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A Warning for Web Designers

Posted on 2017-03-09 by jcs

It’s only just, after all WEB DESIGNER: (wakes up in lava) Wh…why am I in hell?SATAN: You knowWD: Was it the autopl-SATAN: It was the fucking autoplay videos, dude — Elle Oh Hell (@ElleOhHell) March 5, 2017

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Installing Hugo and Goorgeous

Posted on 2017-03-08 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about blogging with Hugo and Org. Part of that post involved how Diego Mundo worked around the fact that Hugo expects its input in markdown so that he could write his posts in Org markup. … Continue reading →

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Netops

Posted on 2017-03-07 by jcs

One of my favorite applications of Org mode and Babel is demonstrated by Howard Abrams’ post and video on what he calls Literate DevOps. The basic idea is that he documents his work in an Org file complete with the … Continue reading →

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Undo/Redo with Scrolling

Posted on 2017-03-06 by jcs

The rollover joke for this XKCD cartoon says If used with software that could keep up, a scroll wheel mapped to send a stream of ’undo’ and ’redo’ events could be kind of cool. So of course an Emacs geek, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 32: Using Emacs for C++

Posted on 2017-03-05 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another great video up. It’s number 32 in his Using Emacs series and discusses using Emacs for C++ coding. I’m always seeing Twitter queries on how to use Emacs as a C++ development platform and I’ve written … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Org Mode and Hugo

Posted on 2017-03-04 by jcs

Diego A. Mundo over at whyarethingsthewaytheyare.com has a nice post on how to blog with Hugo and Org mode. Hugo uses markdown as its input language but Mundo likes to work with Org so he wrote a bit of Elisp … Continue reading →

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Mu4e Tutorial

Posted on 2017-03-03 by jcs

Gregory Stein over at Caches to Caches has a really nice tutorial on configuring mu4e and offlineimap to handle your email from within Emacs. That’s an on-going project—delayed mostly by laziness—here at Irreal so I was especially interested in the … Continue reading →

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Library Hand

Posted on 2017-03-02 by jcs

Years ago, there were not only library card catalogs but the cards within them were handwritten. Written not with the hen scratching that characterizes my (and probably your) handwriting but with a beautiful, legible, and, as it turns out, standard … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 31: Elfeed (3)

Posted on 2017-03-01 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs series up. This is the third in his set of videos on Elfeed. This time he considers using macros and hydras with Elfeed. In the second video, Zamansky showed how … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Workflow

Posted on 2017-02-28 by jcs

Andreas Gerler has a nice post on how he leverages Emacs to lessen the friction of his workflow. All Emacs users do that, of course. What struck me about Gerler’s post is that he takes a literate devops approach, as … Continue reading →

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