Dig a little deeper, get past the insanity

Look Ma, no 'puter

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:49:44 GMT

LJ'ing from my N9

Because I'm very easily amused.

Though I don't think I'll be making a habit of it... The client is yucky.

Posted via LiveJournal app for Nokia N9

Writer's Block: Fairest one of all

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:34:21 GMT

What is something you would never want to change about yourself?

View 1236 Answers

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.30)

Writer's Block: Let freedom ring

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:30:13 GMT

How do you celebrate Independence Day in your country?

View 1006 Answers

Oh My Fucking GOD!

To the idiot yank who posted this question:

July 4th Independence Day is a US holiday celebrating the day that the United States of America became an independent nation (as I understand it). It is celebrated in the US, by US citizens. The rest of the world doesn't care. The rest of the world doesn't celebrate the independence of foreign nations, least of all, yours.

Perhaps I should ask you… How do you celebrate Australia Day? Or Canada Day? How about Iraq Day? Do you celebrate the Iraqi nation's special day?

To answer your question, how does the vast majority of the world celebrate USA's Independence Day? We don't. For most of us it is just another ordinary day. It has no significance whatsoever. A few of us might mourn however.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.30)

Writer's Block: Drawing a blank

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:31:19 GMT

Have you ever forgotten to do something really important? What was it?

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I don't know… I can't remember. Besides, whenever I do remember something that I have forgotten to do, I generally do the thing, and so it is no longer an undone forgotten thing, but a done remembered thing.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.30)

SXEmacs/LJ v1.30 is released -- New Features!

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:25:13 GMT

New Features nom nom nom

See the log below for the details, but the hot news today is that SXEmacs/LJ can now edit, or even delete, previously posted Livejournal entries.

Understand that this is an initial implementation and it may not be everything that you expect. For instance:

You can only edit or delete posts that you have an archive copy of, and was archived from v1.30 or newer SXEmacs/LJ. Archiving now defaults to "on" because of this.
You cannot change the date/time of an entry.
No care or checks are taken to ensure you are editing the most up to date version of an entry. Whatever you send as the edit will overwrite whatever is currently online.

Rest assured that I will be working on eliminating some (or all) of those restrictions.

Getting The Code

Grab it via git…
git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

The Gory Details

And here is the log…

Edit or delete old posts.

This patchset adds the ability to edit (including delete) Livejournal
entries that have already been posted to Livejournal.

There are three caveats to this:

1) For it to work, `lj-archive-posts' must be t (now the default).

2) You can't edit/delete a post that wasn't originally posted from

SXEmacs/LJ (that has the editing/deletion features)

3) Post date/time cannot be altered. You either get it right when

you post the entry the first time, or you edit the date from the

Livejournal site.

Yes, I know that is a little sucky, but hopefully that won't be the
case for long. I am working on ways to eliminate at least the 2nd
caveat.

* lj.el (lj-post-proc-parser): Save the itemid as well.

* lj.el (lj-item-id): New. Stores the itemid from the just posted

journal entry.

* lj.el (lj-archive-post): Put the itemid and permalink at the top

of the achived post.

* lj.el (lj-stringify-id): New. Turns an itemid into a string.

* lj.el (lj-delete-post-internal): New.

* lj.el (lj-delete-post-proc-parser): New.

* lj.el (lj-header-regexp): Add X-LJ-URL, X-LJ-ItemID

* lj.el (lj-header-itemid): New face.

* lj.el (lj-header-url): New face.

* lj.el (lj-font-lock-keywords): Add X-LJ-URL and X-LJ-ItemID

headers.

* lj.el (lj-goto-x-lj-url): New.

* lj.el (lj-goto-x-lj-itemid): New.

* lj.el (lj-edit-old-post): New.

* lj.el (lj-construct-url): Update to allow for editing old posts.

* lj.el (lj-archive-post): Handle editing old posts.

* lj.el (lj-generate-new-buffer): Lose some whitespace being

injected into the created buffer.

* lj.el (lj-delete-old-post): New.

* lj.el (lj-archive-posts): Change default to t.

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.29)

Writer's Block: Doing the time warp

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:04:36 GMT

If you could travel through time with someone you know, who would you choose, and why?

First question listed was submitted by andosha21. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.)

View 708 Answers

Me. Because I think I'm the only person that I could put up with and tolerate for any length of time.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.29)

Writer's Block: Showing your pride

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:58:52 GMT

What do you so strongly believe in that you would march in the streets to support, and why?

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I believe in a lot of things, and I'd like to believe that I believe in them all strongly. But would I march in the streets in support of any of them? More than likely not. Not because my beliefs aren't strong enough, but because I couldn't be arsed marching in the streets (or any place) for any reason.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.29)

Writer's Block: Going for the throat

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:33:50 GMT

Would you rather be a vampire or a vampire hunter, and why?

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Hmm, lessee… would I rather be a non-existant made-up beastie, or someone who is so screwed up that they believe that fictional creatures exist enough that they waste their lives hunting them.

That's a tough choice.

I choose reality by not choosing either.

However, if passing on this truly monumental (sic) life choice is not an option, then I'd choose vampire. Why? Because not existing seems like much less work and more fun than chasing shadows.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.28)

SXEmacs/LJ v1.28 is released

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 04:19:15 GMT

Minor Updates

Just a very quick update here to allow for the possible presence of a signature in the post buffer when we're setting up to answer a Writer's Block question.

Getting The Code

Get it as normal from git…

git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

The Gory Details

And here's the log…

Writer's Block fixes -- allow for signature.

* lj.el (lj-qotd-subject): Don't go to point-max in the post body

as there might be a signature that we should leave at the bottom.

* lj.el (lj-narrow-to-qotd): Recenter the qotd buffer after

selecting a qotd so #'shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer will

work properly.

Also, insert qotd template at top of post body, not the bottom.

lj.el (lj-qotd-quit): The lj-goto- commands set point, so no

need to set it explicitly.

* lj.el (lj-writers-block): Ditto.

Also, allow for a signature being present and don't delete it if

it is.

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.28)

Writer's Block: Toy box travesties

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:35:58 GMT

What childhood toy did you desperately want that your parents refused to give you? Do you still think about getting one?

First question listed was submitted by retropopbear. (Follow-up questions, if any, may have been added by LiveJournal.)

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A teddy bear.

Do I still think about getting one? No. It didn't take too long to discover that there was no need… wives and girlfriends make much better bed companions.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.27)

SXEmacs/LJ v1.27 is released

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:04:18 GMT

Apparently Size DOES matter

So I was lazily flipping through the LJ API docs and I discovered that they impose limits on the maximum size of a post. I had no idea. Not only that, but there are also limits on the size of the subject header and other metadata fields as well.

This update adds code to SXEmacs/LJ that checks for these limits before you post. If you exceed the limits you'll get an error telling you what limit was exceeded, and by how much.

In other news

I had always intended SXEmacs/LJ to have its own abbrev table. I had gone as far as defining the table. I'd just left one thing off… I hadn't bloody turned on abbrev-mode in the LJ-Post buffer. Oops.

That's now fixed, so you can now define and use abbrevs to your heart's content.

Getting the code

Grab it via git…

git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

The Gory Details

And here's the log

commit 7a47792891785ceeedc2676bee9c24ce36ca48a1
Author: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Date: Sat Jun 25 20:10:07 2011 +1000

Impose size limits as per Livejournal API docs.

This patchset makes sure you don't exceed the limits on size that

Livejournal imposes on entries.

It also fixes a quick little bug to do with abbrevs… I kinda forgot

to turn them on.

* lj.el (lj-check-limits): New. Livejournals puts limits on the

length of posts and the headers etc. This ensures you don't

exceed them.

* lj.el (lj-post): Use it.

* lj.el (lj-mode): Turn on abbrev-mode.

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Signed-off-by: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.27)

SXEmacs/LJ v1.26 is released

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:23:28 GMT

Woohoo! New Goodies

It's all pretty much described in the log below, but here are a couple of new features for SXEmacs/LJ…

Sign-off your posts with a user-definable signature
Tell the world that you use sexy software with some shameless self-promotion

Getting the code

Grab it via git…

git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

The Gory Details

And here is the log

New signature feature and self-promotion.

This patchset brings some shameless self-promotion by adding a byline to
the bottom of a post: "Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (version string)". It is in
a fairly small font and out of the way so should be reasonably
inconspicuous, but you can turn it off if you want to with…

(setq lj-self-promote nil)

There's a new user variable, `lj-signature', the value of which is
inserted at the bottom of the post buffer if it is non-nil. It is
inserted verbatim, so making it pretty (HTML formatting) is up to the
user.

* lj.el (lj-byline): New. Nothing wrong with a bit of

self-advertising, I reckon. ;-)

* lj.el (lj-self-promote): New. When non-nil tell the world that

you use sexy software.

* lj.el (lj-post): Optionally add the byline.

* lj.el (lj-preview): Include byline in preview.

* lj.el (lj-validate): Ditto.

* lj.el (lj-signature): New. Lets you include a sig at the bottom

of a post.

* lj.el (lj-generate-new-buffer): Insert the signature if it is set.

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.26)

Testing a couple of upcoming new SXEmacs/LJ goodies

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:15:57 GMT

This is just a test, noting to see here, unless you're me

Till next time...
Steve

Posted via: SXEmacs/LJ (SXEmacs-22.1.14/LJ: 1.25)

SXEmacs/LJ v1.25 is released

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:36:37 GMT

More Sexiness

This update makes for much better handling of Writer's Block question answering. If you were to answer one of those Writer's Block question on the LJ site, the Subject header in the composition form was pre-filled with a title they'd given the question. But not if you used SXEmacs/LJ.

The problem was that the titles are not stored with the questions and I had no idea where the info was coming from. Well, after a bit (read: lot) of poking about, I finally found the source. So now when you do `C-c w' in SXEmacs/LJ and choose the question you want to answer, the subject header will be pre-filled just like it is if you were to do it on the LJ site.

How Valid Is Your Validation

I've also updated the validation code so that it now checks for more problems in your markup. So if you are going to validate, you better make sure you know what you are doing when it comes to writing XHTML markup.

More Bugfixes

What would be the point of an update if I didn't include the odd bugfix or two. In this update I've fixed a problem that was causing the Writer's Block buffer to have no questions displayed.

Getting the code

As usual, grab it via git…

git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

Or grab just lj.el from…

http://bastard.steveyoungs.com/~steve/lj/lj.el

The Gory Details

And here is the log…

commit 0c0ea7374cd19ad4959ea22e981de0c1f4bbb2f4
Author: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Date: Fri Jun 24 16:28:19 2011 +1000

Update Writer's Block code to pre-fill Subject header.

* lj.el (lj-parse-qotd-archive): Fix regexp.

* lj.el (lj-qotd-subject): New. Pre-fills the Subject header with

the title of the Writer's Block question.

* lj.el (lj-narrow-to-qotd): Use it.

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Signed-off-by: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>

commit 6a599ad3764aba83a78ca64e7f0545ed559ee806
Author: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Date: Fri Jun 24 11:02:46 2011 +1000

Tweak the validation code a bit. Make it check for more problems

* lj.el (lj-validate-footer): Massage the validation command to

check for and warn about more things.

* lj.el: Add blurb about validating in commentary section.

Signed-off-by: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>

SXEmacs/LJ v1.24 is released.

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:36:53 GMT

It's been ages since I've used SXEmacs/LJ and this morning I found a bug! So have a fix.

Bugs, ick! Squish em, Quick

The bug was in the code that searches through your web browser settings looking for LJ cookies. It turns out that if it was set on auto (the default) and you happened to not have the first browser to be searched installed… Wham, Bam, infinite loop!

Infloop BEGONE!

To Tweet, Or Not… Nope, Can't

In other news, I've also turned off the twitter updating. Why? Because Twitter, in their infinite wisdom (sic) decided that Basic Auth was too, erm, basic, so they turned it off. SXEmacs/LJ was using, you guessed it, Basic Auth to send status updates.

So until I rewrite it to use the OAuth crapola, the SXEmacs/LJ twitter stuff is off.

You can still get your LJ posts announced in your Twitter stream by fiddling with your setting on your LJ profile. But, where SXEmacs/LJ is concerned, this is an "Always On" or "Always Off" thing. You can't set it for individual posts like you can if you write the post on the LJ site.

Sorry about that, but the API docs don't even mention twitter at all, so I'm kinda stuck (until OAuth). It's actually why I had added the twitter stuff to SXEmacs/LJ in the first place… So you could turn it off on your profile and choose which posts you wanted tweeted in SXEmacs/LJ.

The Log

And here is the log of the changes I made

commit 2f5cd6c9d1ce0ea807feecf2be69857edb86750d
Author: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Date: Thu Jun 23 17:36:48 2011 +1000

Fix an infinite loop, and disable twitter updates

* lj.el (lj-get-cookies): Fix infinite loop when flavour is auto.

* lj.el (lj-post): Don't attempt to update Twitter. It's broke.

Erm, I mean that SXEmacs/LJ twitter updating is broken, not that

Twitter itself is broken… at least not all the time. :-P

* lj.el (lj-version): Bump.

Signed-off-by: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>

Getting The Code

If you want to get your hands on this rilly sexy LJ client, and you have git installed…

git clone http://git.sxemacs.org/slh

There is also a copy of just the lj.el at http://bastard.steveyoungs.com/~steve/lj/lj.el

Have fun with it.

Hmm, does this thing still work?

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:08:16 GMT

Seeing as though my SXEmacs is getting closer and closer to being as usable as it used to be I thought I'd see if this here SXEmacs/LJ of mine still worked.

If you're reading this I guess it does.

Funky Shit I'd Give My Left One To Do

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:50:34 GMT

Day-dreaming. We all do it. There's nothing wrong with it. It can be very healthy and even rewarding. Some of us, like me, tend to take it to the extreme. We can let it take over our lives, and that, my friends, is the fast lane to insanity.

So after bringing myself back from the brink of spending the rest of my days in a rubber room, I thought I'd share with you a list of some of my most recent absent-minded delusions. I'd love to read what you think of these wonders so please don't be shy… leave a comment.

Invent a time machine that can transport me to any place in space and time. Do you think they'd let me call it a "Tardis"? I'd love to go back and see the pyramids being built. Or spend some time with a group of Neanderthals (real ones, not rugby players). To be able to chat one on one with all of history's greats… da Vinci, Columbus, Solomon, Erik the Red, Newton, Einstein, Alexander the Great, even the guy who invented the wheel. Wow, that'd be something, wouldn't it? And why restrict ourselves to the past, what would things be like 10,000 years from now into the future?
Being able to travel vast distances in the time it takes to blink. By "vast distances", I mean billions of lightyears. I refuse to believe that our pathetic little planet is the only place where inteligent life has evolved. I want a way to go drop in for tea and crumpets with these other inteligent lifeforms.
Find a way to have a sustainable civilisation that doesn't use or need money. Put an end to poverty for all time.
Sail, unpowered, across an ocean. I think that the Pacific is the one that is most appealing to me. I don't want to do it alone, but with no more than one or two others. And I don't want to make a race out of it or break any records. Just want to do it.
Spend a year alone on a deserted island. Obviously the island must have the resources I'm going to need to survive.

Oh, there's also a few other things, but they're all kinda boring. Things like…

Write several novels
Sky-Diving
Run a marathon
Climb a mountain
Work and live in Antartica for 6 months

Well, that's it. Well the stuff I'm prepared to voice out loud, anyway. :-) Hope you enjoyed it. Hope it makes you think up some wonders of your own. But most of all, I hope you let me know what goes through your mind when you read my ramblings.

Till next time…

SXEmacs/LJ v1.23 released (minor compat fix)

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:27:13 GMT

peanuthorst, I'm pretty sure that this should get you going again. Let me know if it doesn't.

Summary: Fix URL encoding problem
Keywords: bugfix, internal

This changeset fixes a problem that has recently cropped up. The
LiveJournal people now insist that the useragent be properly encoded. It
is actually amazing that this used to work before. Anyhoo, fixed now.

* lj.el (lj-construct-url): Ensure that the useragent is URL-encoded

Try to load ffi-curl along with ffi-sqlite.

(lj-version): Bump.

bug hunting

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:05:20 GMT

Something's broke

Third Step In Finding A Horstie-Bug [ssh + new SXEmacs]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:02:32 GMT

In the third test, we again connect to the remote machine via SSH. However, this time we start a new SXEmacs instance on the remote and post from there.

peanuthorst, sorry man, I'm afraid that I cannot reproduce your bug. Can you give me anymore info (preferrably an exact error message)?

Second Step In Finding A Horstie-Bug [ssh+gnuclient]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:52:42 GMT

Step two in this bug tracking exercise is to log into remote machine via SSH, connect to an already running SXEmacs instance via gnuclient, and post from there.

First Step In Finding A Horstie-Bug [no ssh]

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:37:19 GMT

Just a quick test to verify that everything is still working properly with SXEmacs/LJ as used from localhost.

SXEmacs/LJ v1.22 (drafts & disaster recovery)

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:58:30 GMT

SXEmacs/LJ wasn't behaving itself very well in times of trouble and disaster. This version addresses that short-fall. The changes log below explains the nifty new features.

I'd like to say a big THANKYOU to peanuthorst for giving me the idea for these new features. Without his 'puter crashing I wouldn't have thought of it. :-)

Summary: SXEmacs/LJ drafts and disaster recovery.
Keywords: enhancement, internal, newfeature, user-visible

This changeset adds a couple of nice features to SXEmacs/LJ. You can now
save a post you are working on to edit/submit at a later time. To save
the current post simply invoke #'save-buffer `C-x C-s'. To edit that
draft later, `M-x lj-edit-draft', it will prompt for a draft file name
completing in `lj-drafts-directory'.

It is possible to have multiple drafts at any one time.

Another cool feature added, is that lj-mode now has its own abbrev
table.

Some disaster recovery has also been implemented. Now when you start
SXEmacs/LJ it will check to see if there are any auto-saved drafts in the
drafts directory. If any exist you'll be asked if you want to recover
them, say "yes" and the draft is recovered and you are dropped into a
lj-mode buffer with the recovered draft. If there are multiple drafts
that need recovering then they are all handled and separate lj-mode
buffers are created.

* lj.el (lj-drafts-directory): New.

(lj-generate-new-buffer): Create a file on disc for draft purposes.

(lj-edit-draft): New.

(lj-post): Save the draft out to disc prior to posting to LiveJournal,

and delete it once the post is accepted.

(lj-abbrev-table): New abbrev table for use in LJ-Post buffers.

(lj-mode): Use the new abbrev table and turn on auto-save.

(lj-session-auto-save-files): Return a list of auto-saved drafts.

(lj-recover-drafts): New. Recover auto-saved drafts.

(lj): Use #'lj-session-auto-save-files and #'lj-recover-drafts.

SXEmacs/LJ v1.21 is released (bugfix)

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:03:53 GMT

I noticed a bug in the sql cookie extraction code. It wasn't picking the right sql query of the two that SXEmacs/LJ now supports (Mozilla-based and Chrome-based). Now fixed.

As always, download here

Summary: Fix SQL cookie extraction
Keywords: bugfix, internal, trivial

This changeset fixes a problem with determining if the SQL cookies are
Mozilla-based or Chrome-based even if lj-cookie-flavour isn't set.

* lj.el (lj-extract-sql-cookies): Add an argument to distinguish between

Chrome-based and Mozilla-based sql queries.

(lj-get-cookies): Use it.

(lj-extract-sql-cookies): Don't bother copying the cookie file to the

lj-directory.

SXEmacs/LJ v1.20 released

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:27:35 GMT

I'm using Google Chrome as my main web browser now, so figured I better make sure SXEmacs/LJ supports extracting Livejournal cookies from Chrome. So, without further ado…

Revision: slh--main--0.5--patch-12
Archive: steve@sxemacs.org--2009
Creator: Steve Youngs <steve@sxemacs.org>
Date: Sat Dec 19 17:13:59 EST 2009
Standard-date: 2009-12-19 07:13:59 GMT
Modified-files: lj.el
New-patches: steve@sxemacs.org--2009/slh--main--0.5--patch-12
Summary: Support Google Chrome cookies
Keywords: enhancement, internal, newfeature

* lj.el (lj-cookie-flavour): Add chrome.

(lj-extract-sql-cookies): Support Chrome sql cookies.

(lj-get-cookies): Support Chrome cookies.