WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.039 ... Org mode and kind of note taking. And that meant that it wasn't 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:10.679 too difficult to get started with. But when I started more on 00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:14.959 the coding side, because I'm a software engineer, you know, 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:20.679 on the day job. That kind of got me to think that the colors and 00:00:20.680 --> 00:00:26.479 how themes look, how Emacs looks, was affecting. And that's 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.719 how it kind of came to picture. So I could have kind of gone 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:34.919 into a little bit more coding side of things, but I didn't 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.319 want to stress too much on the talk. So that's why I kind of 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:43.439 stuck to a very small bits of Org Mode and Elisp. And yeah, I 00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:48.159 think that's how it came about. Yeah, but that's perfectly 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.119 fine. That's one of the chief reasons why we have two tracks 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:54.799 for Emacs content. We've had those for the last four years, I 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:57.279 think. It's because we have a general track, which is more 00:00:57.280 --> 00:00:59.239 geared towards people who want a general... well, 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:01.799 generally people who are highly interested into org mode 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:03.999 and not necessarily into coding, but just to whet their 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:08.399 appetite to what can be done. And on the DevTrack, we have, 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:11.519 well, this year we have talked about Rust and about other 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:13.559 fancy things that people can do with Emacs. But, you know, 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:15.559 I'm also a software engineer, you know, we do this all the 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:18.079 time. Sometimes it's just fine to just chat about colors and 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:20.959 just the results of what we develop rather than how the 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:24.839 sausage is made. So that's completely fine too. I'm not sure NOTE Why colour? 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:28.879 if you mentioned it in your presentation, but why color, out 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:31.479 of all the things you could be ricing on your setup, why were 00:01:31.480 --> 00:01:37.559 you so interested about colors? I think it was just that 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.239 mainly that I had to do a lot of context switch between 00:01:40.240 --> 00:01:44.119 different languages. Elisp is not the one because Elisp is 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:48.079 something that I would do for Emacs editing. But for day job, 00:01:48.080 --> 00:01:52.999 I had to use mainly Go as I work with Kubernetes quite a bit. So 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.119 Go and also web languages like TypeScript, JavaScript, you 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:01.519 know, those languages, where I felt that whenever I was 00:02:01.520 --> 00:02:05.359 switching context to a different language, I felt that it's 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:08.839 kind of annoying to see all the different colors in 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.999 languages like TypeScript, where, you know, VS Code way 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.799 would be very full of colors. which I felt that, okay, like, 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:18.759 why do I have to have that many different colors on let and 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:23.759 constant or the keywords where it could be just a white text? 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:27.679 It didn't have to be that colorful. So that was the bit, the 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:31.399 most annoying bit when it came to context switching. And I 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:34.759 felt that that just didn't happen in the Org Mode or writing 00:02:34.760 --> 00:02:40.799 in general. So I had to find a way to make it work, make more 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:46.199 coding make my coding more kind of friendly to me and that's 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:50.039 when I thought maybe just the colors are something that's 00:02:50.040 --> 00:02:54.039 bothering me and it actually was the case and that's how I got 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:59.359 to more into the color kind of journey and got too much into it 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.039 I guess. Right, and was it what eventually motivated you to NOTE What motivated you to learn Elisp and get into the Emacs core? 00:03:04.040 --> 00:03:06.999 learn Elisp and to get into the Emacs core? Because it's 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.399 funny how you find plenty of people using Emacs in Org Mode 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.399 and then they find something that they take particular 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:15.039 issue with, for you it's the color, and then they just go all 00:03:15.040 --> 00:03:18.039 in trying to pull the rope as far as they can to try to 00:03:18.040 --> 00:03:21.359 understand as much as possible about what code is managing 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.879 this part of the application. Like for you it was color, for 00:03:23.880 --> 00:03:27.999 me it was the org agenda, I desperately wanted to make Org 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.439 Agenda do something that it wasn't able to do. And five 00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:35.199 years, well, actually, no, 10 years later, I find myself 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:38.199 hosting Emacs Cons. So, you never know just how far you're 00:03:38.200 --> 00:03:40.399 going to be pulling this rope. So, it's really interesting 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.679 for me that my call was this. But back to the question, is this 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:47.759 what eventually motivated you to get into Elisp and the core 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:53.439 of Emacs? I think that the original journey to move to Emacs 00:03:53.440 --> 00:03:56.959 was around keybindings that I got annoyed with with other 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.839 solutions, not just, you know, not speaking of Emacs 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:02.879 keybinding or anything, like anything in general. The main 00:04:02.880 --> 00:04:07.519 reason was that I used Dovrak keyboard layout, and that 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:10.799 meant that all the C-c, C-v, C-p, whatever, It just is 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.919 all over the place. So I had to find something that could work 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:17.039 for me. And Emacs was a solution that allowed me to do 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.479 anything. And that's the kind of the journey that it 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:24.039 originally started. And from there, started tweaking org 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:28.439 mode and writing experience to be tuned to my liking. Color 00:04:28.440 --> 00:04:32.559 was another thing that I thought, OK, maybe I could do it 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:36.239 easily with org mode. And when I started to use more of the 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.799 coding side of things on Emacs, I felt that, okay, that was 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:45.159 something I needed to solve. So Elisp was always kind of 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.439 just a toolkit that, you know, I knew that it was available. I 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:52.199 knew that it would be something that I want to be able to use. 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:57.159 So I think in a way color was a good segue to understand how I 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:03.359 can kind of work out more of a complex logic with the editor 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:06.359 without having to write JavaScript or things that I don't 00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:09.399 particularly like. So yeah, I think the journey around the 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:11.879 functional languages, functional kind of programming was 00:05:11.880 --> 00:05:15.439 always something that I was keen about. And yeah, the whole 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:18.479 journey kind of made sense for me. And then moving on to the 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.999 color was just one way to get more involved in. So I can 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:26.279 totally see that this journey kind of making to a little bit 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:30.759 different angle But yeah, we shall see how that really turns 00:05:30.760 --> 00:05:33.799 out. But for now, I think I'm happy with the color setup. Now I 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.599 can really focus on the coding. Well, that's all good. And 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.839 I'm sure plenty of people listening to you now, you know, 00:05:40.840 --> 00:05:43.639 find this relatable, how they eventually got into 00:05:43.640 --> 00:05:46.879 programming. Like for you, you did say that you were a 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:50.519 software engineer now. But I found plenty of people, 00:05:50.520 --> 00:05:54.679 especially doing workshops, that just started you know, 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.639 their software engineering journey just with Emacs and 00:05:57.640 --> 00:05:59.239 they just realized they were doing something completely 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.999 different, like I was studying humanities. But then you 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:05.079 touch Emacs and you realize, yeah, this whole programming 00:06:05.080 --> 00:06:06.679 shtick is actually pretty damn cool. 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:09.079 And then you find yourself again, 00:06:09.080 --> 00:06:10.999 five to 10 years later, becoming a software 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:12.999 engineer. So yeah, that's all good. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:13.919 So we do have a couple of 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:18.439 questions and I'd like to move into them so that I, I mean, 00:06:18.440 --> 00:06:22.399 people have questions and for me it's okay for me to chat with 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:25.119 you but obviously it's better if people ask you the question 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:27.639 themselves. And again, if you want to ask questions to Ryota 00:06:27.640 --> 00:06:31.039 directly, feel free to join us on BBB and whenever we're done 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.519 with the questions on the pad, I'm more than happy 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:35.319 to let you ask your questions live. NOTE Q: Is there any intention to create a library for working with more experimental color spaces? Pulling code out of Hasliberg for this purpose, perhaps? 00:06:35.320 --> 00:06:37.799 All right, so starting with the first question, 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:39.999 is there any intention to create a library 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:42.559 for working with more experimental color spaces, pulling 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.679 code out of Hasliberg for this purpose, perhaps? Although I 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:50.479 do not know. Hasliberg, you might? Yeah, Hasliberg. And to 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:55.119 answer the question, started the journey just for myself 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.479 and I didn't think that it would be actually useful for other 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:03.319 use cases and this conference talk just came about kind of 00:07:03.320 --> 00:07:08.079 out of sheer luck really. So the idea I think I can definitely 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:12.199 work it out and I don't think there will be too, the original 00:07:12.200 --> 00:07:17.639 code that I started with was I had to use some color space and I 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:22.479 started with sRGB and then went to HSL and then went to LCH. So 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:25.479 I think there has been quite a bit that I learned from it. At 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:29.999 the same time, I may be tempted to actually maybe perhaps 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:34.159 contribute back to ct.el rather than creating my own. I 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.279 think that would make more sense perhaps. 00:07:36.280 --> 00:07:39.479 But for my own kind of taste that I thought 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.839 that it would be something I can work out in my theme, 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:46.879 but I don't have any I think, you know, making a 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:49.999 library is definitely something that I can think about, but 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.679 perhaps maybe making it too many packages isn't exactly 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:57.319 what I want. But for my own use case, I think I just wanted to 00:07:57.320 --> 00:07:59.919 have something that just didn't have any external 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.119 dependency so that I can use the vanilla Emacs with my 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:09.639 colors. I think that's how it started, but I'm definitely up 00:08:09.640 --> 00:08:13.719 for it if there is interest about it. Yeah, well, thank you 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:15.279 for this. It's always good to contribute. 00:08:15.280 --> 00:08:16.399 I'm tempted to say 00:08:16.400 --> 00:08:18.279 that's how they get you. You know, you do something really 00:08:18.280 --> 00:08:23.639 cool and you share it with people and they have the, you know, 00:08:23.640 --> 00:08:27.239 they just ask you, oh, do you have your code online? And you 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.399 realize, no, I haven't pushed it. And then they start 00:08:29.400 --> 00:08:32.359 pressing you on. well, you need to do this, this is amazing 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:35.879 and you need to share it. You know, I had plenty of people ask 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:40.519 me to share my dot files when I was tackling the org agenda 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:44.039 issue that I mentioned earlier. And yeah, eventually when 00:08:44.040 --> 00:08:47.479 you get to publishing your stuff, you also feel great 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.279 because you're putting a little bit of your intelligence 00:08:50.280 --> 00:08:53.679 into the world and it can be the start of the journey for 00:08:53.680 --> 00:08:56.239 someone else. You know, maybe someone will find your 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:58.679 library at some point and realize, yeah, I wanted to do 00:08:58.680 --> 00:09:01.239 something slightly differently. and then they either 00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:04.439 contribute to a library or they make their own but it's a 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.359 complete journey that starts with just people taking the 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:12.039 time to publish the content of the brain basically. Yeah, 00:09:12.040 --> 00:09:15.519 that's the power of open source now. It's just how we really 00:09:15.520 --> 00:09:19.119 appreciate the open source culture being cultivated 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:23.159 throughout so many years. And yeah, this is something that 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:26.999 I'm definitely keen about. So yeah, open for suggestions. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.079 And exactly, that's how I started with the journey. And 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.519 yeah, while this is very experimental and very personal, 00:09:33.520 --> 00:09:38.199 yeah, I'm not, you know, tied down to one particular way 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.399 only. So yeah we'll be open to suggestions like this one 00:09:41.400 --> 00:09:44.719 which I would definitely think about. Yeah that's amazing 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.999 and just to be clear you know this is not a there's no 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:50.639 incentive one. I'm not pushing you to publish your library. 00:09:50.640 --> 00:09:53.799 You know it was very personal for you and at the end if you 00:09:53.800 --> 00:09:56.199 believe it might be useful for others it's a nice thing to 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.799 eventually think about publishing it. But just the fact 00:09:58.800 --> 00:10:01.439 that you showed up at EmacsConf... Sorry, I'm 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:02.639 starting to lose my voice on the morning 00:10:02.640 --> 00:10:03.839 of the first day. That's 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.639 not boding well for the two next days. I mean, just one day. 00:10:07.640 --> 00:10:09.159 But just the 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:13.199 fact that you're showing up at EmacsConf and sharing about 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:17.039 all of this, the process, how you got to it eventually, it's 00:10:17.040 --> 00:10:19.639 also a part of sharing. And I think it's also amazing in its 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:26.039 own way. Absolutely. Okay, I'm going to try to read the next 00:10:26.040 --> 00:10:31.639 question and then try to cough a little bit. So can we have... 00:10:31.640 --> 00:10:36.759 Oh, sorry, Bala. Sorry. I was the one who asked the question. 00:10:36.760 --> 00:10:40.279 I thought I could ask it live here rather than... Thank you. 00:10:40.280 --> 00:10:46.039 I'll go cough a little bit. So here I am. Thanks, Ryota, for 00:10:46.040 --> 00:10:50.519 the nice talk. This is great. I loved it. Your attention to 00:10:50.520 --> 00:10:51.519 detail was awesome. NOTE Q: Can we have a dark as well as light theme variations made from your theme? 00:10:51.520 --> 00:10:54.959 So I was just looking at the code and I was 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.759 wondering, do you have a dark and a light theme variation 00:10:58.760 --> 00:11:02.599 which can be made from your theme? Or do you have to customize 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:06.199 it every time? That was my question. And thanks for that. 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.679 Thank you very much. I appreciate your feedback and 00:11:09.680 --> 00:11:15.039 questions. So to answer the question, the short answer is 00:11:15.040 --> 00:11:18.439 that I do have both dark and light themes with some sorts of 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.199 standard colors that I personally liked. And there were a 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.679 few things that I showed in the demo. where I showed, I think, 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:29.999 three different dark theme colors. So light theme is 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.559 definitely something that I can do. 00:11:31.560 --> 00:11:33.759 And the idea around Hasliberg theme 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:36.279 and just my theming in general was that 00:11:36.280 --> 00:11:39.599 when I feel like I want to work in dark theme and when I want to 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:42.159 work in the standard way, I would just use the standard color. 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:44.919 But when I feel like maybe it's just so cold that I want 00:11:44.920 --> 00:11:48.519 to have a bit of a warm colors near me, I would use the orange 00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:52.279 theme, without changing too much of the kind of general 00:11:52.280 --> 00:11:55.639 feeling and experience. So that can be said for the light 00:11:55.640 --> 00:11:58.959 theme as well. So there is something and the kind of 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:04.839 customization isn't that difficult to extend. So I do have 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:09.359 both dark and light, but primarily I'm just looking at the 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:12.839 dark theme as my main driver. But yeah, they are both 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:18.239 available. Great. Thank you so much. I will definitely try 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:21.719 your theme out. I'm definitely on the lookout for a nice, 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:26.119 friendly theme. Thank you very much. As I said, this is a 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:31.279 personal theme. I'm not sure if it really fits everyone's 00:12:31.280 --> 00:12:37.159 need, but it is one inspiration that I hope that can lead to 00:12:37.160 --> 00:12:40.639 another nice theming that could work for someone 00:12:40.640 --> 00:12:44.199 specifically for some use cases. I don't have to solve 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:48.719 everyone's problem. Yeah, and I mean, it was sufficient to 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:50.719 be inspirational to people. I mean, just Bala just 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.759 mentioned it right now, but I'm sure plenty of people who 00:12:53.760 --> 00:12:55.999 watched live, but also people will be watching in the 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.599 future, will have the interest to speak by what you've done. 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:05.079 So thank you again so much for this. Yep. All right, well, I 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:09.719 don't see any further questions. So I suggest we move 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:14.279 towards closure. Ryota, do you have any last words? No, I 00:13:14.280 --> 00:13:17.079 don't. So yeah, thank you very much for attending. And it was 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:20.519 great fun putting this together. And I really didn't think 00:13:20.520 --> 00:13:24.759 that I would be talking about my personal colors and 00:13:24.760 --> 00:13:27.759 personal favorites, like orange being my favorite color. 00:13:27.760 --> 00:13:30.119 This wouldn't be something that I would say out in any 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:34.159 conference, to be honest. But it just came out to be. And 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:37.479 happy that I had a chance. So thank you very much for giving me 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.439 the opportunity to talk. in this amazing conference and 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.319 yeah I can't just wait to check out other talks which you know 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:46.919 I know that there isn't you know other talks that are 00:13:46.920 --> 00:13:50.199 happening right now I was actually wanted to to join them and 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:52.759 check check that out so I will probably do that right now. 00:13:52.760 --> 00:13:56.839 Well, sure. Well, I won't hold you any longer then. Thank 00:13:56.840 --> 00:13:59.759 you. For me, it was just amazing to, you know, generally when 00:13:59.760 --> 00:14:01.639 you ask someone what their favorite color, you know, they 00:14:01.640 --> 00:14:04.399 just tell you orange or blue or whatever. They don't go then 00:14:04.400 --> 00:14:07.039 to chat about 20 minutes about their favorite color and how 00:14:07.040 --> 00:14:10.079 they tuned their entire editor to work exactly around their 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:14.759 favorite colors. So it was inspiring. And I also want to try 00:14:14.760 --> 00:14:17.999 it out, frankly, because my theme has been utterly bad for 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.639 the last five years and I need some change into my life. All 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:24.319 right. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much, 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:30.640 everyone. Cheers. Bye-bye.