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Operations 26w35

This session is for operational work during this week. Address (monkey-task-context) items directly, one subheading in the NOTE is for one item.

Take: Emacs is not a text editor, it's an extensible interface to work with computer. That old joke about Emacs being an operating system is about that. Well, and it comes with great text editor.

Example. Why using terminal when you can run a shell command from Emacs? async-shell-command, start-process, make-process and likes (e.g. ghostel-shell-command was trivial to implement).

In the core of that is several orthogonal concepts that blend together: buffer, point, region, keymap, completion. Plus Elisp programming language, being simple but stood the test of time, being Lisp 2 (separate namespaces for variables and functions), and having flat namespace make it easy to learn and adopt to your needs. Elisp-oriented Emacs concepts: packages, hooks, advices.

                      ╭─ buffer ── point ── region
                      │                     ╭─ C-c ── context
                      ├─ keymap ── prefixes ┼─ C-x ── always
          ╭─ concepts ┤                     ├─ C-h ── help
          │           │                     ╰─ M-g ── "go"
          │           ╰─ completion ┬─ minibuffer ── completing-read
          │                         ╰─ completion-at-point ── capf
          │        ╭─ Lisp-2 ┬─ variables namespace
          │        │         ╰─ functions namespace
          │        ├─ flat namespace
          │        ├─ macro
          │        ├─ function
          ├─ Elisp ┤                          ╭─ list
          │        │                          ├─ alist
          │        │           ╭─ collections ┼─ plist
          │        ╰─ variable ┤              ├─ hash-map
          │                    │              ╰─ cons cell
« Emacs » ┤                    ├─ defconst
          │                    ╰─ defvar
          │                                         ╭─ :init
          │                          ╭─ use-package ┼─ :config
          │              ╭─ packages ┤              ├─ :custom
          ├─ Emacs-Elisp ┤           │              ╰─ :bind
          │              │           ├─ package.el
          │              │           ╰─ autoload ── user-lisp-directory ── Emacs 31
          │              ├─ hooks
          │              ╰─ advices
          │                        ╭─ mailing list
          │         ╭─ emacs-devel ┴─ maintainers communicate there ┬─ Sean Whitton
          │         │                                               ╰─ Eli Zaretski
          │         ├─ reddit ── users ┬─ r/emacs
          ╰─ people ┤                  ╰─ r/orgmode
                    │              ╭─ Prot
                    ╰─ personalies ┼─ Sasha Chua
                                   ├─ Mike Zamansky
                                   ╰─ u/minad ── u/oanolin ── abo-abo ── alphapapa

On <2026-08-23 Sun> I read in stumbled on this post - Anthropic: Please Have Daisy the CC Engineer Do a Video! : r/ClaudeAI.

My GNU Emacs configuration works from two machines I regularly use. Configuration is an Org file living within my Notes corpus. Then on save it's tangled into el file and init.el loads it. I keep custom packages in separate repository that configuration adds to load-path.

On <2026-08-22 Sat> I bumped into situation, when on one of machines, after fresh Emacs startup a symbol from lozenge.el package is not defined.

We use Datadog Case Management at $WORK for managing failed batch jobs. When a job fails, it sends event to EventBridge then to Datadog Events, then a Monitor captures and opens a new case, providing all the details of failure (links, names, timing, basically what comes in the event). Automation workflow archives duplicated active case by title, so sequential daily runs only lead to the first case. Works really well, about 4000 cases have been created in the last 6 month of usage. AI agents are checking open cases on schedule and do root cause analysis and resolve cases (open PRs with fixes) semi-autonomously (Claude became lazy recently).

Today I noticed that Datadog renamed Case Management to Work Management, and it changes premise quite a lot. Do you remember Slack mission "Slack - where work happens" - well, often it's true, but when it is true, it means somebody doesn't do their real work. If we have a product "Work Management", then, well, why don't we use it to manage work, and manage work in Slack/Notion/Shortcut/Github. Fifth place to manage work. Thank you very much, dear Datadog, you went from a strong concept of a funnel – Alert → Case → Incident – into vague "Work Management"

Case Management API has been always not pleasant: heavy relying on UUIDs, lack of public API methods - can't link cases, can't READ COMMENTS - yes, you can POST a comment, but you can't read it back. To overcome these limitations, I had to check what Datadog UI is doing and wrap it into datadog-mcp-server.

What has changed in the API side of things with this renaming? Absolutely nothing, Work Management doesn't exist nor in API reference nor in the API requests, they still go to https://app.datadoghq.com/api/v2/cases.

Textpod received better assets sharing.

New logic:

• all local files (Org link with file: or attachment:) are be copied to assets and served from textpod.
• assets are served inline without downloading.

Examples:

• reddigg-rss - link with file:

Image:

In Update Reddigg is now a fullblown reddit client : r/emacs the reddigg.el author, u/Goator, asked me to share extensions I've (well, Claude Code) written for reddigg. Sharing.

reddigg-rss

advice reddigg to use RSS feed instead of json as Reddit blocked the latter

reddigg-images-to-html

create standalone HTML with all the images from current view in masonry grid

Here's my reddigg configuration block:

(use-package reddigg
  :config
  (require 'reddigg-images-to-html)
  (require 'reddigg-rss))

Imgur post can carry multiple images. Can be useful for notes.

Yes, it's sending my images to some company on the internet, so I (eventually) better self-host it, but Imgur has been alive for a long time and I like it.

Let's try to embed Imgur post:

Textlog replies flow

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textlog.el

A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS.

HN

Show HN: textlog

github

stagas/textlog

website

https://textlog.cc

(no term)

(◊ff 'velpa "textlog.el")

I created handle @hotter and ./src/textlog.el package to send regions to textlog.

Microblogs, related to Textpod.

Another self-hosted microblogs and related:

• knlb.dev | Scribbles
• Org Social - Decentralized Social Network, using Org Mode
• twtxt - IndieWeb - dead

I'm using Handy.app (cjpais/Handy) for text-to-speech and hold-to-speak functionality. Which button to use? Right Option rarely used, but I do use it as Hyper key in Emacs, in particular {H-RET} calls visit-source (visit-source.el).

Right Control also rarely used and does exists on my Keyboardio Model 100. But, it turned out macOS remaps CapsLock to Right Control from the SystemSettings.app.

I need some remapping then, for internal keyboard only:

• CapsLock to Left Control
• Left Control to Right Control

To achieve that, store the plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.local.keyboard-remap.plist file.

To rebind live without reboot, run hidutil commands manually. In SystemSettings.app set default CapsLock binding (CapsLock to CapsLock).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
  "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.local.keyboard-remap</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/bin/sh</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>
      /usr/bin/hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E0}]}';
      /usr/bin/hidutil property --matching '{"VendorID":0x0,"ProductID":0x0}' --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000039,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E0},{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x7000000E0,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x7000000E4}]}'
    </string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>