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Taking Rich Screenshots with Wezterm

When working on this site, I’ve often wanted to include a screenshot or two. But since git doesn’t work well with binary files and I don’t want to have to deal with media hosting I’ve tended to shy away from it.

However, a lot of what I want to take a screenshot of can be rendered in a terminal.

Which is suddenly quite interesting as a terminal’s contents can be entirely described in plain(-ish) text. Surely it must be possible to capture the contents of a terminal window and then render it as some kind of image? Perhaps an SVG?

M-x pdb |*gud-test*        x                                 [37%] 15:41 21/06/25 ☰ -> if not state.headers_complete:                                           (Pdb)  > /var/home/alex/Projects/swyddfa/lsp-devtools/develop/lib/lsp-devtools/ls\ p_devtools/agent/server.py(166)feed()                                       -> if (idx := state.buffer.find(SEP)) == -1:                                (Pdb)  > /var/home/alex/Projects/swyddfa/lsp-devtools/develop/lib/lsp-devtools/ls\ p_devtools/agent/server.py(169)feed()                                       -> line, state.buffer = state.buffer[:idx], state.buffer[idx + len(SEP) :]  (Pdb) idx 30                                                                          (Pdb)  -  *gud-test* 25:6      (Debugger:run Apheleia)                             +  158 # messages to be stuck in the buffer... +  159 # +  160 # So we will keep running that parser as long as the buffe\ r continues toshrink +  161 previous_length = len(state.buffer) + 1                     +  162 whilelen(state.buffer) < previous_length:                  +  163 previous_length = len(state.buffer)                     +  164 breakpoint()                                            +  165 ifnot state.headers_complete:                          +  166 if (idx := state.buffer.find(SEP)) == -1:           +  167 return +  168  + =>169 line, state.buffer = state.buffer[:idx], state.buf\ -🖿 lsp-devtools server.py 169:0      (Python Flymake[001] ws Apheleia© 

Yes it is!

In this blog post I describe how I arrived at the workflow I used to include the above screenshot on this website.

Blogging with Sphinx and denote.el

If you have spent any time following the Emacs community, you will have likely come across the denote.el project. denote.el defines a clever file-naming scheme and provides an associated Emacs package containing utilities for managing files which follow this naming scheme.

In this blog post I outline how I have adopted denote.el to manage the content on this site and how I’ve extended Sphinx to take advantage this.

I’ve Started a Blog… Again!

Not that you would have known it, but I’ve had a blog since 2014. Well 2015 if you’re feeling generous, the first (and only) post went up in the last few hours of New Year’s Eve. It was a look back on some of the projects I had worked on that year and I announced my intentions to start blogging.

Fast forward nearly 4 years and here I am announcing my intentions to start blogging - again. So I guess you are wondering what happened?

I got lost.

My first attempt at running a blog was using Jekyll and for some mystical reason (It’s been so long I can’t actually remember why), I decided that it was not the static site generator I was looking for. So I promptly set off on a voyage of discovery in search of the ultimate static site generator.