It's been a really long time since I "lost" an hour fiddling with my dot #emacs. Felt "good". And reported a very tiny bug!
@johns You're doing better than me. Last commit to my dot #emacs (which is a whole directory, not just one file anymore) was:
> commit 30eeece13c39d6187e74f5cdd256cd784ad4a19b (HEAD -> master)
> Author: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org>
> AuthorDate: 2021-05-24 14:51:57 -0700
> CommitDate: 2021-05-24 14:51:57 -0700
When I read what you said, I figured it would actually be mid 2019.
I made 4 commits in 2021, 3 in 2020, and none before going back to 2 on 2018-01-01, then 3 in 2016.
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@tusharhero said:
> I fiddle a lot but forget to commit.
Ah, I forgot to check that, but `/bin/ls -lrta --time-style=full-iso` tells me last modification was 2021-12-08 14:15:28 -0800 …just a few months after my last commit.
I miss a time when I could improve my own tools.
@markgalassi told me once he does this _for a week_ every year. It briefly made me wish I'd been a scientist instead of an activist racing against the clock of diminishing worldwide software freedom.
@bkuhn @tusharhero @markgalassi @johns The theory behind tweaking one's Emacs config, of course, is that it's actually overall time-efficient to do so, because it makes you faster at doing the (presumably frequent) operations you optimized.
The practice, of course, is that I'm a bald-faced liar and that we all know perfectly well it's an uncontrollable impulse that has no connection to productivity whatsoever.
@kfogel @bkuhn @markgalassi @tusharhero Second order optimizations? My time spent yesterday was largely removing cruft (RIP livejournal posting from Emacs, shoutout @hober) that was generating warnings and complicating reusing the .emacs on multiple machines. So the only future thing this work made more efficient is...editing my .emacs.
@johns blast from the past, that