Long Journey with Emacs

⚠️ The intention of this post is to remind myself why Emacs isn’t worth my time anymore. I’ve been using Emacs since 2015. I have developed more than 150 elisp packages, and maintained over 200 packages (including my packages). It’s been a long journey staying in the Emacs community, I think it’s a good for me to slow myself down and step back a little and think what I’ve accomplished through out these years. ...

July 8, 2023 · 5 min · 865 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Emacs Eask 101 - Build tool

I’ve developed more than 50 elisp packages, and maintain 100 or more of them. Developing an elisp package isn’t easy for a beginner, especially for those who want to publish their package to an ELPA. e.g., GNU Elpa, NonGNU Elpa, MELPA, etc. That’s why I use Eask to help me develop elisp packages. Therefore, in this article, I’m going to teach people how to use this tool to help you build your own elisp packages! 😄 ...

April 10, 2023 · 4 min · 659 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Fastest ELPA

What’s the fastest ELPA? Let’s define it first! The ELPA runs the fastest? No, that doesn’t make any sense. The ELPA serves you the fastest? Maybe. The definition for fastest ELPA in this article means it builds your packages the fastest! You might wonder why and how! Let me explain it to you! Normal ELPA, like MELPA, builds packages from the recipes directory, so it takes O(n) to do so. The more packages one ELPA holds, take longer the time to get packages to update to the server. The general solution is to use a more powerful PC to reduce the build time. ...

April 10, 2023 · 2 min · 403 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

First server migration

I have always been using AWS as my main web hosting choice. But I have come to the point that I reckon the price and services aren’t something that I need. Therefore, I have decided to switch to another web hosting company just for another taste. The main reasons are listed below: AWS charges you money when you click on their services without notifying the user. I dislike how it functions. The price is too high, plus I don’t really need it UI is awful, and UX is bad Jargons aren’t transferable (I’m picky) Now, let’s move into details. ...

September 10, 2022 · 3 min · 488 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Game Jam - Aug 2022

Timeline is placed in summer time, middle of July 2022, one of my friend (@henrykuh) invited me to join the Game Jam that he is going to host in Aug 2022. In the meantime, he has also invited me to rejoin the community MatchWorkshop , and become the headmaster of the Game Programming deparetment. Therefore, this Game Jam is treated as an opportunity to collaborate with other headmaster from other department in this community. 😕 ...

August 29, 2022 · 3 min · 574 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Emacs Eask - Alternative to Emacs Cask

🔰 Introduction The name Eask came from Emacs Cask ; if you already know what Cask is and what it does, please skip this and forward to the next section. (NOTE: Cask and Eask are interchangeable in this section) Eask is the dependency management tool for Emacs Lisp. It’s like npm to Node.js; but it isn’t exactly the same since Eask has fewer tools than npm, plus their ecosystems are slightly different. Below is the link Why Cask? has a better explanation. ...

May 29, 2022 · 4 min · 716 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

First static site generator

I’m recently hooked by the static site generator, hence I have decided to create one for myself. Why not? The huge reason is that I could host the site using the GitHub’s static site hosting services, but the one I have previously created in 2018 API-Reference-Template. is server base, which is not generator base. The static site generator isn’t hard to create, the most valuable technology is the frontend and UI/UX. However, I have already created the frontend for my own use. The main task for me would just have to extract the server base to generator base. I have also renamed the tool to SiraDoc, so then I’m able to use it for other sites as well! Just like the previous website, yet a lot easier and more suitable for the GitHub Actions’ environment! 😉 ...

September 26, 2021 · 1 min · 139 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Automate Personal License Activation in Unity CI

Following up the thread, My disappointing experience using Unity in a CI pipeline is also the biggest obstacle for me as well. Personal license (free version) of Unity will expire in a period of time depends on your region. The licensing system from Unity is partially contradict to the CI/CD concept since it will force the user to update their secret UNITY_LICENSE on their GitHub Actions. (Notice this does not apply to Plus/Pro users because they use a different licensing system!) 😖 ...

September 25, 2021 · 2 min · 290 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

Why I left USYD

WIP WIP 💬 Past experience WIP 😨 Puzzled WIP ❗ Awakening WIP 💬 Future WIP

September 15, 2021 · 1 min · 15 words · Jen-Chieh Shen

In a dilemma

This is a record, a message from me to one of my ex-firned. The talked was, 2020-05-06 While you are in a dilemma, we humans are totally normal to be afraid of it. This may be a process; afraid makes us strong and a much more experienced people. Humans suppose to grow like that! So let it be! Once you are afraid of something, don’t give up on trying it; think about the issue, think as hard as you can, and try to resolve it! Even if we couldn’t resolve the issue, it doesn’t mean we are bad, or the issue can’t be resolved in the later future. ...

May 6, 2020 · 2 min · 249 words · Jen-Chieh Shen