Sacha Chua

sacha@social.sachachua.com

Interests include: <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#Emacs</a>, <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#OrgMode</a>, <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/tags/elisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#elisp</a>, <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/tags/nodejs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#nodejs</a>, <a href="https://social.sachachua.com/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>,

Posts

Post #2390374
Slowing down and figuring out my anxiety #parenting #life #reflection
Post #2316115
In about 4 hours: May 7: Emacs Chat with Shae Erisson https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/05/may-7-emacs-chat-with-shae-erisson/ Thu May 7 1030H EDT / 0930H CDT / 0830H MDT / 0730H PDT / 1430H UTC / 1630H CEST / 1730H EEST / 2000H IST / 2230H +08 / 2330H JST
Post #2030935
2026-03-09 Emacs news #emacs #EmacsNews
Post #2030934
2026-03-16 Emacs news #emacs #EmacsNews
Post #2000103
https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/hacker-mindset/ "This is another common pattern among people who have a hacker mindset. They have gotten their hands dirty playing around with the technical parts, insisting on understanding every aspect of the work." ... "What we’re talking about here isn’t like going to school—it emphatically is not that—suffering through all of the boring prerequisites before you get to do the exciting parts. What we’re talking about is actually doing the fun...
Post #1819354
@pkal I started putting together a guide for newcomers-presets and I thought you might like it / have suggestions. =) What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme? Also, would something like fido-vertical-mode be nice to turn on? Newbies from a non-programming background might not think of using TAB right away, and fido-vertical-mode might be a good way to reduce a little bit of friction and suggest things.
Post #1377857
Reading tecosaur's lovely 317-page Emacs config PDF at https://tecosaur.github.io/emacs-config/config.pdf gave me a case of literate config envy, so I spent the morning wrangling my #Emacs configuration into a slightly prettier PDF. It is 736 pages long and 12 MB in size. My table of contents takes up 15 pages. I still want to add lots of commentary, implement more LaTeX exports for my custom link types, and tweak the design some more, but at least it's there now. =) https://sachachua.co...
Post #1215094
In a little over one hour, I'm going to chat with Prot about #emacs. =) This time I'm going to try livestreaming it! https://www.youtube.com/live/djE_pVlgDHg https://yayemacs.com [2026-04-16 Thu 10:30] (-0400) = Thu Apr 16 1030H EDT / 0930H CDT / 0830H MDT / 0730H PDT / 1430H UTC / 1630H CEST / 1730H EEST / 2000H IST / 2230H +08 / 2330H JST
Post #1147467
I've been experimenting with more live-streaming lately, and I have one this Thursday with Prot. https://sachachua.com/topic/live/ While looking through my "On this day" posts, I was amused to see this one from 5 years ago about sharing more of my discretionary time, with streaming as one of the stages that I didn't have the focus time to consider back then. https://sachachua.com/blog/2021/04/thinking-about-how-to-squeeze-more-out-of-my-discretionary-time/ It's so nice to s...
Post #1105240
My post from 12 years ago https://sachachua.com/blog/2014/04/digging-limiting-factors-comes-interviewing-people-podcasts/ reminds me that doing those #Emacs config walkthroughs in Emacs Chats was a lot of fun and maybe I can start them again next school year. Who might be up for something like that?
Post #923050
YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming #emacs #YayEmacs
Post #398634
2026-02-23 Emacs news #emacs #EmacsNews