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Another Workflow

Posted on 2017-01-20 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m fond of seeing other people’s workflows, especially those workflows centered around Emacs. Torstein Johansen has an interesting post on his workflow. Johansen describes his hardware and OS environment (a Thinkpad with 2 external screens running … Continue reading →

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Rust vs. Go

Posted on 2017-01-19 by jcs

As most of you probably know, Eric Raymond (ESR) is part of an effort to rewrite the Network Time Protocol (NTP) suite to be smaller and more secure. You can follow the project’s progress on their blog. The NTP daemon … Continue reading →

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Dangerous Phishing Attack

Posted on 2017-01-18 by jcs

There is a dangerous phishing attack being targeted (mostly) at Google Mail. It’s clever enough that it has fooled even sophisticated technical users. What happens is that you get an email from someone you know that includes a clickable image. … Continue reading →

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More Experiments with Indexing Org Files

Posted on 2017-01-17 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about John Kitchin’s use of SQLite to index his Org files. Kitchin uses Org mode as a centerpiece of his workflow and has about 5 years of files spread across his local file … Continue reading →

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You Are Not Expected to Understand This

Posted on 2017-01-16 by jcs

I recently came across a post that explains the famous comment in the 6th Edition Unix source code: * You are not expected to understand this. I haven’t seen or thought about this for years but it was once quite … Continue reading →

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Recurring Org Events

Posted on 2017-01-15 by jcs

Karl Voit has published an instructive post on how to specify recurring events in Org mode. As most of you know, you can annotate an Org TODO entry to specify that it should occur every day, every week, every 3rd … Continue reading →

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A Reminder about Emacs Keybindings on MacOS

Posted on 2017-01-14 by jcs

Recently, I’ve seen tweets such as this one: Some emacs commands work in OS X text fields https://t.co/iEjCjcHAVa #emacs — /r/Emacs (@EmacsReddit) January 14, 2017 It’s been a few years since I last wrote about that so here, as a … Continue reading →

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An Org Workflow

Posted on 2017-01-13 by jcs

Gregory J Stein, an MIT Ph.D student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has an interesting post on how he uses Org mode and the agenda to organize his projects and daily tasks. Like all graduate students, he leads a … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law Strikes in Baltimore

Posted on 2017-01-12 by jcs

Baltimore has an aerial surveillance program that uses a small plane equipped with high resolution cameras flying over the city for hours at a time. This is eternal story of surveillance: first it's terrorism, then it's drug cases, then it's … Continue reading →

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A PSA from Sacha

Posted on 2017-01-11 by jcs

Here’s a useful public service announcement from Sacha Chua: Need to troubleshoot Org Mode publishing, such as broken links? Org 9 has org-lint. Handy! — Sacha Chua (@sachac) January 10, 2017

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