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diff --git a/2023/info/unentangling-after.md b/2023/info/unentangling-after.md index 6d11c30e..f6e4924f 100644 --- a/2023/info/unentangling-after.md +++ b/2023/info/unentangling-after.md @@ -4,196 +4,268 @@ <a name="unentangling-mainVideo-transcript"></a> # Transcript (unedited) -[[!template text="""Hello, I'm Alexey Bochkarev, and I'm talking about""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""unentangling projects and repositories,""" start="00:00:04.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""or maybe entangling them, depending on how you look at that.""" start="00:00:07.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""So that's going to be a short workflow note.""" start="00:00:12.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""I work as a researcher,""" start="00:00:15.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""so there are three main components to my work, I guess.""" start="00:00:19.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""First, I think, so I try to come up with new ideas,""" start="00:00:23.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""and that usually results in some collection of notes I have.""" start="00:00:27.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""Second, I try things out, so it usually means that I write code.""" start="00:00:31.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""And third, I communicate, so I prepare papers,""" start="00:00:35.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""presentations, memos, and so on and so forth.""" start="00:00:39.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""And so the workflow problem I had is""" start="00:00:43.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""sometimes all this does not really fit""" start="00:00:47.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""into a concept of a single repository per project,""" start="00:00:51.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""so I might want to have, for example,""" start="00:00:55.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""a source code in one repository, and then I would like to have a paper""" start="00:00:59.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""in another one, and then I want to have a collection of notes somewhere""" start="00:01:03.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""unrelated to those two. And yeah,""" start="00:01:07.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""Emacs is pretty good at supporting your workflows, and I figured I should""" start="00:01:11.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""share what I use and what works for me.""" start="00:01:15.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""So,""" start="00:01:19.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""from the technical perspective, things are""" start="00:01:23.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""pretty easy, so I use a collection of pretty standard components""" start="00:01:27.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""of Emacs, so it's a projectile org-mode with its capture templates and other""" start="00:01:31.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""things. Then I sustain a collection of notes in something""" start="00:01:35.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""that is called org-roam, which is, well, essentially, it's a glorified""" start="00:01:39.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""collection of org-mode files. Then I use directory""" start="00:01:43.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""local variables, maybe a ctext to jump through the source code,""" start="00:01:47.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""and very, very little Elisp glue to make this""" start="00:01:51.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""all work, but that's not really rocket science.""" start="00:01:55.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""So that's the workflow I would like to talk about today.""" start="00:01:59.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""So, what I mean by all that,""" start="00:02:03.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""it's pretty straightforward to make""" start="00:02:07.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""it easy to jump around a single repository in Emacs.""" start="00:02:11.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""Now, I have Doom Emacs, but that's not really specific to Doom.""" start="00:02:15.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""That'll work in any Emacs configuration.""" start="00:02:19.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""Well, kbindings might be""" start="00:02:23.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""different, but that's not the point, I guess, for the workflow. So, if I hit space""" start="00:02:27.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""two times, I have all the list of files within my project.""" start="00:02:31.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""So, if I create a couple of custom shortcuts,""" start="00:02:35.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""so if I press a magic button,""" start="00:02:39.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""hyperlp, don't worry about hyperkey, so I want it to have a""" start="00:02:43.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""modifier key all to myself, so that would, no program""" start="00:02:47.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""on my computer would use that except Emacs, and Emacs would""" start="00:02:51.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""use that only when I tell it to, so I have a hyperkey instead of caps lock, that's pretty easy""" start="00:02:55.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""to do in GNU Linux system. So,""" start="00:02:59.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""when I press this magic keys, I have a menu that's a normal""" start="00:03:03.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""kbinding, yeah, essentially in Emacs, and""" start="00:03:07.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""if I hit, for example, R, I end up in a readme file within""" start="00:03:11.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""this specific repository I was sitting in, right, so if I want to document something""" start="00:03:15.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""real quick, I go to the readme file. Then I could have, I could""" start="00:03:19.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""go to a changelog file, right, so I have a list of changes""" start="00:03:23.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""and the way it works, usually, for example, if I'm working on some code,""" start="00:03:27.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""I created a couple of dummy files in there, so""" start="00:03:31.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""I'm working on some code, and then I implemented something, and I can""" start="00:03:35.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""just use the org mode capture""" start="00:03:39.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""mechanisms to keep track of what""" start="00:03:43.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""I want to discuss with colleagues next time, for example, I could just hit""" start="00:03:47.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""capture repo specific changelog entry""" start="00:03:51.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""and I implemented a feature""" start="00:03:55.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""and I can continue working""" start="00:03:59.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""without this context switching, and then if I want to go to the changelog,""" start="00:04:03.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""well, it is there, and next time I talk""" start="00:04:07.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template text="""to the colleagues about the source code, I can open the changelog and go through entries one by one""" start="00:04:11.000" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] -[[!template 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And this is what is really""" start="00:12:26.260" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""important, I believe. So thank you very much.""" start="00:12:28.420" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""And if you have any comments or suggestions""" start="00:12:31.400" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""to that, please do jump into the discussion.""" start="00:12:33.320" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] +[[!template text="""Yeah, after the talk, thank you.""" start="00:12:37.120" video="mainVideo-unentangling" id="subtitle"]] Questions or comments? Please e-mail [emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org](mailto:emacsconf-org-private@gnu.org?subject=Comment%20for%20EmacsConf%202023%20unentangling%3A%20%28Un%29entangling%20projects%20and%20repos) |