Category Archives: General

PSA: Elisp Has Builtin Threading Macros

Posted on 2023-05-30 by jcs

I’ve written about Clojure’s threading macros and their implementation in Elisp before [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. I like them but almost always use the traditional composition of functions instead. That’s probably because being a mathematician it seems natural to … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-webkit Update

Posted on 2023-05-29 by jcs

The other day I wrote about installing elfeed-webkit to render my RSS feed as proper HTML. I was pretty impressed with it when I first tried it and now I’m even more of a fan. Before elfeed-webkit, I spent a … Continue reading →

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Org Blk URI

Posted on 2023-05-28 by jcs

Just a quickie. I stumbled across a post from Andrea that describes his package Org Blk URI. It’s pretty simple: it’s just a way of extracting the content at a URL into an Org source block. That’s handy for capturing … Continue reading →

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PDF at 30

Posted on 2023-05-27 by jcs

PDF. It’s a ubiquitous standard that seems like it’s always been here. How else would you prepare a document that could be printed on virtually any printer or displayed on any screen in the best possible resolution? But, it turns … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Latex vs. Word

Posted on 2023-05-26 by jcs

The minions hate Word even more than they hate dark themes so they insisted I run with this: when a mathematician says they prefer writing with word over latex pic.twitter.com/YJTVoln0iJ — Anthony Bonato (@Anthony_Bonato) May 19, 2023 Like last week’s … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-webkit

Posted on 2023-05-25 by jcs

I just stumbled across a post by Fritz Grabo about his package elfeed-webkit. When I first saw it, I thought it was interesting and worth a look. After reading more about it, I knew I had to install it. That … Continue reading →

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Emacs Badges

Posted on 2023-05-24 by jcs

As far as I know, it started with this reddit post. It was a request for a “built with Emacs” badge. Those badges were the type of thing you used to see on Web sites. I’m pretty sure I had … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements on Emacs Regular Expressions

Posted on 2023-05-23 by jcs

Over at Emacs Elements there’s a nice video that explores Emacs regular expressions. One the one hand, virtually everyone hates Emacs regular expressions and wishes that Emacs used Perl compatible regexes instead. On the other hand, a case can be … Continue reading →

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The Story of Mel

Posted on 2023-05-22 by jcs

There’s a charming piece of foundation lore that every programmer in my cohort read and admired: The Story of Mel. Even when I was writing assembly language exclusively, the story was about a bygone era and techniques that no one … Continue reading →

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Emacs Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2023-05-20 by jcs

There’s another nice video over at Emacs Elements. This time it’s about using keyboard macros in Emacs. Keyboard macros really are a super power and it’s worth spending a few minutes learning some of the details. Most of us know … Continue reading →

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