manic monday

A busy day today. Quick lists --- but on my phone, in Markor, a delightful Android text editor.

Liveblog

Morning session

Setting up for a liveblog: tweak the editor

[2025-06-16 Mon 09:47]

Let's try a live-blogging sort of thing. I want to be able to insert a timestamp real quick, but I'd like it to look nice in the output.

[2025-06-16 Mon 10:18]

Trying to make that look nice, I learned how to make an HTML 'definition list' in Markdown, where the list is headed by a word instead of a bullet or a number. See the source for this page or this StackOverflow post.

[2025-06-16 Mon 10:24]

What version of Markdown am I using here, anyway? That should be easy enough to find. ... It seems to be https://github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown:

>>> import markdown ; print(markdown.__version__)
3.8

The features page says that it's not a CommonMark implementation, "nor is it trying to be!" [sic].

[2025-06-16 Mon 10:51]

Grr, I've just wasted most of half an hour not remembering how to do Markdown's links. However, I've learned some cute tricks. Perhaps later I'll list them. But for now, I need to try and demonstrate some modicum of executive function.

I did learn that I need at least four spaces for a paragraph to be considered a continuation of a previous list.

I also learned about adding attributes to HTML tags, like this:

[2025-06-16 Mon 11:14]

Well, I wrote down those two, which was helpful. A little break and then to move on.

Indent should never use tabs (and other tweaks)

[2025-06-16 Mon 11:00]

Reading from https://stackoverflow.com/q/69934/1650379:

asdf

[2025-06-16 Mon 12:30]

Let's try that again; I was interrupted.

Reading from https://stackoverflow.com/q/69934/1650379:

[2025-06-16 Mon 12:47]

Ugh, there's so much cruft in the emacs help files, from decades of people guessing randomly at the best way to do things. Here's what I currently have:

(setq-default auto-fill-function 'do-auto-fill)
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)
;; nope, an issue on restart
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c !") 'org-time-stamp-inactive)

[2025-06-16 Mon 13:10]

Got it:

(require 'org) ;; The command we want isn't defined until the mode is loaded.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c !") 'org-time-stamp-inactive)

Midday session

[2025-06-16 Mon 13:28]

I'm taking a little break for lunch.

Evening session

[2025-06-16 Mon 17:02]

Job-hunting time.