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Karl Voit on the Reply-To Header

I’ve long known about the Reply-To header in emails but I’ve always been unclear on exactly what it did and how it worked. Karl Voit has an excellent short blog post on using the Reply-To header in emails. It turns … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on Starting to Use Org-mode

Karl Voit has a nice post in his Using Org Mode Features series. It’s advice on how to start using Org-mode. Org-mode is large and complicated and can seem intimidating. That leads many people to start with someone else’s configuration. … Continue reading

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Notes for Karl Voit’s Talk at 35c3

Karl Voit gave a talk about Org mode at the recent 35c3 conference. He argued the position that even if you’re a die hard Vim user—like he is—Org mode has a lot to offer and it’s worth learning a bit … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on Security

Karl Voit has an useful post on good password security practices. There’s not really anything new in the post but it brings together most of the best practices in a single place. The main problem is that you no longer … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on Key Bindings and File Hierarchy

Karl Voit has a couple of nice posts in which he discusses his key binding and file hierarchy strategies. If you’re like me, these things develop in an organic—a nice way of saying haphazard—way. They just evolve over time without … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on Org Mode

Karl Voit has a lovely paean to Org mode in which he recounts his journey to Org in a years-long quest to organize his life and maintain a knowledge database. I’m sympathetic. I started with a Rolodex and a pocket … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup

I’ve been following a tweet discussion between Karl Voit and several others over the relative merits of light weight markup languages. You can get a feel for the arguments by expanding the following: For #orgmode as a markup (w/o Emacs) … Continue reading

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Karl Voit’s Emacs Configuration

Karl Voit is an expert on organizing and storing information. One of his basic building blocks is Emacs and Org mode. It’s interesting, therefore, to see the history of how he’s organized his Emacs configuration. If you follow the link … Continue reading

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Karl Voit on Moving from Screen to Tmux

If you spend a lot of time using your terminal to log into remote machines, you are probably aware of GNU Screen and tmux. If you aren’t using one of these, you should definitely check them out. They work nicely … Continue reading

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Karl Voit Lightning Talk

PIM export Karl Voit gave a lightning talk on Org Mode at the recent Chaos Computer Club Camp2015. Being a lightning talk is was pretty short. That’s too bad, I would have liked it to be a bit longer. The … Continue reading

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