Category Archives: General

Declarative, Reproducible Emacs

Posted on 2026-02-07 by jcs

Jacob Boxerman has a nice video and related blog post about his approach to configuring Emacs in a declarative and reproducible way. By “reproducible” he means that if he installs his init.el on a new system, he gets the exact … Continue reading →

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Org Capture From Anywhere

Posted on 2026-02-06 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Jack Baty has a short post on how he enables Org capture from anywhere on his system. He does pretty much what I do except that I use yequake instead of his custom script. Yequake probably … Continue reading →

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Remote Work: Advice From A Veteran

Posted on 2026-02-05 by jcs

For reasons having to do with adverse serendipity, I’ve never been able to achieve one of my long held employment goals: remote work. For one reason or another, I’ve always ended up working for control freaks who just knew that … Continue reading →

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How Punchagan Lost His Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-02-03 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Punchagan over at NOETIC NOUGHT started saving his Elfeed database after he lost it in a system crash. At the time, Punchagan didn’t know exactly what happened, only that the system … Continue reading →

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Exporting From Org To Docx

Posted on 2026-02-02 by jcs

JR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a useful post on exporting an Org document to Docx. I’ve written about this before [1, 2, 3] and you might wonder why. After all, you can simply export directly … Continue reading →

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Goodhart’s Law

Posted on 2026-02-01 by jcs

Michał Poczwardowski has a nice post on Goodhart’s Law. The law is usually expressed as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” That may seem a little abstract but its application is familiar to … Continue reading →

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Revisiting The 500 Mile Email

Posted on 2026-01-31 by jcs

Someone reposted Trey Harris’ famous story about the 500 mile email. The TL;DR is that Harris, working as a university system administrator, received a call from the Statistics Department claiming that they couldn’t send an email further than about 500 … Continue reading →

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Extracting Data From Journelly Entries

Posted on 2026-01-30 by jcs

As you all know, I am always writing about how much I like and use Journelly. One of the things that I always say is that since Journelly saves it data as an Org mode file—or, if you prefer, as … Continue reading →

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Return Of The Prodigal Son

Posted on 2026-01-29 by jcs

Well, not really prodigal, but the return—nonetheless—of a son assumed lost. Michał Sapka has a blog post about his return to Emacs. A while ago, Sapka left Emacs for Vim and the shell. He liked them but realized that Emacs … Continue reading →

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Kitty Cards

Posted on 2026-01-28 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez and Vaarnan Drolia have introduced a really interesting app. At least I guess you would call it an app. It’s actually just a Web page that lets you build your own custom Apple Wallet cards. It’s easy to … Continue reading →

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