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Category Archives: Blogging
Emacs Challenge?
Some of the most popular posts here at Irreal are those in which I attempt bring the power of Emacs to bear on VimGolf problems. I like those posts too because I always learn some new tricks both by working … Continue reading
Blogging With Emacs—Another Method
Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there … Continue reading
WordPress And Trackbacks
I’m a big fan of WordPress. I know a lot of people disagree but it works very well for me. It allows me to maintain a nicely laid out blog without spending a lot of time with administration. I do … Continue reading
Administrivia
The scum spammers, who doubtless describe themselves as SEO consultants, have discovered a new way to get links into forum comments: trackbacks and pingbacks. Irreal does have the occasional legitimate trackback and I enjoy them as they give me a … Continue reading
Happy Anniversary To Mastering Emacs
Happy Anniversary to Mickey Petersen and Mastering Emacs. Mickey has been posting really great material for a year now and we should all hope he continues. As I’ve said before, Mickey always has something interesting to say and I invariably … Continue reading
A New Trick For Marking Up Key Sequences in Emacs
Frozenlock left a comment to an old post of mine about Marking Up Key Sequences For HTML. He said he liked the way Xah Lee and I mark up Emacs keys sequences but that he didn’t like having to write … Continue reading
Administrivia—Moderation
Some of you may have noticed that your comments were held in the moderation queue longer than usual the last two days. That’s because I haven’t been getting email notifications of new comments. I’ll look into what’s happening there but … Continue reading
Blogging With Emacs
Xah Lee asked me to write about my blog publishing process and how an article gets from Emacs to my site. I’ve written about most of the parts of the process in various posts but it might be useful to … Continue reading
Administrivia: Captchas
The amount of comment spam has reached intolerable levels: spam comments far outnumber legitimate comments and moderating them is taking an increasing amount of time. Therefore, I have reluctantly installed a captcha to try to bring the problem under control. … Continue reading
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Searching For Blog Posts With Dired
Here’s another nice trick using Dired. I sometimes want to make an update to a blog post a few days or even weeks after I published it. I have no problem finding the title of the post, if I need … Continue reading