Stevey's Tech Talk E39 -- A guided tour of Emacs

Hey folks! This week I turned on the ol' screen capture and recorded myself puttering around in Emacs. In this video, I manage to show off roughly 12 features of Emacs, out of approximately 18 billion hillion jillion total.

Somewhat ironically, when I started recording this, my Emacs suddenly crashed and absolutely refused to restart with crashing. I spent hours upgrading my OS and software packages, rebuilding Emacs, and then before I'd quite finished, Emacs suddenly started working again. (I think it was missing some XCode library that had gone missing.)

Then after that fiasco, I recorded the entire episode with OBS, over an hour, only to discover that it was only capturing a small slice of my desktop, and you could only see the upper-left corner of my Emacs session. So I had to record it all over again, and then do 2 hours of editing. This was an 8-hour day rather than the usual 3. But at least I can do screenshares now.

Please let me know if you liked or disliked this material, either way. I'm still figuring out how to "bend" the channel content until it finds the right audience. I'm not sure whether to go more technical, or continue with high-level stuff like leadership, politics, and execution. Your feedback is welcome.

Apologies to those of you who normally listen to this as a podcast. I did my best to narrate everything as I went.

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