The full circle of dogfooding

Published 2025-12-17

tag(s): #meta #useless-facts #emacs #programming

Earlier today, I was sort of paying attention[1] to one of those "global meetings" that organizations of a certain size seem to be fond of, and I decided to write an Emacs command to quickly add a link to my Stack of Links.

About two hours later (and yes I was in another group meeting) I was like, "hey, I can use my (also newish) command to send a region to Peanut Butter to create a paste with all this code!"[2]. The idea being, I can revisit it later to make it nicer.

So I created the paste, and then I was like "I guess I better add it to my stack, so I don't forget about it...", and for this I used the new command too, so I went full circle with all the tools 🤣

Screenshot of the stack of links website.
(direct link to image)

I used two Emacs commands I wrote, to create a paste and save a link for later in a site I wrote too.
It is amusingly silly.

Footnotes
  1. Not really.
  2. "Region" is what lesser editors call "selection". Which are these lesser editors? All of them 🤡

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