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# Watering my (digital) plant with Emacs timers
Christopher Howard (he/him) - IRC: lispmacs, http://gem.librehacker.com, <mailto:christopher@librehacker.com>

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This talk gives a brief introduction to Emacs timer functionality. I explain how I used Emacs timers to water and harvest my flower on the gemini Astrobotany service.

About the speaker:

Christopher Howard is a simulator technican and free software ethusiast living in Fairbanks, Alaska. Christopher explains how he uses Emacs timers to automatically water and harvest his flower on the Astrobotany gemini service.

See also these other talks by the same speaker:

- [EmacsConf - 2024 - talks - Emacs as a Shell](https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/shell/) 
- [EmacsConf - 2023 - talks - Org-Mode Workflow: Informal Reference Tracking](https://emacsconf.org/2023/talks/ref/)

# Discussion

-   \<lounge-502\> Not exactly a browser but after yesterday\'s Emacs
    timer talk, I installed elpher and browsed around some gemini
    websites and that was a really good experience.

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