I’ve often referred to my cat, Lucky Bubba, as “natures most perfect cat”, or “a prince amount cats”.

Decided to test out setting up and enabling this wiki setup on my Fedora Linux laptop that I got from the good folks at Frame.Work. Have had it for a while now. I got the smaller laptop, the Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series).

It it light and handy. Has a decent keyboard for a laptop. Running the latest version of Fedora, as of the time of this post:

cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 42 (Adams)

It’s a solid distro and is kept very up-to-date, which I like.

This has been an interesting day. After getting the updates to the blog repo all updated and working well, I wanted to also update my Emacs configuration to make it a smoother experience to add new posts.

So two main changes were required. The majority is in this one file, located in my `$HOME/.emacs.d/lisp` directory:

init-hugo.el

;;; init-hugo.el --- Blogging helpers for Hugo/ox-hugo  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Author: Gordon Owen Tillman <got@example.com>
;; Namespace: got/
;; Summary: Create date-prefixed Hugo posts with optional tag prompting

;;; Commentary:
;; This file provides a helper function to create a new blog post in
;; `got/blog-directory`, using the ox-hugo front-matter conventions.
;; All functions are namespaced with `got/` (Gordon Owen Tillman).

;;; Code:

(require 'subr-x)  ;; for string-join

(defcustom got/blog-directory
  "~/Projects/g/gordyt.github.io/source/blog/"
  "Directory where blog posts are stored."
  :type 'string
  :group 'got)

(defun got--collect-existing-tags ()
  "Collect all unique tags from existing blog posts."
  (let ((tags '()))
    (dolist (file (directory-files got/blog-directory t "\.org$"))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (insert-file-contents file)
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (when (re-search-forward "^#\\+HUGO_TAGS:\\s-*\\(.*\\)" nil t)
          (let ((line-tags (split-string (match-string 1) "[ ,]+" t)))
            (setq tags (append tags line-tags))))))
    (delete-dups tags)))

(defun got/new-blog-post (title)
  "Create a new org-mode blog post in `got/blog-directory` with TITLE.
Prompts for existing tags (with the option to add new ones)."
  (interactive "sPost Title: ")
  (let* ((date (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))
         (slug (replace-regexp-in-string
                "[^a-z0-9-]" ""
                (replace-regexp-in-string
                 " " "-" (downcase title))))
         (filename (expand-file-name (format "%s-%s.org" date slug) got/blog-directory))
         (existing-tags (got--collect-existing-tags))
         (chosen-tags
          (completing-read-multiple
           "Select tags (or type new ones, space-separated): "
           existing-tags nil nil)))
    (find-file filename)
    (insert (format "#+TITLE: %s\n" title))
    (insert (format "#+DATE: %s\n" date))
    (insert "#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ../hugo-site/\n")
    (insert "#+HUGO_SECTION: posts\n")
    (insert (format "#+HUGO_TAGS: %s\n"
                    (string-join chosen-tags " ")))
    (insert "#+HUGO_CATEGORIES: \n\n")
    (message "New post created: %s" filename)))

(provide 'init-hugo)

;;; init-hugo.el ends here

Then just a minor update in `init.el` to load it:

My buddy at work just got a new Acer C720-3404 Chromebook. I have the ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook. We decided to do a real-world performance comparison with a sample task that we have to perform all of the time.

I’ve been trying to sort-out the details of what is required to be able to maintain a GitHub pages site via Octopress / org-octopress from multiple computers. The slight complicating factor is that the location of the git repository for the site is different on the two computers that I am using.

I recently signed up for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with vpsdime. The idea is to set-up a complete development environment for all of my work and personal projects that I can access from a low-end device like a Chromebook or an iPad (with a suitable SSH app installed).

Testing Org-Octopress

This is a test post using org-octopress…

Decided to test out setting up and enabling this wiki setup on my Fedora Linux laptop that I got from the good folks at Frame.Work. Have had it for a while now. I got the smaller laptop, the Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series).

It it light and handy. Has a decent keyboard for a laptop. Running the latest version of Fedora, as of the time of this post:

cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 42 (Adams)

It’s a solid distro and is kept very up-to-date, which I like.

I made a post yesterday that covered the steps required to install Ubuntu on an ASUS C200 Chromebook. One thing I noticed was that, while you are running Ubuntu, it ties up your terminal window and makes it unavailable for doing other tasks.

Introduction

I have been interested in seeing if would be possible to set-up a Chromebook so that some serious development work with it. It’s a given that you won’t be running any virtual machines on a Chromebook. But at this point I think you can do pretty much any thing else you might need to do.

This has been an interesting day. After getting the updates to the blog repo all updated and working well, I wanted to also update my Emacs configuration to make it a smoother experience to add new posts.

So two main changes were required. The majority is in this one file, located in my `$HOME/.emacs.d/lisp` directory:

init-hugo.el

;;; init-hugo.el --- Blogging helpers for Hugo/ox-hugo  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Author: Gordon Owen Tillman <got@example.com>
;; Namespace: got/
;; Summary: Create date-prefixed Hugo posts with optional tag prompting

;;; Commentary:
;; This file provides a helper function to create a new blog post in
;; `got/blog-directory`, using the ox-hugo front-matter conventions.
;; All functions are namespaced with `got/` (Gordon Owen Tillman).

;;; Code:

(require 'subr-x)  ;; for string-join

(defcustom got/blog-directory
  "~/Projects/g/gordyt.github.io/source/blog/"
  "Directory where blog posts are stored."
  :type 'string
  :group 'got)

(defun got--collect-existing-tags ()
  "Collect all unique tags from existing blog posts."
  (let ((tags '()))
    (dolist (file (directory-files got/blog-directory t "\.org$"))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (insert-file-contents file)
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (when (re-search-forward "^#\\+HUGO_TAGS:\\s-*\\(.*\\)" nil t)
          (let ((line-tags (split-string (match-string 1) "[ ,]+" t)))
            (setq tags (append tags line-tags))))))
    (delete-dups tags)))

(defun got/new-blog-post (title)
  "Create a new org-mode blog post in `got/blog-directory` with TITLE.
Prompts for existing tags (with the option to add new ones)."
  (interactive "sPost Title: ")
  (let* ((date (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))
         (slug (replace-regexp-in-string
                "[^a-z0-9-]" ""
                (replace-regexp-in-string
                 " " "-" (downcase title))))
         (filename (expand-file-name (format "%s-%s.org" date slug) got/blog-directory))
         (existing-tags (got--collect-existing-tags))
         (chosen-tags
          (completing-read-multiple
           "Select tags (or type new ones, space-separated): "
           existing-tags nil nil)))
    (find-file filename)
    (insert (format "#+TITLE: %s\n" title))
    (insert (format "#+DATE: %s\n" date))
    (insert "#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ../hugo-site/\n")
    (insert "#+HUGO_SECTION: posts\n")
    (insert (format "#+HUGO_TAGS: %s\n"
                    (string-join chosen-tags " ")))
    (insert "#+HUGO_CATEGORIES: \n\n")
    (message "New post created: %s" filename)))

(provide 'init-hugo)

;;; init-hugo.el ends here

Then just a minor update in `init.el` to load it:

This has been an interesting day. After getting the updates to the blog repo all updated and working well, I wanted to also update my Emacs configuration to make it a smoother experience to add new posts.

So two main changes were required. The majority is in this one file, located in my `$HOME/.emacs.d/lisp` directory:

init-hugo.el

;;; init-hugo.el --- Blogging helpers for Hugo/ox-hugo  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
;; Author: Gordon Owen Tillman <got@example.com>
;; Namespace: got/
;; Summary: Create date-prefixed Hugo posts with optional tag prompting

;;; Commentary:
;; This file provides a helper function to create a new blog post in
;; `got/blog-directory`, using the ox-hugo front-matter conventions.
;; All functions are namespaced with `got/` (Gordon Owen Tillman).

;;; Code:

(require 'subr-x)  ;; for string-join

(defcustom got/blog-directory
  "~/Projects/g/gordyt.github.io/source/blog/"
  "Directory where blog posts are stored."
  :type 'string
  :group 'got)

(defun got--collect-existing-tags ()
  "Collect all unique tags from existing blog posts."
  (let ((tags '()))
    (dolist (file (directory-files got/blog-directory t "\.org$"))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (insert-file-contents file)
        (goto-char (point-min))
        (when (re-search-forward "^#\\+HUGO_TAGS:\\s-*\\(.*\\)" nil t)
          (let ((line-tags (split-string (match-string 1) "[ ,]+" t)))
            (setq tags (append tags line-tags))))))
    (delete-dups tags)))

(defun got/new-blog-post (title)
  "Create a new org-mode blog post in `got/blog-directory` with TITLE.
Prompts for existing tags (with the option to add new ones)."
  (interactive "sPost Title: ")
  (let* ((date (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))
         (slug (replace-regexp-in-string
                "[^a-z0-9-]" ""
                (replace-regexp-in-string
                 " " "-" (downcase title))))
         (filename (expand-file-name (format "%s-%s.org" date slug) got/blog-directory))
         (existing-tags (got--collect-existing-tags))
         (chosen-tags
          (completing-read-multiple
           "Select tags (or type new ones, space-separated): "
           existing-tags nil nil)))
    (find-file filename)
    (insert (format "#+TITLE: %s\n" title))
    (insert (format "#+DATE: %s\n" date))
    (insert "#+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ../hugo-site/\n")
    (insert "#+HUGO_SECTION: posts\n")
    (insert (format "#+HUGO_TAGS: %s\n"
                    (string-join chosen-tags " ")))
    (insert "#+HUGO_CATEGORIES: \n\n")
    (message "New post created: %s" filename)))

(provide 'init-hugo)

;;; init-hugo.el ends here

Then just a minor update in `init.el` to load it:

I was getting this strange error when I tried to generate my site via the rake generate command:

## Generating Site with Jekyll
identical source/stylesheets/screen.css
Configuration file: /Users/gordy/Documents/Personal/gordyt.github.io/_config.yml
            Source: source
       Destination: public
      Generating...
  Liquid Exception: undefined method `sort!' for nil:NilClass in _includes/post/categories.html, included in _layouts/post.html
jekyll 2.5.2 | Error:  undefined method `sort!' for nil:NilClass

Testing Org-Octopress

This is a test post using org-octopress…

I have finally gotten around to resurrecting my old test blog blog.gordontillman.info. I was originally using org-octopress which I like. But after it was no longer supported/available I just quit maintaining this blog.

As of today it is now a Hugo blog, currently using the ananke theme. Checkout the source branch of this repo for details.

It all started innocently enough. I had a deftype that was implementing several protocols. I had written all of the protocol functions inside the body of the deftype. And even though each function, by itself, wasn’t overly large, the entire blob of code was getting out of hand.

Here is a tiny little example with some made-up protocols and a type that embedded the protocol implementation inside the deftype. In the actual code there were many more methods that needed to be implemented.

(defprotocol Proto1
  (p11 [this])
  (p12 [this foo bar]))
(defprotocol Proto2
  (p21 [this])
  (p22 [this baz bin]))
(deftype MyType [item1 item2 item3 item4]
  Proto1
  (p11 [this] ...)
  (p12 [this foo bar] ...)
  Proto2
  (p21 [this] ...)
  (p22 [this baz bin] ...))

It all started innocently enough. I had a deftype that was implementing several protocols. I had written all of the protocol functions inside the body of the deftype. And even though each function, by itself, wasn’t overly large, the entire blob of code was getting out of hand.

Here is a tiny little example with some made-up protocols and a type that embedded the protocol implementation inside the deftype. In the actual code there were many more methods that needed to be implemented.

(defprotocol Proto1
  (p11 [this])
  (p12 [this foo bar]))
(defprotocol Proto2
  (p21 [this])
  (p22 [this baz bin]))
(deftype MyType [item1 item2 item3 item4]
  Proto1
  (p11 [this] ...)
  (p12 [this foo bar] ...)
  Proto2
  (p21 [this] ...)
  (p22 [this baz bin] ...))

In this post I document the steps required to install and configure Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) on an ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook.

My buddy at work just got a new Acer C720-3404 Chromebook. I have the ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook. We decided to do a real-world performance comparison with a sample task that we have to perform all of the time.

OK, this post is part of my continuing experiments with an ASUS C200 Chromebook. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 using crouton.

I had created two partitions on a Micro SD Card, one as Fat32 (EsFat actually) and the other as ext4.

The FAT32 partition mounts at /media/removeable/share and the ext4 partition mounts at /media/removeable/gordy. I tried storing various projects on the ext4 partition but when I tried to build from that partition I would get a permissions error.

One thing that really bugged me with my new ASUS C22MA Chromebook was the way that track-pad scrolling worked. By default it is exactly the opposite of my MacBook Pro.

I made a post yesterday that covered the steps required to install Ubuntu on an ASUS C200 Chromebook. One thing I noticed was that, while you are running Ubuntu, it ties up your terminal window and makes it unavailable for doing other tasks.

Introduction

I have been interested in seeing if would be possible to set-up a Chromebook so that some serious development work with it. It’s a given that you won’t be running any virtual machines on a Chromebook. But at this point I think you can do pretty much any thing else you might need to do.

In this post I document the steps required to install and configure Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) on an ASUS C200MA-EDU-4GB Chromebook.

After seeing with my own eyes how rapidly the very minimal the xmonad windowing manager starts up after logging in, I decided to upgrade an old Linux box I have at the office that is running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr).

OK, this post is part of my continuing experiments with an ASUS C200 Chromebook. I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 using crouton.

I had created two partitions on a Micro SD Card, one as Fat32 (EsFat actually) and the other as ext4.

The FAT32 partition mounts at /media/removeable/share and the ext4 partition mounts at /media/removeable/gordy. I tried storing various projects on the ext4 partition but when I tried to build from that partition I would get a permissions error.

I made a post yesterday that covered the steps required to install Ubuntu on an ASUS C200 Chromebook. One thing I noticed was that, while you are running Ubuntu, it ties up your terminal window and makes it unavailable for doing other tasks.

This post describes how to install and configure Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) with SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode) that is installed via Quicklisp on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

Introduction

I have been interested in seeing if would be possible to set-up a Chromebook so that some serious development work with it. It’s a given that you won’t be running any virtual machines on a Chromebook. But at this point I think you can do pretty much any thing else you might need to do.

I recently signed up for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with vpsdime. The idea is to set-up a complete development environment for all of my work and personal projects that I can access from a low-end device like a Chromebook or an iPad (with a suitable SSH app installed).

I’ve been trying to sort-out the details of what is required to be able to maintain a GitHub pages site via Octopress / org-octopress from multiple computers. The slight complicating factor is that the location of the git repository for the site is different on the two computers that I am using.

I’ve been trying to sort-out the details of what is required to be able to maintain a GitHub pages site via Octopress / org-octopress from multiple computers. The slight complicating factor is that the location of the git repository for the site is different on the two computers that I am using.

This post describes how to install and configure Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) with SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode) that is installed via Quicklisp on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

This post describes how to install and configure Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) with SLIME (Superior Lisp Interaction Mode) that is installed via Quicklisp on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr).

I have been using Ryder Carroll’s BulletJournal techniques for organizing my analog journal for about 6 months now. There are several things I really like about this system.

• It is easy to maintain
• It lets you carry around just one paper journal that you can use for everything; e.g., to-do lists, project notes, work and activity tracking, study notes, etc.
• It is very easy to customize to fit your needs.

Regarding that last point, I would like to share my current setup.

This is a great recipe from page 105 of ¡Delicioso! Cooking South Texas Style, compiled by the Junior League of Corpus Christi, Inc., ISBN 0-9609144-0-4.