Til on Janusworx

2025-07-19T15:19:30+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:19:30 +0000

#TIL, that books† that teach Proof Writing are the Wren and Martin / Strunk and White of the #Maths world. Tactical knowledge that makes everything else easier.

WHY THE HELL DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS BEFORE?!
I would have started my Maths self study journey so much sooner 😂

† am currently skim reading Solow’s How to Read and Do Proofs

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/114880569040557565

#til, #maths

2025-01-26T04:20:15+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 04:20:15 +0000

#TIL i could download only part of a video thanks to #YTDLP

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/wiki/howdoidownloadpartsofavideo/

combined it with -x to download #ThePersuasions’ rendition of Looking for an echo from this lovely Spike Lee documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZZpkRwnNQ

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113892734739675252

#til, #ytdlp, #ThePersuasions

2025-01-20T05:06:19+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 05:06:19 +0000

Today I learnt how to get Org Agenda to show me only the day

https://janusworx.com/work/view-only-day-with-org-agenda/

tldr; (setq org-agenda-span 'day)

#mjbWrites #OrgMode #Emacs #TIL

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113858942009642596

#mjbwrites, #orgmode, #emacs, #til

2025-01-17T12:20:44+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:20:44 +0000

#TIL that the mp3 and flac audio formats* support multiple instances of the same tag. i can now tag a song with multiple genres. I can now list BoneyM with both pop and disco! Hurrah!

*I assume other formats do too, but my library is mostly m4a, alac, mp3 and flac

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113843663312793324

#til

2024-08-21T13:57:15+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:57:15 +0000

#TIL about --inplace with #rsync. (I’m copying close to a tb of data disk to disk on a local machine)

Goodness gracious what a difference in speed!

#Linux

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/113000358568496987

#til, #rsync, #linux

2024-07-17T05:46:53+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 05:46:53 +0000

#TIL that #KoboUtilities lets me store and restore reading progress to #Calibre

and here I was manually keeping track, all these years 😂

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215339

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112800249535250809

#til, #KoboUtilities, #calibre

2024-05-15T03:40:56+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 15 May 2024 03:40:56 +0000

#TIL want something similar to apt autoremove on #archlinux

Use: sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qdqt)

#Linux #Manjaro

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112443028681869564

#til, #archlinux, #linux, #manjaro

2024-02-23T02:56:44+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 02:56:44 +0000

#TIL: I could just C-c C-u to go up rapidly jump up the headline structure in an org file instead of just clacking up, up, up with my keyboard

#Emacs #OrgMode

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111978545459051982

#til, #emacs, #orgmode

2024-02-06T04:21:52+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:21:52 +0000

#TIL: Switching software branches in #Manjaro #Linux

https://janusworx.com/blog/note-to-self-switch-to-manjaro-unstable/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111882620933511683

#manjaro, #linux, #til

2023-11-17T14:53:08+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:53:08 +0000

#TIL

I got around some pesky Firefox errors when I would run profiles as part of #LinuxMint’s webapp manager.

Spoiler alert: #xdotool came in really handy!

I wrote about it here, https://janusworx.com/blog/getting-around-linux-mint-web-app-manager-window-errors/

#devops #scripting #linux #bash

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/111426455998547291

#til, #linuxmint, #xdotool, #devops, #scripting, #linux, #bash

2023-08-20T06:23:37+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:23:37 +0000

#TIL: Emphasise any text you select, in #OrgMode using the keyboard

Use Ctrl-c Ctrl-x Ctrl-f and it’ll let you choose your markup.

From #irreal’s latest #Emacs blog post
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11572

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110920506931058339

#til, #orgmode, #Irreal, #emacs

2023-08-16T02:39:43+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:39:43 +0000

#TIL: Since I sync my zettelkasten-esque Org Roam folder across multiple devices, using Syncthing, every once in while I’d get file conflicts and revisions and the Org Roam db would panic and log errors, because it would find multiple versions of the same file.

Today I learnt, I could exclude subfolders from my Org Roam path. using org-roam-file-exclude-regexp

I put in both my Syncthing subfolders and et voilà, no more errors!

(setq org-roam-file-exclude-regexp '("\\.stversions" "\\.stfolder"))

[#Syncthing](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Syncthing) [#Emacs](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/Emacs) [#OrgRoam](https://toots.dgplug.org/tags/OrgRoam)

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110896977266228070

#til, #syncthing, #emacs, #orgroam

2023-08-07T05:13:25+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:13:25 +0000

#TIL bungalow comes from Bangla!

bungalow (n.)
1670s, Anglo-Indian, “one-story thatched house,” usually surrounded by a veranda, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla “low, thatched house,” literally “Bengalese,” used elliptically for “house in the Bengal style”

via https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bungalow

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110846620811212281

#til

2023-07-19T09:44:58+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:44:58 +0000

and #TIL: RSS feed for a user’s #DeviantArt gallery is

<https://backend.deviantart.com/rss.xml?q=gallery:username>

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110740104706446116

#til, #deviantart

2023-06-23T08:15:47+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 08:15:47 +0000

#TIL

The folks responsible for Safari and Core Animation at Apple were also responsible for giving us the Nautilus shell for Linux (today’s #Gnome Files)

https://www.storiesofapple.net/working-at-eazel-an-interview-with-gene-ragan.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110592533934448813

#til, #gnome

2023-06-09T06:21:24+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:21:24 +0000

Been copying text manually from web pages into my #Zettelkasten since last June.

A year into my journey, I realise, I could’ve just used Adam Porter’s (#alphapapa) org-web-tools package to scrape it straight into my org file! [1] Just select the link, M-x org-web-tools-insert-web-page-as-entry and …
Boom!
The whole page!
Properly formatted! In my org file!

Better late than never 😂

[1] which I had installed and ready all the time!
#Emacs #OrgMode #TIL

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110512811809034696

#zettelkasten, #alphapapa, #emacs, #orgmode, #til

2023-06-06T06:34:28+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:34:28 +0000

#TIL, in #Emacs #OrgMode

press v c in Org agenda to see fishy things in your clocking data.

src: https://list.orgmode.org/CAC=HedC5NRmYJ2YdwsXncP8hiih=HYBUMmqDqHxoS50GKZVruQ@mail.gmail.com/

via: https://mbork.pl/2023-06-03_Org_agenda_clock_check

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110495876293114722

#til, #emacs, #orgmode

2023-04-13T04:04:57+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:04:57 +0000

#TIL: with #Emacs #OrgMode

I wanted to expand all my entries in my Org file, to see how large it had gotten, so I looked up how to do it.

To expand all tabs (org-show-all)
C-u C-u Tab

To close tabs to the startup visibility of the buffer (org-set-startup-visibility)
C-u C-u C-u Tab

Tada!

https://orgmode.org/manual/Global-and-local-cycling.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110189523608103710

#til, #emacs, #orgmode

2023-04-10T05:07:04+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 05:07:04 +0000

#TIL in #Emacs and #OrgMode:

If i want to timestamp an entry, I use C-c .
and if I want to do this *without* causing it to appear in the agenda, I use C-c !

The second step is pretty handy for me to date my entries in my decision journal.
I want to keep track of when I made a significant decision and my rationale behind it.
But, not something I want popping up in my agenda :)

Timestamps in Org Mode: https://orgmode.org/manual/Creating-Timestamps.html
Decision Journal: https://fs.blog/decision-journal/

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110172780910730038

#til, #emacs, #orgmode

2023-04-07T04:19:38+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 04:19:38 +0000

#TIL: #Anki has an inbuilt sync server!

I can go hog wild with my decks now! Hurrah!

https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110155607480886827

#til, #anki

2023-03-15T14:25:38+0000

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:25:38 +0000

#TIL about the GO111MODULE environment variable

https://janusworx.com/blog/quick-fix-go-mod-file-not-found-in-current-directory/

#go #golang #mjbWrites #Blogging #Linux #Tech

Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/110027757222115976

#til, #go, #golang, #mjbwrites, #blogging, #linux, #tech