Author Archives: jcs

Zamansky 46: Auto-YASnippet

Posted on 2018-03-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time he discusses Artur Malabarba’s agressive-indent-mode and abo-abo’s Auto YASnippet. In what could be an example of great minds thinking alike but is more likely simply a quotidian … Continue reading →

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Log In Zulu

Posted on 2018-03-15 by jcs

Eric Raymond (esr) says we should always use UTC instead of local time in our log messages. Specifically, he says we should use RFC3339 timestamps. Using local timestamps and other ambiguous information in log entries is a well established practice … Continue reading →

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Grepping Git Repositories and Other Collections

Posted on 2018-03-14 by jcs

My current workflow has two ways of grepping collections of files. For grepping Git repositories, I use counsel-git-grep. It uses the fast grep built into Git as a backend. For other collections, I use counsel-ag, a recursive grep that uses … Continue reading →

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Mind Mapping with Org-brain

Posted on 2018-03-13 by jcs

If you like to visualize your projects and tasks with mind-mapping, like to work with an interactive GUI, and don’t mind proprietary software, you may like The Brain. You can see how it works in this video. It appears to … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 45: Autocomplete and Company Mode

Posted on 2018-03-12 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up in his Using Emacs Series. After commenting on what a great time it is to be an Emacs user, Zamansky considers Autocomplete and Company mode. These, of course, are completion packages for Emacs. … Continue reading →

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Radio Buttons and Devops in Org Mode

Posted on 2018-03-11 by jcs

Regular readers know that I am very enamored of Howard Abrams’ excellent post and video on literate devops. It’s not that my duties include devops; rather it’s that the methods he demonstrates are applicable to a wide range of problems … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on 2018-03-10 by jcs

As I do every year on this date, I’d like to wish Pink Floyd’s iconic album, Dark Side of the Moon, a happy birthday. The album was released 45 years ago today and went on to be one of the … Continue reading →

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MathJax Tips

Posted on 2018-03-09 by jcs

Over at John Cook’s TeX Tips there’s a pointer to a very nice MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference. It’s especially handy for those who don’t use \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) all the time but occasionally want to include a bit of mathematics … Continue reading →

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Ten Tools for Academics

Posted on 2018-03-08 by jcs

Over at Academia Obscura they have a list of 10 essential tools for academics and PhD students. It’s a useful list but my immediate reaction upon reading it was that you can do all that with Emacs. Well, you can’t … Continue reading →

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The Smartphone as Part of Your Mind

Posted on 2018-03-07 by jcs

Karina Vold over at the Sigularity Hub has a thought provoking article on the extent to which your smartphone is part of your mind. At first, it seems like a silly idea except in a trivial sense. But as Vold … Continue reading →

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