Some brief notes, between tourist-moments.
- Temporary file races
I reported some issues against the lisp that is bundled with GNU Emacs, the only one of any significance related to the fall-back uudecode option supported by tramp.el.
(tramp allows you to edit files remotely, it is awesome.)
Inadvertantly I seem to have received a CVE identifier refering to the Mosaic web-browser. Damn. That's an old name now.
- Image tagging
A while back I wrote about options for tagging/finding images in large collections.
Taking a step back I realized that I mostly file images in useful hierarchies:
Images/People/2014/ Images/People/2014/01/ Images/People/2014/01/03-Heidi/{ RAW JPG thumbs } Images/People/2014/01/13-Hanna/{ RAW JPG thumbs } ..On that basis I just dropped a .meta file in each directory with brief notes. e.g:
name = Jasmine XXX location = Leith, Edinburgh source = modelmayhem theme = umbrella, rain, water contact = 0774xxxxxxx
Then I wrote a trivial perl script to find *.meta - allowing me to create IMAGE_123.CR2.meta too - and the job was done.
- Graphical Applications
I'm currently gluing parts of Gtk + Lua together, which is an experiment to see how hard it is to create a flexible GUI mail client. (yeah.)
So far its easy if I restrict the view to three-panes, but I'm wondering if I can defer that, and allow the user to handle the layout 100%. I suspect "not easily".
We'll see, since I'm not 100% sold on the idea of a GUI mail client in the first place. Still it is a diversion.
- Finland
I actually find myself looking forward to my next visit which is .. interesting?