Notices by Ethan Blanton (elb@social.sdf.org)

My #emacs people ... does anyone know how to re-process #mu4e contacts without re-indexing the entire mail database? When I add something to my contact filter I have to re-process 50k emails and it isn't great.

So am I correct that there's an online #ePub reader for #MIT #OpenAccess books, but that the only downloadable versions are PDF? (Or at least, that there _exist books_ in this condition?) For example, does anyone see how to get the ePub for either of these:

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5649/From-ASCII-Art-to-Comic-SansTypography-and-Popular
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5869/IntellivisionHow-a-Videogame-System-Battled-Atari

@screwtape Yeah, probably a generalized robustly-quoted string syntax and passing it to the regexp compilation function would be fine, and it would also solve other string quoting struggles.
@tfb @pymander

@screwtape
I could easily be sold on some syntax other than #//, just so long as my regexps don't turn into \\\\(\\\\) all over the place!
@tfb @pymander

I was just grousing about all the extra backwhacking of regexes in lisps, and like ... why don't lisps have #// regex readers? This seems like a neat and simple solution to that problem. Just turn #/regex/ into (make-regexp "regex-with-doubled-backslashes") and everybody's happy.

Someone do this for #Emacs #lisp stat, please.

I just killed like a hundred buffers in my running #emacs, a dozen or more of which were PDFs, images, or other media content. I didn't do it because of performance or resource consumption concerns, just because I was looking for some things in my buffer list and it was bothersome. Truly, we live in an amazing time; it's easy to forget that because so much software is so bad.

@BeAware @deepthaw They're using let's encrypt, the problem is that they provide hosting to members with subdomains and certs, and they get rate limited by let's encrypt. I don't know where things stand now, but I know in the past they've had trouble getting hold of someone at LE to work out a sustainable solution.

@howtophil My first real open source contribution was a Tcl/Tk client for a modem connection manager called connectd.