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Love #climbing, #running and #hiking. Don't #read or do as much #photography as I used to.

Work as a Research Software Engineer these days after time as a Medical Statistician and Genetic Epidemiologist.

Self-host a bunch of services.

#gnulinux #emacs #orgmode #gentoo #arch #Rstats #python #bash #git #forgejo #codeberg #gitlab #github

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Joined October 30, 2022

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https://blog.nshephard.dev/

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net someone after my own heart. We have rich, descriptive and effusive languages that carefully describe intent and meaning and yet people dumb things down and place an onus on the listener to decode what is being said. I detest Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) they are the bane of modern conversation

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Jun 24, 2026

Replying to @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social Looking forward to see what comes from your work with Motorola (current and past phone have been Motorola for last nine years). Interested to hear what other collaborations are in the pipeline too.

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Jun 21, 2026

Replying to @mwichary@mastodon.online

@mwichary@mastodon.online Beautiful, thanks for taking the time to write and craft that.

Muscle memory is so underrated but it's something that takes time to learn and develop. I've used #emacs for decades but still don't have all of the key-chords memorised.

I do sometimes mistakenly use the #magit key-chords in the terminal though and clobber my commit messages (C-c C-ccommits in Magit but erases the command line message I've typed!).

I also abhor touch-screen UI for typing it sooooo slow.

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @wdormann@infosec.exchange

@wdormann@infosec.exchange Perhaps of interest https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · May 10, 2026

Replying to @csantosb@sigmoid.social

@csantosb@sigmoid.social There is orgit-forge (and orgit) which provide functions to generate org-mode links to issues and pull requests, albeit to Forge/Magit buffers. https://github.com/magit/orgit-forge https://github.com/magit/orgit

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · May 09, 2026

Petition to sign if you think it would make any difference*

Migrate UK civil service to open-source software for data sovereignty & security - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/766230

* I sign petitions but rarely expect them to make any difference even if they get a response from 10000 signatures or discussed in parliament on reaching 100000 signatures

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @budin@mastodon.uy

@budin @thomasfuchs Check out whether you can use Calibre to get ebooks onto the device. https://calibre-ebook.com/ Works fine for my Kobo. (Although I refuse to use versions >8.9.0 because of the introduction of "AI" features) #calibre

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

RE: @tarsius@fosstodon.org

Do you use #emacs and #magit or #transient ?

Help one of the stand out #emacs package maintainers and developers by making a donation, no matter how small (ideally recurring).

See also https://magit.vc/donate/

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @hell@defcon.social

@hell Emacs is where I spend the majority of my time, never quantified.

dired is brilliant for file management
magit for all your Git needs
mastodon.el for mastodon

Useful communities...

Follow #emacs tab on Mastodon (use advanced queue and add a column for it)
EmacsStackexchange is a wealth of knowledge
/r/emacs is useful
@sacha newsletter
Blogs! Too many to list (& my RSS server is currently down)

Messy notes https://org-roam.nshephard.dev/#754f25a5-3429-4504-8a17-4efea1568eba

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Oct 10, 2025

Replying to @leahawasser@fosstodon.org

@leahawasser @pyOpenSci I've always liked the phrase... "When one person teaches two people learn"

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · May 18, 2024

Replying to @NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net

@NewtonMark@eigenmagic.net Weird given in the opening paragraph it states...

We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data. To develop non-generative AI/ML models for features such as emoji and channel recommendations, our systems analyze Customer Data (e.g. messages, content, and files) submitted to Slack as well as Other Information (including usage information) as defined in our Privacy Policy and in your customer agreement

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Oct 30, 2022

Replying to @darius@friend.camp

@darius Thanks this is really useful.

slackline :emacs: :orgmode: @slackline@mastodon.social · Oct 30, 2022

Replying to @graue@social.coop

@graue@social.coop Thanks, really interesting and useful article. As a recent sign-up I was confused about the metrics as they were showing for me by default. Once I enabled "Preferences > Appearance > Advanced Features" they disappeared from posts. Never bothered to think about the ratio's though.

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