Category Archives: General

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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Red Meat Friday: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Posted on 2023-05-19 by jcs

When I added this item to my blog queue, I marked it as a Red Meat Friday post but now that I’m actually writing it, I’m having second thoughts. That’s because there’s nothing really controversial here. Everyone agrees—or should agree—with … Continue reading →

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Org Footnote Assistant

Posted on 2023-05-18 by jcs

Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote … Continue reading →

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