Speaking only for myself, my passion projects and so on, (and in no way for any business stallholders, technology partners, or vendors with whom I may have had the honor to work over my varied professional life), the goals of a technology project on which we seriously focus attention will tend to "wiggle", vacillating about the available surface of user experience and maintainer ingenuity to the extent we don't go to lengths to, as it were, limit debate. Iterative development is, in a sense, intended to run with this problem more than to prevent it, especially with practice such as user experience testing that may involve end-users in early phases of development before a software project is bug free, perhaps working from prototypes and mock-ups thus before anything works.

TL;DR This "literate" post generates a shell script to make a new Emacs 29 and get it ready to publish.

The program the post generates, although simple, is actually kinda sweet.

It doesn't rebuild Emacs unless there have been changes upstream since the last successful build. It doesn't require any special caches or data-files. It also has some limited resume capabilities, in that it can skip completed steps along the way, to continue on a later failing bit without repeating earlier things that worked fine. It stores output in an "install" folder. Each sub-folder under install contains a ready-to-run version of Emacs 29, filed by git short revision ID. It also creates an "upload" folder. Sub-folders under upload have you need to upload Very Nearly Official™ versions of GNU Emacs (assuming you've got your authorization and credentials and such setup with FSF/GNU).

Dungeon is a role-playing game I learned as a kid. It features uncomplicated mechanics and a potentially infinite flexibility for dungeon masters to due rude and innovated things to player characters. As of late 2019 I'm working with friends and comrades to create a game engine for Emacs, along with a sample game testing, at long last, the theory that technology has evoloved to the point where this game could be more fun to play using computers – a point hotly debated across decades, perhaps generations.

As of Jan, 2024, I'm most often executing this "one-liner" version:

  c:\\hugo\\hugo.exe -s d:/projects/bla/corwin.bru.st/ && pscp -r d:/projects/bla/corwin.bru.st/public/* dh_aw28jd@corwin.bru.st:/home/dh_aw28jd/corwin-emacs

Hopefully after using this one, which puts it on a local test server:

I'm Corwin, he/him, 5 kids, it's complicated. I'm a 20 year information technology professional, which has me currently supporting financial services digital and interactive marketing in terms of information security/compliance and data services intersections. By day I spend a fair amount of time in Microsoft Visio but I also use Emacs. At home I use Emacs a lot.

Our firm allows us to bring our own text editor, and I was able to request get Emacs 26 packaged for simple install by myself and colleagues, thanks for 26.3 to Artem Boldariev's MSI Installer and for 27.0.50 to an interested teammate working the packaging requests who spent some time getting each GUI mode DLL past one and another desktop safeguards, employed to protect Employee used Windows laptops, like mine. (In fact, I've had some related problems with my laptop this past year, but that will have to be a separate post.)

The system will start Chad automatically when entering a multi-user run-level.

• -f --foreground stay in the foreground
• -s --single-user disable individual chadtabs for each user

Unless started with the s or single-user option, Chad searches its spool area (/var/spool/chad/chadtabs, by default) for chadtab files (which are named after the accounts in /etc/passwd); valid chadtabs found loaded into memory. The chadtabs in this directory should not be directly accessible by users - the chadtab command should be used to access and update them.