Category Archives: General

File and Directory Local Variables

Posted on 2020-11-05 by jcs

David Wilson over at the System Crafters Youtube channel has a useful video that discusses file and directory local variables. File local variables are Emacs variables that are specific to a particular file. A common use is to set the … Continue reading →

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Another Org Workflow

Posted on 2020-11-04 by jcs

Wai Hon has thought carefully about his workflow and how he can leverage Org-mode to make it as efficient and seamless as possible. He’s concerned mostly about task management so of course Org-mode is a perfect fit. He’s published a … Continue reading →

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Reproducibility

Posted on 2020-11-03 by jcs

I’ve written several times about the reroducibility crisis. That crisis is the fact that an astoundingly large percentage of scientific experiments can’t be reproduced by other researchers. That, of course, calls into question the validity of the original results. My … Continue reading →

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The Trial

Posted on 2020-11-02 by jcs

It’s like something out of Kafka. C. awoke one morning to find that after 15 years, all of his Google accounts were locked. He’d been accused of violating the terms of service. What violation? They wouldn’t tell him. He didn’t … Continue reading →

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Unix Pipes

Posted on 2020-11-01 by jcs

This post is a blast from the past \(\times 2\). One reason it’s a blast from the past is that it discusses the Unix V6 code. The other reason is that it discusses some of the code that first helped … Continue reading →

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James Bond

Posted on 2020-10-31 by jcs

In the end, there can be only one.

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The Map

Posted on 2020-10-31 by jcs

Although I’ve never lived in New York City, I love being there, have family who are lifetime New Yorkers, and visit regularly. One of the things I love about the city is that I can walk to most places I … Continue reading →

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Taking Math Class Notes With Emacs

Posted on 2020-10-30 by jcs

A year and a half ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel’s video on taking math class notes. I found his workflow astounding. He was able to take LaTeX notes in Math class at speed. By “at speed” I mean he … Continue reading →

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The NSA Stonewalls Congress

Posted on 2020-10-29 by jcs

I don’t get this. Reuters is reporting that the NSA is refusing to tell congress about its seeking of back doors. It’s certainly true that an argument can be made that the NSA should be seeking back doors but how … Continue reading →

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Literate Calc Mode

Posted on 2020-10-28 by jcs

Robin Schroer has an interesting project that recently landed in MELPA. Many of you know that I’m a big fan of reproducible research and its handmaiden literate programming. Schroer’s project is a sort of light-weight Jupyter Notebook that’s integrated with … Continue reading →

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