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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

@benleis Nice I can add this if you like! Definitely relevant!

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@oantolin Only 2! And me too haha. Hoping for some last minute submissions!

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@ctietze Hi Christian! The whole *-line implementation (including that top bar, the tab-bar). All the links are in the TLDR of that blog post: www.chiply.dev/post-svg-line The clock is defined in svg-line, and you can see the configuration of it in tab-bar in my config (all links […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

New post! "Emacs Teaches Emacs: The Missing README" www.chiply.dev/post-ask-emacs This is a condensed version of my very long June Emacs Carnival post on the same topic. I wanted to make this as I felt it would be more intuitive for beginners, who are most likely to benefit from […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

@oantolin Blew my mind 🤯 . The most interesting result is that the frame rate cost of SVG rendering scales with pixels. So for things like svg-line, svg-margin, and hatti where the images are tiny, Emacs works. I'm doing more experiments with full-frame animations. I'm predicting ~30fps frame […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

@oantolin It’s making me think about where else svgs can be applied. The performance is also amazing and you can use it to animate things which I’m excited to do experiments on. I ran a benchmark today and SVGs can play at over 200 fps which is so wild. I’m going to write a post later this week […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

@oantolin haha yes! I need to change my name on YouTube.

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

New blog post! This one demonstrates an Emacs package I created called svg-line, inspired by @rougier 's dual-header gist. For all status bars it provides support for multi-line bars, icons, wrapping, buttons, and left/right/center alignment. www.chiply.dev/post-svg-line #emacs #foss […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Has anyone else using #emacs wanted the status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-line, tab-bar) to be multi-line? Similarly, have any users ever wanted the margin to be multi-column? I'm working on a couple extensions that enable these that I'll publish next week. Just wanted to assay the […]

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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

It often happens that I discover some minor annoyance in #Emacs while I'm working. I try to resist the temptation to drop everything and fix it right then and there, and instead make a note (either mental or in my #OrgMode files) to come back and fix it later. One problem I had noticed is that […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

New blog post/video on my first Emacs package, space-tree! "space-tree: Workspace Management Trees in Emacs" This is a unique workspace management tool in Emacs as it allows for the hierarchical organization of workspaces. There is a video demo; and lots of prose on how space-tree works, and […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

@oantolin 😂 . I've been trying to put some linguistic eye-grabbers in my posts recently. I read this phrase in a book once, can't remember where, but I loved that phrase. The idea is it's basically 0 work, but I love the juxtaposition of 'astronomical' and 'close to 0'. Sort of brings you out […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

@oantolin 2: I'd say if you read your PDFs mostly within Emacs, org-noter is the better tool. I'd say my personal handling of PDFs is a little niche. But you are correct in that you can get an org-remark like experience with org-noter. In fact org-noter is likely more similar to the org-remark […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

@oantolin I agree, I think of org-noter as being analogous to org-remark, although I don't use it. org-noter is a great package, but my problem with it is that the org-noter highlights, IIRC, are not embedded in the PDF, which is important to me. I mostly read PDFs on mobile (tablet and phone) […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

I have a new blog post about the annotate-in-place note taking pattern in Emacs! This pattern brings the benefits of annotating physical documents with pen/paper to the digital note taking space, with a ton more features. It supports a variety of sources (files, web pages, elfeed, nov.el, etc […]

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Charlie Holland @chiply.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Just joined Mastodon a couple days ago and thrilled to be part of this vibrant community! I write about #software architecture and #emacs on my blog. Latest post: www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot The blog publishes long-form content intentionally […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

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