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The Times They Are A-changin’

Except for you young guys for whom they’re pretty much the same: “Japan’s sole pager provider will end its services Tuesday, with the device, first introduced in the country half a century ago, made redundant by mobile phones.” (Are we … Continue reading

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Elisp in Eshell

I’m sure everybody reading this knows that you can invoke elisp commands from the eshell command line but if you’re like me you tend to forget it in the heat of the moment. That’s too bad because it’s often possible … Continue reading

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Dark Mode

Back in June, I wrote about the light-mode/dark-mode controversy and the article by Adam Engst claiming—and citing substantiating research—that all the claims of dark mode’s superiority are nonsense and, in fact, the opposite of the truth. In particular, dark mode … Continue reading

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Living Without a Wallet

In my Almost There post, I wrote that my everyday carry was down to just 3 items: My iPhone My house (and possibly) car keys My wallet and that I was trying to get it down to just my phone. … Continue reading

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You Are Not the User

I stumbled upon a very interesting article from 2016 entitled The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think. The real point of the article, though, is “You are not the user.” Whatever you think about your users’ assumptions … Continue reading

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The Using Org Mode Features Posts

My post on Wednesday about Karl Voit’s explanation of Org-mode tags and categories is actually part of a series. Voit decided to to curate his posts on how he uses Org-mode into a series he calls “Using Org Mode Features” … Continue reading

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Hacker Laws

Here’s a quickie that I stumbled on the other day. Dave Kerr has a nice GitHub repository that’s gathered a collection of “laws” and aphorisms that all Geeks know and love. He calls it hacker-laws. Many of the laws, such … Continue reading

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Tags and Categories in Org Mode

Karl Voit has a very nice post on Tags versus Categories in Org-mode. I’d completely forgotten about categories, even though I’ve written about them before, so I was glad to get a refresher. Categories, for those who don’t know, are … Continue reading

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How to Keep a Lab Notebook

I saw a pointer to this reddit post with the provocative title “Org mode appearing into the wild…” Naturally, I had to follow the link to see what it was about. It turns out to refer to a Science article … Continue reading

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Is It Time to Get Rid of The P-Test?

Betteridge’s law tells us to answer that question with a “no” and that’s—at least partially—the right answer. “No” is the right answer because scientists and statisticians can’t agree on what should replace the p-test. It’s the wrong answer because it’s … Continue reading

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