macOS California Locations

2026-04-24 Fri 18:01:47

I wanted to visually see the location of macOS names, so asked Claude to draw an interactive map. The map also features downloadable wallpapers.

Published to hotter.surge.sh: macOS California Locations.

2026-04-24 Fri 17:56:50

Window configuration on m4pro

2026-04-22 Wed 13:43:58

MacBook Pro M4 Pro has larger screen and windows in Emacs behave differently, often ending up with 6 windows at once. That's not what I want.

Time to learn Window management in Emacs.

On <2026-04-21 Tue> I switched to ace-window from other-window and keeping track of what has changed.

Keybindings:

• {M-o}: ace-window
• {§}: ace-window
• {C-x o}: other-window (built-in)
• {C-u C-u M-o}: delete window
• {C-x }: winner-undo

Good:

• {C-u M-o}: swap windows, crux package no longer needed.
• window-extras package contains two functions – transpose-windows (same as {C-u M-o}) and toggle-window-split. Will keep it for now.

Bad:

• golden-ratio-mode is not triggered, because it adds after-advice (ad-Advice-other-window). The advice itself is called ‘golden-ratio-resize-window’. For now I disabled golden-ratio mode. Will use balance-window {C-x +} ad-hoc.

Things to try:

• toggle-window-dedicated {C-x w d}

textpod.el v0.3.0

2026-04-22 Wed 12:48:10

Another round of improvements of textpod.el, a companion Emacs package to Textpod.

ack ":ID:\s*textpod_" *.org | grep -v 2026-04-22 | head -n 20

2026-04-12.org:226::ID: textpod_20260412124048
2026-04-13.org:10::ID: textpod_20260414214110
2026-04-13.org:237::ID: textpod_20260414212612
2026-04-13.org:247::ID: textpod_20260414224720
2026-04-13.org:263::ID: textpod_20260414210103
2026-04-13.org:314::ID: textpod_20260414224944
2026-04-16.org:12::ID: textpod_20260416100352
2026-04-16.org:97::ID: textpod_20260417092822
2026-04-21.org:205::ID: textpod_20260421120000

(use-package textpod
  :config
  (setq textpod-id-property "ID"
        textpod-id-prefix "textpod_"
        textpod-token (cadr (auth-source-user-and-password "finita.myaddr.dev" "textpod"))
        ;;textpod-url "/notes"
        textpod-url "http://localhost:3000/notes"
        )
  :bind (("C-c b x" . textpod-set-id)
         ("C-c b b" . textpod-org-heading-to-note)
         ("C-c b o" . textpod-open-current-note)))

2026-04-21 Tue 21:31:06

I'm on vacation, in free time setting up new MacBook Pro machine.

Rewrite Textpod to Go

2026-04-21 Tue 12:00:00

On <2026-04-21 Tue> I rewritten Textpod from Rust to Go.

While I'm on vacation with the new MacBook Pro M4 Pro and I have installed only bare minimum on it, I don't have Rust toolchain but do have Go. So, asked Claude to do rewrite. The only external dependency is goldmark package to render Markdown as HTMLs.

Updated Elisp helpers:

(use-package textpod
  :config
  (setq textpod-token (cadr (auth-source-user-and-password "finita.myaddr.dev" "textpod"))
        ;;textpod-url "/notes"
        textpod-url "http://localhost:3000/notes"
        ))

(let ((default-directory "~/Developer/src/github.com/velppa/textpod"))
  (async-shell-command "go build -o ~/.local/bin/textpod ." "*textpod-build*"))

(let ((default-directory "~/Developer/src/github.com/velppa/finita-la-comedia/textpod")
      (buffer-name "*textpod-server*"))
  (when (get-buffer buffer-name)
    (kill-buffer buffer-name))
  (async-shell-command (format "textpod --token %s --base-path notes" textpod-token) buffer-name))

(browse-url (format "%s?token=%s" textpod-url textpod-token))

Links <2026-04-16 Thu>

2026-04-17 Fri 09:28:22

• robinovitch61/jeeves: AI agent conversation history browser
• calcom/cal.diy: Scheduling Software for Online Bookings
  • Cal.com Goes Closed Source: Why AI Security Is Forcing Our Decision
  • HN: Cal.com is going closed source | Hacker News
• JuliusBrussee/caveman: why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
• JuliusBrussee/cavekit: A Claude Code plugin that turns natural language into blueprints, blueprints into parallel build plans, and build plans into working software with automated iteration, validation, and cross-model peer review.
• affaan-m/everything-claude-code: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.
  • Skills | ECC Selective Install Builder (SaaS around skills)
• forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills: A single CLAUDE.md file to improve Claude Code behavior, derived from Andrej Karpathy's observations on LLM coding pitfalls.
• miolini/autoresearch-macos: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically adopted for MacOS
• karpathy/nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

Advice to org-roam-dailies-goto-today

2026-04-16 Thu 10:03:52

Currently, when calling org-roam-dailies-goto-today, {C-c n d} for me, Emacs switches to the daily note buffer, but moves point to (point-min). I want to advice to first check if the buffer with "YYYY-MM-DD.org" (for today) already exists, and if so, switch to this buffer. Related to Org-roam.

Here's an advice function to achieve that:

(defun my-org-roam-dailies-goto-today-advice (orig-fun &rest args)
  "Switch to today's daily note buffer/window if it exists, otherwise create it.
Preserves point position if buffer already exists."
  (let* ((today (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d"))
         (daily-buffer-name (concat today ".org"))
         (existing-buffer (get-buffer daily-buffer-name))
         (existing-window (and existing-buffer
                               (get-buffer-window existing-buffer t))))
    (cond
     ;; Buffer is already displayed in a window - switch to that window
     (existing-window
      (select-window existing-window))
     ;; Buffer exists but not displayed - switch to it in current window
     (existing-buffer
      (switch-to-buffer existing-buffer))
     ;; Buffer doesn't exist - create it
     (t
      (apply orig-fun args)))))

(advice-add 'org-roam-dailies-goto-today
            :around #'my-org-roam-dailies-goto-today-advice)

This advice:

1. Checks for buffer by name (not file path)
2. If the buffer is displayed in any window (even in another frame), selects that window
3. If the buffer exists but isn't displayed, switches to it in the current window
4. Otherwise calls the original function

To remove the advice later:

(advice-remove 'org-roam-dailies-goto-today
               #'my-org-roam-dailies-goto-today-advice)

• Edit <2026-04-17 Fri>: check existing buffer using buffer name, not the buffer vising a file, that depends on org-roam-dailies-directory (I have two different, but one set of dailies).
• Edit <2026-04-21 Tue>: check if the daily buffer is already opened in existing window, if so - switch to it.