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I Want One

Some good advice from Troy Hunt: pic.twitter.com/q0BMtbDwzc — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) August 5, 2015

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Calc Tutorial Video

Karthik C has a very nice video entitled Emacs-Calc: The Poor Man’s Mathematica. It’s a tutorial on some of the features of Emacs calc. He begins by covering the basic stack machine nature of calc and how to perform simple … Continue reading →

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Four Times

Pretty much shows the FBI is being a bit disingenuous: Going dark? Crypto was a problem in a grand total of FOUR wiretaps last year. http://t.co/zZlDRzGFLi pic.twitter.com/zGALMT39cd — matt blaze (@mattblaze) July 1, 2015

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Wha?!?

I’ve recently experienced a canonical instance of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Until the other day, I had no idea that Emacs had a built-in spreadsheet. Now, I’m seeing references to ses (Simple Emacs Spreadsheet) everywhere. It even has its own manual. … Continue reading →

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Key Management

is the hard part.

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Repeated Links in Org Mode

The tireless Artur Malabarba has shown us how to make custom Org links for special purposes before (1, 2). Now he shows us how to implement Markdown links. The point here is that with Markdown, you define a link and … Continue reading →

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Crossword

For all you puzzle constructors out there: How to create a crossword puzzle in LaTeX http://t.co/0BdZcYhRyA — TeX tips (@TeXtip) July 7, 2015 The cwpuzzle makes it really easy to typeset a crossword puzzle. If you want to try your … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Professional Writers

Last time, I wrote about how Bin Chen writes in Org mode and exports the final document to Word doc format. Most engineers are spared the indignity of having to produce Word documents but if you’re a writer producing anything … Continue reading →

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How to Convert from Org to Word

If you’re like me, you’d rather take a pencil in the eye than write using Word or any of its evil spawn. Sometimes, though, you really need to deliver a doc file. Even in a lead engineer position I sometimes … Continue reading →

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WiFi on a Rifle

What could go wrong?

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