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Writing

This seems familiar The best part about sitting down to write is cleaning my entire apartment. — Caira Conner (@CairaConner) November 18, 2014

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Emacs Macro Counters Tutorial

Eric James Michael Ritz has a nice, short tutorial on using Emacs macro counters. I’ve written about this before but Ritz’s tutorial is a nice reminder if you haven’t used macro counters for a while. Definitely worth a read.

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A Backdoor by Any Other Name

Crypto backdoor euphemism of the day: "arrangement". http://t.co/LGr8mvy3mo — matt blaze (@mattblaze) August 19, 2015

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Org Basics II

As I wrote previously, Ben Maughan is writing a tutorial on Org mode basics. He continues the series with a very basic introduction to tables in Org mode. This post covers just the very basics like how to enter tables, … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode as a Lab Notebook

Erik Clarke over at pleiotropy has a couple of nice posts on using Org mode as a lab notebook. The first post lays out his requirements for a digital lab notebook. As you can probably guess, these include Permanence Citations … Continue reading →

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Libraries

Can you even imagine trying to invent public libraries in 2015? — Parker Higgins (@xor) August 21, 2015 You can almost hear the outraged wailing and dire predictions about the end of the publishing industry. It’s a knife aimed at … Continue reading →

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From WordPress to Org

Part of the reason that I moved Irreal from Blogger to WordPress was that I wanted to use org2blog to write and publish my posts directly from Emacs. As a result, every post on Irreal started life as—and is maintained … Continue reading →

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Patching the Production Server

Fixing a bug in production pic.twitter.com/saD82hLacz — Practical Developer (@ThePracticalDev) August 11, 2015 (via Jean-Philippe Paradis)

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Literate DevOps Video

I’ve mentioned Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps before. I think of it as a sort of reproducible research where you record the steps you use to create a deployment image including the code for each step. Abrams does this … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.2.15

The new SBCL (version 1.2.15) is out and ready for download. This release fixes some bugs, updates to ASDF 3.1.5, and makes some small improvements to PROGN and DEFCLASS. See the NEWS page for the details. As usual, I compiled … Continue reading →

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