/gempesaw/writing

A huge part of doing QA is taking screenshots and videos. Luckily, OS X makes it super easy to take screenshots with Command + Shift + 4. Unluckily, doing that all day long every day means the desktop gets super cluttered with your beautiful bug report pngs! Instead of manually deleting 'em, let Emacs do it for you :)

I recently heard about a new version of circe coming out so I went to try it out. I don't remember why I stopped using erc but afaik they both seem fine to use.

Bookmarks in Emacs are very, very useful for getting to places you frequently go. If you don't use them to help you navigate, you should consider it! For whatever reason, bookmarks are saved in an external file, not in an Emacs variable. I can't count the number of times I added a bookmark, closed Emacs, and inadvertently deleted it. Even with version control, I still kept losing bookmarks because I kept forgetting to save.

I've decided to get a bit OCD about my window sizes in Emacs, and I got tired of hitting C-x + to do balance-windows all the time. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do this, but I just added some advice around all of the commands I usually use to change the window layout: split-window-below, split-window-right, and delete-window.

Syntax highlighting on tumblr is a completely manual effort, as far as I'm aware. I don't know of any built-in highlighting or any certified methods that they advertise. I did some research and tried a couple different highlighters - some of them are out of date, some of them don't support lisp, and some of them are more complicated. I was looking for a decently recent one that had built-in lisp support and would be easiest to hook into a tumblr set up. I settled on highlight.js, which has helpful documentation on its own website and everything.