only ext-plist) (my-org-11ty-find-file)))
Now to figure out how to override the export menu. Totally messy hack!
(with-eval-after-load 'ox-11ty (map-put (caddr (org-export-backend-menu (org-export-get-backend '11ty))) ?o (list "To Org, 11tydata.json, HTML" 'my-org-11ty-export)))
If I can get the hang of writing my thoughts, then it turns some of those bedtime hours into writing hours. Writing by hand feels slow and linear, but it's better than nothing, and thinking takes most of the time anyway. While speech recognition feels like it might be faster in short bursts, I don't have a lot of "talking to myself" time (aside from sleepy brain dumps), and my workflow for processing audio is still slow and disjointed. I can't type on my phone because then A- will want to be on a screen too. I'm glad e-ink devices are different enough not to trigger her sense of unfairness, although sometimes she does ask if she can do mazes or connect-the-dots. Then I switch to knitting until it's really really time to go to bed.
I'm slowly figuring out my workflows for experimenting with and writing about code. Naturally, that's a little more challenging to write about by hand, but I could draft the context. I can think through life stuff too, and maybe look into saving more notes in my Org files.
I've experimented with handwritten blog posts before. Now that I have a little more time to tweak my workflow and think thoughts, maybe I'll get the hang of them!
It looks like the Supernote's real-time recognition is pretty accurate for my handwriting, getting the text out of multiple pages is pretty straightforward.
Here's the raw TXT output from the Supernote.
Here's what it took to edit it into the first part of this post - just adding line-breaks and fixing up some words:
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If I add more lines between paragraphs when writing, I might be able to skip adding them in the text export.
For comparison, here's the text output from Google Cloud Vision.
Tweaking my handwriting workflow Both Google Cloud Vision and Super Note's new handwriting recognition handle my print fine. Neither handle columns the way I'd like, but to be fair, I'm not really sure how I want columns and wrapping handled anyway I can always experiment with the standard use-case use-case: One column of text, to export as Text (with perhaps the occasional sketch, which can crop and include). If I can get the hang of writing my thoughts, then it turns some of those bedtime hours into writi writing hours. Writing by hand feels slow and linear, but it's better than nothing, and thinking takes most of the time anyway while speech recognition feels like it might be faster in short bursts, don't have a lot of "talking to myself" time (aside from sleepy braindumps), and my workflow for processing audio is still slow and disjointed. I can't type on my phone because then A- will want to be on I'm glad e-ink devices are different enough not to trigger her sense of unfairness, although sometimes she does ask if she can do mazes or connect-the-dots a screen too Then I switch to Knitting until it's really really time to go to bed. I'm slowly figuring out my workflows for experimenting with and writing about code. Naturally, that's a little more challenging to write about by hand, but I could draft the context. I can think through life stuff too, and maybe look into saving more notes in my org files I've experimented with handwritten blog posts before Now that I have a little more time to tweak my workflow and think thoughts, maybe I'll get the hang of them!
I'm leaning towards SuperNote's recognition results for long text, although I don't get access to the confidence data so I'll probably just have to delete the misrecognized text if I include sketches.
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First, let's add the buttons with Javascript. I want the buttons to be
visible in the summary line if I'm using the <details />
element. If
not, they can go in the div with the org-src-container
class.
/* Start of copy code */ // based on https://www.roboleary.net/2022/01/13/copy-code-to-clipboard-blog.html const copyLabel = 'Copy code'; async function copyCode(block, button) { let code = block.querySelector('pre.src'); let text = code.innerText; await navigator.clipboard.writeText(text); button.innerText = 'Copied'; setTimeout(() => { button.innerText = copyLabel; }, 500); } function addCopyCodeButtons() { if (!navigator.clipboard) return; let blocks = document.querySelectorAll('.org-src-container'); blocks.forEach((block) => { let button = document.createElement('button'); button.innerText = copyLabel; button.classList.add('copy-code'); let details = block.closest('details'); let summary = details && details.querySelector('summary'); if (summary) { summary.appendChild(button); } else { block.appendChild(button); } button.addEventListener('click', async() => { await copyCode(block, button); }); block.setAttribute('tabindex', 0); }); } document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) { addCopyCodeButtons(); }); /* End of copy code */
Then we style it:
/* Start of copy code */ pre.src { margin: 0 } .org-src-container { position: relative; margin: 0 0; padding: 1.75rem 0 1.75rem 1rem; } summary { position: relative; } summary .org-src-container { padding: 0 } summary .org-src-container pre.src { margin: 0 } .org-src-container button.copy-code, summary button.copy-code { position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; } /* End of copy code */
Someday I'll figure out how to make it easier to tangle things to the post's directory and make the file available for download. In the meantime, this might be a good start.
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