Sven Seebeck

Sven Seebeck

I'm Sven - father, husband, musician with a thing for blogging and writing and routinely tinker too much.

Emacs find of the day: M-X

I was supposed to do some actual work, but rather chose to set up a custom-key-map, as one does as it is weekend. In the process I learned about a hither unknown command to me, tied to M-X. And yes, it's the upper-case X. The key-binding is tied to the

A small, but useful org-agenda tweak

For the longest time it bothered me, that jumping from a task in the agenda to the entry in my todo.org file, always shows me the todo in context with all other task around it. I only want to see THE task and not all the other tasks further up and

Musescore AppImage sound issues on Fedora 39

I was just about to start writing an arrangement in Musescore 4.2 when sound-output stopped working in the application, thus rendering all attempts of getting some work done in vain. It doesn't need mentioning, but starting to work on a Sunday morning before 7 o'clock implies a

Weeknotes 2024 #3

Whoa, again the weeks fly by and I guess that I am again way behind my own schedule (no I have no expectation that anyone waits for these posts to drop, but still) so let's just jump right in. The Blog I had been thinking a bit about my usage

Weeknotes 2024 #2

The vacation is over and the first week had been as busy as usual. In fact, in hindsight it doesn't even feel like a week - more like a month's worth of stuff and vacation is nothing but a distant memory. But enough of that, here are some

Weeknotes 2024-01

New year, new blog, and time for a long overdue update. Let’s start with the blog (there is nothing more meta as writing about the blog on the blog, but still…) The Blog My blogging activity had been rather limited during the last year during the last year and I had

The Books I Read in 2023

For some reason the year 2023 hasn't been the best year for reading and it took me quite some time to get started and get into the flow. Eventually I managed, but it took some took some time. That being said I managed to finish some books at the least.