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I'm trying to get out of my Python/Javascript comfort zone and start contributing to other Fediverse projects that are built in other languages. If you are already using Emacs for your dev work in any of the above languages, can you share perhaps your configuration or at least recommended packages for beginners, which prioritize sensible defaults and can be used with minimal amount of fussing?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/10280862

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes-pictures

Theme in picture is ef-summer. I love these so much. They're a breath of fresh air among the other techy-cyber-hacker themes, yknow?

The other ones seem less active than this one.

It's gotten too much. I think 1100 is a bit too much custom ELisp code. I also got to a point where my customization started interfering with Doom's core modules, yielded weird errors from time to time. I found out that Doom's defaults are actually beautiful and idk guys I feel refreshed, I'm ready now to get shit done, I can now actually work™️. I have offloaded the annoyances to Henrik.

2024 year of bankruptcy let's go

I know that the fediverser project is quite a bit controversial due to the mirroring bots and how they were being used on alien.top, but today I'd like to talk about two other pieces of functionality which I believe have been ignored and eclipsed by the mirrors:

• The ability for users to signup to the lemmy instance by connecting via their Reddit account.
• The ability for instance admins to create a custom map of subreddit-to-lemmy communities, which can be used to auto-subscribe users who are registering via Reddit.

I think that these two pieces can really help solve the problem of user onboarding. Because it works as an extra service along with Lemmy, no changes in the core service are needed. For users, the possibility of starting an account on Lemmy and get a list of interesting content right away can reduce friction and would hopefully get more people to talk about it.

I'm particularly interested in hearing from the admins of the topic-focused instances, as (I believe) would have an easier way to reach out to the people that are closer to their interests. So, apologies in advance for the mass-tagging, here are the ones that I found on join-lemmy:

• @sal@mander.xyz
• @snowe@programming.dev, @ategon@programming.dev
• @fanaticus_admin@fanaticus.social
• @eerongal@ttrpg.network
• @admin@community.spoilertv.com
• @_Frog@feddit.ch
• @wintermute@feddit.de
• @skariko@feddit.it
• @ademir@lemmy.eco.br
• @admin@aussie.zone
• @hitagi@ani.social
• @edvdb@feddit.nl
• @Johannes@feddit.nu
• @poVoq@slrpnk.net
• @ijeff@lemdro.id
• @admin@lemmynsfw.com
• @smorks@lemmy.ca

To reiterate, this has nothing to do with the bots or mirrors deployed on alien.top. I'm only asking who would be interested in adding the functionality to allow user registration via Reddit OAuth. In case of any questions, feel free to ask here or reach out via matrix.

Most of the top 500 subreddits (by subscriber count) are fully mapped to the corresponding Lemmy community.

I've also ran a script to identify all the "over 18" subreddits that have a corresponding community on lemmynsfw, and linked them. This resulted in almost 700 communities.

In the following days, I'd like to find specific niches that need to be categorized and then see if any of the topic-specific instances would be interested in creating the communities that are missing.

Hi there,

I want to try emacs in my terminal-based workflow. I use tiling window manager (i3 - qtile) in ubuntu

so super+number changes the workspace. When starting an emacs with -nw, changing workspaces

super+[1, 2, 3, etc] inserts "IOIOIO" characters in my buffer.

Any ideas?

Hello, what is the quintessential lisp experience?

Is it the interactivity that is enabled by Common Lisp? So if this is the case could you say a bit about how SLIME + Common Lisp work together to experience the beauty of lisp experience?

Moreover if macros are the killer feature of lisp because you can extend the language and make dsls wouldn’t racket offer a quintessential lisp experience?

I am a newbie to emacs and Linux in general (started my linux journey 2 months ago) and want to learn emacs. Does anyone have good ressources to learn emacs as a beginner? Also should I use a distro like doom Emacs or should I do it from scratch

What's the best practice to have your custom elisp natively compiled, along with external packages?

So far I've only succeeded by doing the following:

• Move my custom elisp to a new file (emacs-lib.el) which starts with (provide 'emacs-lib)

• Manually run emacs-lisp-native-compile-and-load while visiting that file

• Change my init file to load the library:

  (setq elisp-dir "~/config/elisp") (add-to-list 'load-path elisp-dir) (require 'emacs-lib)

After restarting Emacs, I've checked that many of my custom functions are indeed native-compiled.

It would be nice if I could have my init file take care of compiling the library when missing or outdated. Even better if I didn't need the separate file, but that's no big deal.

I wrote a library that lets you cycle through the available themes in Emacs. F10 and shift-F10 keys will cycle forward and backward through the themes. The theme name is printed for reference.

https://github.com/tsengf/theme-cycle

Installation
Download theme-cycle.el into ~/.emacs.d.

Add the following to your Emacs configuration

(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d)
(require 'theme-cycle)
;; Load as many themes as you are interested in exploring.
(use-package doom-themes)
(use-package ef-themes)
(use-package modus-themes)
(use-package solarized-themes)

To Use

Use F10 to cycle forward through the themes. Use shift-F10 to cycle backward through the themes.

I'm new to Mastodon code and find it hard to understand exactly how some components are drawing and getting their data - If anyone could lend a hand or just answer a few questions, it would be amazing!

I'm also looking for admins who can install/test a branch or patch that extends the verify system in some nifty ways.

Please if you are familiar or just run your own instance, reach out because your help is greatly appreciated and could make the world a safer place.