Category Archives: General

Note Making

Posted on 2021-01-17 by jcs

Anne-Laure Le Cunff over at Ness Labs has an interesting article on the difference between note taking and note making. One way of thinking of the difference is to consider note making as active note taking. Rather than simply record … Continue reading →

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Yesterday’s Date

Posted on 2021-01-16 by jcs

One of my daily tasks involves making a log entry in which I have to use yesterday’s date. That’s pretty easy with Org dates but the dates in the log don’t have the usual Org markup of square or angle … Continue reading →

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Chris Wellons on State Machines

Posted on 2021-01-15 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I love programming state machines. I spent many years writing software for communications software using odd protocols. The easiest way of implementing those protocols was almost always to use a state machine. Once you … Continue reading →

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Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper

Posted on 2021-01-14 by jcs

Literate Programming. Back in 1984 when Knuth published his paper proposing Literate Programming, he believed that the concept would take over the programming world. I remember him saying that companies that failed to adopt Literate Programming would soon fall behind … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-13 by jcs

Yesterday’s post discussed David Wilson’s video on setting up and using authinfo. In that video, Wilson mentioned his videos on setting up mu4e and how authinfo fit into configuring mu4e and mbsync. Those videos are also worth watching. The first … Continue reading →

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Setting Up and Using Authinfo With Emacs

Posted on 2021-01-12 by jcs

Once you start moving more and more of your computing tasks into Emacs, you’re going to need a way of handling passwords. Mail is the canonical example but there are also things like blogging sites, ftp servers and other functions … Continue reading →

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Adding a Third Monitor to EXWM

Posted on 2021-01-11 by jcs

Twelve or thirteen years ago, I got my first Mac. Fast forward to today and you’ll find that the Irreal bunker is firmly in the Apple ecosystem. One of the things I don’t miss—at all—is struggling with getting X configured. … Continue reading →

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Prot on Embark

Posted on 2021-01-10 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has a new video up in which he discusses Embark and some of his extensions to it. For those unfamiliar with Embark, it’s a package that lets you bind actions to keys in a context sensitive way. … Continue reading →

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Group Tags in Org-mode

Posted on 2021-01-09 by jcs

I know about Org’s group tags but like any things in Emacs, I wasn’t using them so they slipped out of my mind. Until today. Today, I saw this Tweet: #orgtip: This one blew my mind, org mode allows you … Continue reading →

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Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor

Posted on 2021-01-08 by jcs

Is there a backdoor in your editor? Probably not, even if you’re using IntelliJ, but in a moment of schadenfreude for FOSS folks, the New York Times is reporting that JetBrains software may have been used as vector in the … Continue reading →

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