Category Archives: General

Hardware Microphone Interlock

Posted on 2020-04-07 by jcs

Here’s a good idea. Apple laptops with the T2 security chip have a hardware interlock that turns off the microphone when the cover is closed. Apple stresses that the interlock is hardware based and can not be disabled by software. … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs as a Python IDE

Posted on 2020-04-06 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs scene, one of the questions you see all the time is how to configure Emacs as a Python IDE. Emacs, of course, offers rudimentary support for Python but that consists mostly of syntax highlighting and … Continue reading →

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Schneier on Zoom Security

Posted on 2020-04-05 by jcs

The COVID-19 pandemic is having many unexpected consequences. One of those consequences is to bring the Zoom video conferencing platform to the attention of almost everyone. Zoom appears to have the best-in-class video conferencing software as far as video and … Continue reading →

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An Annotated Bibliography with Org Mode

Posted on 2020-04-04 by jcs

Gregory Stein, over at Caches to Caches, has a great post on a novel application of Org Mode. Stein is an academic who reads a lot of papers. It’s important for a researcher to not only read the latest research … Continue reading →

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Ten Tips for Getting Started With Emacs

Posted on 2020-04-03 by jcs

Over at Opensource.com, Seth Kenlon an interesting post on 10 tips for getting started with Emacs. There are a couple of items I disagree with but most of the post is good advice. His first piece of advice is to … Continue reading →

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Using Notion as a Zettelkasten

Posted on 2020-04-01 by jcs

The other day I was checking Ali Abdaal’s You Tube feed for new videos and I happened to see an older video that I’d watched earlier. It was about how Abdaal uses Notion as a resonance calendar. When I first … Continue reading →

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Tips for an Effective Home Office

Posted on 2020-03-31 by jcs

Because the COVID-19 crisis has caused a large uptick of the number of people working from home, I’m going to try to write a bit more about effective strategies for doing that. What that means is that as I find … Continue reading →

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Implementing a Zettelkasten with Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-30 by jcs

In a perfect example of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomenon, a month ago I had never heard of the the term Zettelkasten and now it seems to be everywhere I look. Previously, I wrote about the idea and noted that it was … Continue reading →

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A Repository for Writing a Thesis With Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-29 by jcs

Back in 2018, I wrote about a post by Daniel Gomez that describes how to use Org-mode for writing a thesis. At the time, Gomez was in the process of writing his own thesis and his post details his work … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 70: Org Protocol

Posted on 2020-03-28 by jcs

If you’ve been following Irreal for a while, you know that I periodically try to get Org Protocol integrated into my workflow and end up writing a post on how I failed yet again. The last such post was just … Continue reading →

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