Author Archives: jcs

The Answer to Blogging Friction

Posted on 2015-02-05 by jcs

Although regular readers are familiar with it, here is a quick review of the history of my blogging work flow. In my old blog on Blogger, I was already using Org-mode but I exported the Org to HTML and pasted … Continue reading →

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Uncommon Bigrams

Posted on 2015-02-04 by jcs

Recently, Sacha Chua wrote about how she leveraged abo-abo’s def-repeat-command to easily call windmove and ace-window. She bound the function to the prefix key-chord of yy. That seemed an odd choice to me but I just shrugged and moved on. … Continue reading →

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Inserting C++ Object Names

Posted on 2015-02-03 by jcs

If you have the misfortune to be a C++ user, abo-abo over at (or emacs has a nifty bit of Elisp to make inserting code like some_object.method() much easier.

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SBCL 1.2.8

Posted on 2015-02-03 by jcs

Last night, I installed the latest version (1.2.8) of SBCL. As usual, the regression tests and installation executed without problem. You can get your copy at the usual place. This month’s release fixes some bugs, has three enhancements, and two … Continue reading →

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Sacha on Org Using Org Tables

Posted on 2015-02-02 by jcs

Sacha Chua has an outstanding post on how to add data to and get data from Org mode tables. I’ve written a lot about using Org tables and what used to be called Babel to calculate results from the tables … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Honor Society

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

John Kitchin, whose work I’ve mentioned many times, states the obvious. What would the Emacs honor society be called? λλλ of course. #emacs — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) December 20, 2014

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Deanonymizing Metadata

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the New York City Taxi Commission’s metadata and how easily it can be abused even though it was anonymized by removing the personally identifiable information. The anonymization notwithstanding, data analysts were able to … Continue reading →

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Running a Course Video

Posted on 2015-01-31 by jcs

My New Year’s post was about how John Kitchin used Emacs and Org-mode to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. If you want to see it in action, he’s posted a short video that shows the system from both … Continue reading →

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A Nice Org Mode Tip

Posted on 2015-01-30 by jcs

#Emacs of the day: Daily status reports? Notes in org-mode? Grab the block with "M-h" then "C-c C-e h o" export as HTML & open in browser. — Robin Green (@fatlimey) January 19, 2015

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Refactoring Multiple Files

Posted on 2015-01-30 by jcs

When I get tired of blogging I’m going to write some Elisp that everyday will make a post that says, “Abo-abo has a great post today. Go read it.” Really, if you don’t already have (or emacs in your feed, … Continue reading →

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