Author Archives: jcs

Literature Management with Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-26 by jcs

I saw a query that had a link to a post from a couple of years ago that I missed at the time. It’s by Anand Iyer who is—or, perhaps, was—a graduate student and therefore is constantly reading papers. When … Continue reading →

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A Short Org Table Tutorial

Posted on 2019-04-25 by jcs

Someone tweeted a link to this very nice Org table tutorial from 2013. Even though it’s fairly old, the information is still up to date and useful. I learned a couple of tricks that I either didn’t know or had … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar on Why He’s Video Blogging

Posted on 2019-04-24 by jcs

I’ve written a few times about Vivek Haldar’s Read A Paper videos. They’re vlogs that “read” a seminal paper in Computer Science. They’re really great. If I’ve already read the paper, that particular vlog serves to remind me of the … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar: Global Variables

Posted on 2019-04-23 by jcs

Vivek Haldar has been blogging up a storm with his video readings of seminal CS papers. I’ve written about a few of them but there’s lots more. See his blog for an up-to-date list. A recent post was about the … Continue reading →

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The Power of Vanilla Emacs

Posted on 2019-04-22 by jcs

There’s an interesting blog post by bendersteed that discusses the power of vanilla Emacs. Emacs, he says, has a lot of useful packages but we shouldn’t underestimate the power of built-in commands that have nearly the same function. He notes, … Continue reading →

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The Dream Draws Nearer

Posted on 2019-04-21 by jcs

If you’re a hardcore Emacser or Lisper, you’ve probably always drooled over the famous space-cadet keyboard. Just think, you’d have keys for all four bucky bits, not to mention a multitude of other keys with no apparent use if you … Continue reading →

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How Uber Debugged a Latency Problem

Posted on 2019-04-20 by jcs

Even though I’m an Uber user, I’ve never thought very much about their IT infrastructure other than to form an (hilariously) simplified mental model of what it probably looks like. It turns out to be a pretty sophisticated operation that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Future History

Posted on 2019-04-19 by jcs

I was reading this post on some Ivy hacks and it reminded me of another post that I’ve been meaning to comment on. Over at the CollBox blog, Cameron Desautels writes about the Emacs concept of future history. The idea … Continue reading →

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Refactoring Prose With Org Mode

Posted on 2019-04-18 by jcs

Edmund Jorgensen over at Edmund’s technical ramblings has a really excellent post on leveraging Org mode in a nontrivial way for writing prose. Jorgensen is a software developer by day and a novelist by night. He’s published two novels and … Continue reading →

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EmacsCast: The Video

Posted on 2019-04-17 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev, whose EmacsCast podcast I’ve written about many times, has published a video on his Emacs configuration and workflow. As you know by now, I always enjoy seeing how others use Emacs and most often learn something new or … Continue reading →

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