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Query

Posted on 2016-08-17 by jcs

Does anyone know how to diminish Yasnippet on the Emacs mode line? I’ve tried everything I can think of and have consulted with Duck Duck Go but I’m still getting the annoying “yas” on my mode line. This does not … Continue reading →

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The Lies They Tell Us

Posted on 2016-08-16 by jcs

I’ve been complaining about the horror of open-plan offices for some time. I firmly believe that the only people in favor of them are short sighted managers looking to reduce costs. Still, I keep seeing articles assuring me that, yes … Continue reading →

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Making Us Root for Sci-Hub

Posted on 2016-08-15 by jcs

A couple of months ago I wrote about Jason Shen’s article on how Sci-Hub was blowing up academic publishing. I said I was conflicted about Sci-Hub because they basically make journal articles from academic publishers available for free and that’s … Continue reading →

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More Spice with Emacs and Org Mode

Posted on 2016-08-14 by jcs

Tiago Oliveira Weber has a nice followup to his previous post on doing spice experiments with Org mode. I wrote about his previous post last month. His latest offering discusses how you can explore design ideas, perform calculations, run circuit … Continue reading →

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Emacs: The Universal OS

Posted on 2016-08-13 by jcs

I came across this tweet Slowly incorporating #emacs' EShell to my workflow. At least I can still practice shell-fu even if I'm not on Linux. #dev #gamedev — Accidental Rebel (@accidentalrebel) August 11, 2016 the other day and it reminded … Continue reading →

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The W3C and DRM

Posted on 2016-08-12 by jcs

pic.twitter.com/WKWGdZZo8m — Defective by Design (@endDRM) August 10, 2016

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Inserting Today’s Date

Posted on 2016-08-11 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs posted a nice little bit of Elisp to insert today’s date. That reminded me that the first Elisp, other than routine configuration lines, that I wrote was a function to insert the date. Mine … Continue reading →

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A C/C++ Development Environment

Posted on 2016-08-10 by jcs

It seems odd to me that people keep asking for C/C++ environments for Emacs. Odd because you’d think this would have settled years ago. I’m guessing that this is mostly about having an IDE environment, like Eclipse, for C++. A … Continue reading →

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Migrate Data From Evernote to Org

Posted on 2016-08-09 by jcs

Although I generally avoid committing data to proprietary applications, I find Evernote useful for capturing Web articles that I might want to revisit. If it’s really important, it goes into my journal, perhaps with a link to the original site … Continue reading →

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Shoutout

Posted on 2016-08-08 by jcs

This is a shoutout to Artur Malabarba for his excellent elisp-bug-hunter that I wrote about last year. This morning, I upgraded my packages, one of which was Org, and afterwards Emacs would not load. I was getting an error about … Continue reading →

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