From b3e1afe2290e29c81c54e1821dd192eef663a591 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SqrtMinusOne Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 23:59:08 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] feat(emacs): some text --- content/posts/2023-04-14-emacs.md | 91 ++++++++++++++++-- org/2023-04-14-emacs.org | 95 +++++++++++++++++-- .../2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json | 33 +++++++ static/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js | 85 ++++++++++++++++- 4 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json diff --git a/content/posts/2023-04-14-emacs.md b/content/posts/2023-04-14-emacs.md index ca2ba24..59455a9 100644 --- a/content/posts/2023-04-14-emacs.md +++ b/content/posts/2023-04-14-emacs.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ +++ -title = "Charts test" +title = "900 days of Emacs" author = ["Pavel Korytov"] date = 2023-02-02 tags = ["emacs"] @@ -7,12 +7,91 @@ draft = true scripts = ["/js/chart.js", "/js/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js", "/js/chartjs-plugin-datalabels.js", "/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js"] +++ -Hello world + + +> Poof I made my free-time disappear + +

- Ellis Kenyő, on being called an "elisp mage" + +Little did I know when on the fateful day of **[2020-10-09 Fri]** I had installed [GNU Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/). I wasn't thinking about the [ethical aspects](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html) of free software, [aesthetics of Lisp](https://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/44), or these other things with which an occasional layperson explains to him or herself how an almost [half a century old](https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html) program can still be in [active use](https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/survey/). + +In fact, when considering using software X for anything, the most important question to me was: can X provide a better user experience? For Emacs, the answer to most of these questions turned out to be yes. + +So, over that time, Emacs has become my programming environment, email client, window manager, knowledge base [and a lot more](https://sqrtminusone.xyz/configs/emacs/). I think I ended up using Emacs for almost as many things as possible; I have even authored a few packages that implement certain parts of my workflows that weren't readily available. + +Among other things, the Emacs community is responsible for my introduction to [Zettelkasten](https://zettelkasten.de/), RSS, Lisps... Perhaps even my English became slightly less broken because Emacs is so text-centered. Indeed, a lot has changed over the course of these short 2.5 years. + +Anyway, I am writing this document because I happen to have a lot of data about how I use Emacs, mostly from projects called [ActivityWatch](https://activitywatch.net/) and [WakaTime](https://wakatime.com/). So, primarily I am curious myself --- how much time did all of that actually take? + +Also, every now and then I see Emacs people discussing their journeys through the Elisp-land, or a potential newcomer wondering whether this rabbit hole is worth investigating. If this applies to you, then you might find something interesting in the structure of my effort. + + + + +## Everything goes into Emacs {#everything-goes-into-emacs} + +It makes sense to begin with the evolution of the place of Emacs in my PC usage. Fig. 1 shows that as a Gantt chart. + + + +As you can see, I used Neovim for a bit more than a year. We'll get into some numbers on that later. + +And it took me about 13 months to move from knowing nothing about Emacs to using EXWM. + +Fig. 2 shows the dynamics of the direct screen time ratio spent in Emacs per each month, i.e. how many non-AFK seconds the Emacs window was active on average. + + + +It's hard to distinguish any general trend here. It seems like the ratio started at 0.2 in October 2020, was oscillating around 0.3 for about 7 months, then moved closer to 0.4 until January 2023, after which jumped to 0.45-0.5. + +The three peaks in September 2021 (0.526), January 2022 (0.532) and August 2022 (0.568) may match my vacations, in which I didn't have to spend time in Chrome DevTools (I do web development as my "main" job), but I'm not sure about that. + +The jump is January 2023 definitely matches my adoption of [telega.el](https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el) instead of the official desktop client. The time redistributes rather cleanly in the detailed ActivityWatch data. + +It's also interesting that switch from [i3](https://i3wm.org/) to [EXWM](https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm) didn't seem to have any particularly distinguishable effects. + +The mean Emacs screen time ratios are 0.39 since October 2020 and 0.47 since January 2023. So... that's a lot. + + +## Time spent in Emacs {#time-spent-in-emacs} + +Now let's turn to the structure of time spent in Emacs. Fig. 3 shows how many Emacs-hours per month I spent on what, Fig. 4 shows the same in the stacked form. + +Contrary to Fig. 2, the time here is calculated with a 15-minute timeout preference, like [it's done in WakaTime](https://wakatime.com/faq#timeout). For instance, if I do something in a project in Emacs for 10 minutes, then switch to something else for 10 minutes (i.e. no [heartbeats](https://wakatime.com/developers/#heartbeats) in that time), then switch back to the project for 10 more minutes, this will be accounted as 30 minutes in that project. + +This is mostly so because that's the default format of the [WakaTime export](https://wakatime.com/faq#exporting), but I also think that's reasonable, because I may open package documentation during configuration, experiment in scratch buffers while working on a package, etc. This time really has to be included in the final tally. + +Of course, this will also include all the times I was distracted to the [System Crafters](https://wiki.systemcrafters.net/community/chat-with-us/) Discord server, [emacs.ch](https://emacs.ch/) (a Mastodon instance), or whatever else. So treat the numbers below as an upper bound. + + + + + +The categories are as follows: + +- **Config** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time)
+ Time spent on the actual Emacs configuration. +- **Emacs Packages** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time)
+ Time spent in other Emacs Lisp files, i.e. writing my packages or debugging other packages. See the packages section. +- **Org Mode** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time)
+ Time spent in my `org-mode` project, which is mostly [org-journal](https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal), [org-roam](https://www.orgroam.com/) and project management. By the way, guess the month in which I read [Sönke Ahrens' book](https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes) about Zettelkasten. +- **sqrtminusone.xyz** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time)
+ Time spent doing something with this strage website. +- **Other Code** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time)
+ Doing something marginally useful in Emacs, which is mostly work, education and a few personal projects that aren't related to Emacs. +- **Misc** ([REDACTED] total hours, [REDACTED]% of all time) + Time spent in Emacs but not in an actual project (i.e. accounted by ActivityWatch but not WakaTime). These are things like reading RSS, writing emails, using messengers, doing some idle experimentation in scratch buffers, etc. ## Numbers {#numbers} -- Total time on Config: [REDACTED] +- Total time on Config: - Total time on Packages: [REDACTED] - % time on Config: [REDACTED] - Hours on `org-journal-tags`: [REDACTED] @@ -21,12 +100,6 @@ Hello world ## Charts {#charts} - - - - - - diff --git a/org/2023-04-14-emacs.org b/org/2023-04-14-emacs.org index c776b68..eca90e4 100644 --- a/org/2023-04-14-emacs.org +++ b/org/2023-04-14-emacs.org @@ -1,26 +1,79 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: posts #+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ../ -#+TITLE: Charts test +#+TITLE: 900 days of Emacs #+DATE: 2023-02-02 #+HUGO_TAGS: emacs #+HUGO_DRAFT: true #+HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: :scripts '("/js/chart.js" "/js/chartjs-adapter-date-fns.bundle.min.js" "/js/chartjs-plugin-datalabels.js" "/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js") -Hello world +#+begin_export html + +#+end_export -* Numbers -- Total time on Config: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ -- Total time on Packages: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ -- % time on Config: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ -- Hours on =org-journal-tags=: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ -- Total time on Vim config: 39 hours +#+begin_quote +Poof I made my free-time disappear +#+end_quote -* Charts +@@html:

- Ellis Kenyő, on being called an "elisp mage"@@ + +Little did I know when on the fateful day of *[2020-10-09 Fri]* I had installed [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/][GNU Emacs]]. I wasn't thinking about the [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html][ethical aspects]] of free software, [[https://www.webofstories.com/play/marvin.minsky/44][aesthetics of Lisp]], or these other things with which an occasional layperson explains to him or herself how an almost [[https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html][half a century old]] program can still be in [[https://emacsconf.org/2022/talks/survey/][active use]]. + +In fact, when considering using software X for anything, the most important question to me was: can X provide a better user experience? For Emacs, the answer to most of these questions turned out to be yes. + +So, over that time, Emacs has become my programming environment, email client, window manager, knowledge base [[https://sqrtminusone.xyz/configs/emacs/][and a lot more]]. I think I ended up using Emacs for almost as many things as possible; I have even authored a few packages that implement certain parts of my workflows that weren't readily available. + +Among other things, the Emacs community is responsible for my introduction to [[https://zettelkasten.de/][Zettelkasten]], RSS, Lisps... Perhaps even my English became slightly less broken because Emacs is so text-centered. Indeed, a lot has changed over the course of these short 2.5 years. + +Anyway, I am writing this document because I happen to have a lot of data about how I use Emacs, mostly from projects called [[https://activitywatch.net/][ActivityWatch]] and [[https://wakatime.com/][WakaTime]]. So, primarily I am curious myself --- how much time did all of that actually take? + +Also, every now and then I see Emacs people discussing their journeys through the Elisp-land, or a potential newcomer wondering whether this rabbit hole is worth investigating. If this applies to you, then you might find something interesting in the structure of my effort. + +#+begin_export html + +#+end_export + +* Everything goes into Emacs +It makes sense to begin with the evolution of the place of Emacs in my PC usage. Fig. 1 shows that as a Gantt chart. #+begin_export html #+end_export +As you can see, I used Neovim for a bit more than a year. We'll get into some numbers on that later. + +And it took me about 13 months to move from knowing nothing about Emacs to using EXWM. + +Fig. 2 shows the dynamics of the direct screen time ratio spent in Emacs per each month, i.e. how many non-AFK seconds the Emacs window was active on average. + +#+begin_export html + +#+end_export + +It's hard to distinguish any general trend here. It seems like the ratio started at 0.2 in October 2020, was oscillating around 0.3 for about 7 months, then moved closer to 0.4 until January 2023, after which jumped to 0.45-0.5. + +The three peaks in September 2021 (0.526), January 2022 (0.532) and August 2022 (0.568) may match my vacations, in which I didn't have to spend time in Chrome DevTools (I do web development as my "main" job), but I'm not sure about that. + +The jump is January 2023 definitely matches my adoption of [[https://github.com/zevlg/telega.el][telega.el]] instead of the official desktop client. The time redistributes rather cleanly in the detailed ActivityWatch data. + +It's also interesting that switch from [[https://i3wm.org/][i3]] to [[https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm][EXWM]] didn't seem to have any particularly distinguishable effects. + +The mean Emacs screen time ratios are 0.39 since October 2020 and 0.47 since January 2023. So... that's a lot. + +* Time spent in Emacs +Now let's turn to the structure of time spent in Emacs. Fig. 3 shows how many Emacs-hours per month I spent on what, Fig. 4 shows the same in the stacked form. + +Contrary to Fig. 2, the time here is calculated with a 15-minute timeout preference, like [[https://wakatime.com/faq#timeout][it's done in WakaTime]]. For instance, if I do something in a project in Emacs for 10 minutes, then switch to something else for 10 minutes (i.e. no [[https://wakatime.com/developers/#heartbeats][heartbeats]] in that time), then switch back to the project for 10 more minutes, this will be accounted as 30 minutes in that project. + +This is mostly so because that's the default format of the [[https://wakatime.com/faq#exporting][WakaTime export]], but I also think that's reasonable, because I may open package documentation during configuration, experiment in scratch buffers while working on a package, etc. This time really has to be included in the final tally. + +Of course, this will also include all the times I was distracted to the [[https://wiki.systemcrafters.net/community/chat-with-us/][System Crafters]] Discord server, [[https://emacs.ch/][emacs.ch]] (a Mastodon instance), or whatever else. So treat the numbers below as an upper bound. + #+begin_export html #+end_export @@ -29,6 +82,30 @@ Hello world #+end_export +The categories are as follows: + +- *Config* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time)\\ + Time spent on the actual Emacs configuration. +- *Emacs Packages* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time)\\ + Time spent in other Emacs Lisp files, i.e. writing my packages or debugging other packages. See the packages section. +- *Org Mode* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time)\\ + Time spent in my =org-mode= project, which is mostly [[https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal][org-journal]], [[https://www.orgroam.com/][org-roam]] and project management. By the way, guess the month in which I read [[https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes][Sönke Ahrens' book]] about Zettelkasten. +- *sqrtminusone.xyz* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time)\\ + Time spent doing something with this strage website. +- *Other Code* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time)\\ + Doing something marginally useful in Emacs, which is mostly work, education and a few personal projects that aren't related to Emacs. +- *Misc* (@@html:[REDACTED]@@ total hours, @@html:[REDACTED]@@% of all time) + Time spent in Emacs but not in an actual project (i.e. accounted by the [[https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-watcher-window][window watcher]] of ActivityWatch but not WakaTime, which watches for projects). These are things like reading RSS, writing emails, using messengers, doing some idle experimentation in scratch buffers, etc. + +* Numbers +- Total time on Config: +- Total time on Packages: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ +- % time on Config: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ +- Hours on =org-journal-tags=: @@html:[REDACTED]@@ +- Total time on Vim config: 39 hours + +* Charts + #+begin_export html #+end_export diff --git a/static/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json b/static/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d1ba4f --- /dev/null +++ b/static/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +[ +{"date_trunc":"2020-10-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.20421706158872063}, +{"date_trunc":"2020-11-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.2656396332934231}, +{"date_trunc":"2020-12-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.328156158373562}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-01-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.30293494692052564}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-02-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.29825278394208066}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-03-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.24318066017980156}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-04-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3774396720741769}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-05-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.2907218886830386}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-06-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.37853346779023606}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-07-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3451648046146705}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-08-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.5261220707445486}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-09-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.4095219799672908}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-10-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3562719759085607}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-11-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3946809530892407}, +{"date_trunc":"2021-12-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.46327503042546997}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.5318326577174478}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-02-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.4358549401255391}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-03-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.41948172412528684}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-04-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.4430246367606649}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-05-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.39880827117107315}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-06-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.39962422579568685}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-07-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3741313993218909}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-08-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.5678526580569381}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-09-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3912379067398905}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-10-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3807843143331747}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-11-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.36358283951988357}, +{"date_trunc":"2022-12-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.3664672426322652}, +{"date_trunc":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.5015832592260838}, +{"date_trunc":"2023-02-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.48874221007685836}, +{"date_trunc":"2023-03-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.43940966116785446}, +{"date_trunc":"2023-04-01T00:00:00Z","percent":0.44787489198857766} +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/static/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js b/static/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js index 98c0a3f..7f8974e 100644 --- a/static/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js +++ b/static/js/2023-04-14-emacs.js @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ const EMACS_DATA = { "Passwords", "Multimedia", "WM", + "Messenger", ], datasets: [ { @@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ const EMACS_DATA = { }, ], yAxisID: "yAxis5", + ...EMACS_ITEM, }, { label: "Google Play Music", @@ -261,6 +263,27 @@ const EMACS_DATA = { yAxisID: "yAxis7", ...EMACS_ITEM, }, + { + label: "Telegram Desktop", + data: [ + { + name: "Messenger", + span: [new Date("2022-03-22"), new Date("2023-01-07")], + }, + ], + yAxisID: "yAxis8", + }, + { + label: "telega.el", + data: [ + { + name: "Messenger", + span: [new Date("2023-01-07"), TODAY], + }, + ], + yAxisID: "yAxis8", + ...EMACS_ITEM, + }, ].map((d) => { if (!d.backgroundColor) { d.backgroundColor = COLORS[i]; @@ -302,7 +325,7 @@ function emacsChart() { min: new Date("2018-09"), }, ...Object.fromEntries( - [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map((i) => [ + [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7].map((i) => [ `yAxis${i}`, { display: false, @@ -316,7 +339,7 @@ function emacsChart() { }, title: { display: true, - text: "Everything goes into Emacs", + text: "Figure 1. Everything goes into Emacs", color: "black", font: { size: 15, @@ -350,6 +373,59 @@ function emacsChart() { }); } +async function emacsScreenTimeChart() { + const response = await fetch("/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-screen-time.json"); + const rawData = await response.json(); + const data = { + labels: rawData.map((d) => new Date(d["date_trunc"])), + datasets: [ + { + data: rawData.map((d) => ({ + period: new Date(d["date_trunc"]), + value: d["percent"], + })), + }, + ], + }; + + const ctx = document.getElementById("chart-emacs-screen-time"); + new Chart(ctx, { + type: "bar", + data, + options: { + parsing: { + xAxisKey: "period", + yAxisKey: "value", + }, + scales: { + x: { + type: "time", + min: data.labels[0], + }, + y: { + title: { + display: true, + text: "Ratio of direct screen time", + }, + }, + }, + plugins: { + legend: { + display: false, + }, + title: { + display: true, + text: "Figure 2. Emacs direct screen time ratio over time", + color: "black", + font: { + size: 15, + }, + }, + }, + }, + }); +} + async function emacsTimeChart() { const response = await fetch( "/data/2023-03-14-emacs/emacs-related-time-per-month.json" @@ -421,7 +497,7 @@ async function emacsTimeChart() { plugins: { title: { display: true, - text: "Emacs-related time per month", + text: "Figure 3. Structure of Emacs usage per month", color: "black", font: { size: 15, @@ -481,7 +557,7 @@ async function emacsTimeChart() { plugins: { title: { display: true, - text: "Emacs-related time per month (stacked)", + text: "Figure 4. Structure of Emacs usage per month (stacked)", color: "black", font: { size: 15, @@ -783,6 +859,7 @@ document.addEventListener( "DOMContentLoaded", async function () { emacsChart(); + emacsScreenTimeChart(); emacsTimeChart(); configsChart(); packagesChart();