#elisp

This elisp function in emacs lets me retrieve conversations from tumblr! The api doesn't have any documentation about /conversations.

The sid cookie was edited of course. I don't want my private conversations to show up here.

(let ((url-request-method "GET") (url-request-extra-headers `(("authorization" . "bearer") ("cookie" . "sid=aWX8ldphBKnKvrnStFz0jHRttkdfmvNhlfKHJnrdyxgl.a"))) (url-request-data "fields%5Bblogs%5D=avatar%2Cname%2Cseconds_since_last_activity%2Curl%2Cblog_view_url%2Cuuid%2Ctheme%2Cdescription_npf%2Cis_adult%2C%3Fprimary&participant=t%3Y-T8aKdASPs_51V8TQ")) (with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://www.tumblr.com/api/v2/conversations") (buffer-string)))

Yes, i program for fun and efficiency. im addicted to Emacs, so elisp is sort of my default language at the moment. I keep trying to get into Common Lisp, and if i got a chance to sit down with StumpWM again that would be great.

I'm also quite fond of PowerShell. Imo it's about as close to lisp as you can get with sh-like syntax, and on windows it's completely overpowered (iv written briefly about this a while back, search my #powershell tag).

I get several chapters into a tutorial. It's a beautiful, wonderful tutorial. I am bored since everything is as I expect. I look at the table of context. I'm on chapter 5 and namespace/package are in chapter 22.

Use GNU Emacs - The Plain Text Computing Environment (With a number of lovely quotes at the beginning:

Using Emacs is kind of like making a piece of art. You start with a big block and you slowly chip away, bringing it closer and closer to what you want. —Mary Rose Cook

[Emacs is] a Lisp Machine with several compatible user interface modalities. Which is just amazingly helpful to [blind] people like me […] who are typically forgotten about these days. […] Emacs is a shining beacon in a dark age of canvases and decorative user interface design. —Mario Lang

It wouldn’t make sense to start out with anything other than Emacs. I don’t think there has been a piece of software which has had a larger impact on my life. I began using this about fifteen years ago, and it has followed me across operating systems, jobs, roles (I used it to manage my teams), languages, and needs. Every time I start something new, Emacs has been there to make it just a little easier, and the more I do in it, the easier everything gets. I believe this power comes from Emacs being the closest thing we have to a working Lisp Machine. —Katherine Cox-Buday

Emacs outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way that the noonday sun does the stars. It is not just bigger and brighter; it simply makes everything else vanish. —Neal Stephenson

Emacs is the King of Editors because it’s a Lisp interpreter. Each and every key you tap runs some Emacs Lisp code snippet, and since Emacs Lisp is an interpreted language, that means that you can configure any key to run any arbitrary code. You just, like, do it. —Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

I’m using Linux. A library that Emacs uses to communicate with Intel hardware. —Erwin, #emacs, Freenode

OSs and GUIs come and go, only Emacs has lasting power. —Per Abrahamsen