Category Archives: General

Elfeed and Goto-address

Posted on 2020-03-17 by jcs

The other day I was reading an Elfeed entry and wanted to follow a link so with the point on the link, I typed Ctrl+c Ctrl+o as usual. Nothing happened. In Elfeed you can click on a link or press … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 68: Tramp and Org-publish

Posted on 2020-03-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video discusses maintaining a simple Web site with Emacs and Org-mode. Usually when I write about this sort of thing, it’s in the context of publishing to … Continue reading →

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Sort and Uniq

Posted on 2020-03-15 by jcs

I’ve been using Unix for 3 decades but I just learned something new about two of the basic Unix tools sort and uniq. If you’re not familiar with Unix command line tools, sort does just what it sounds like. You … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 and Data Caps

Posted on 2020-03-14 by jcs

One of the most annoying things that ISPs perpetrate on their customers is broadband data caps. It’s one of the main reasons Comcast is the company that everyone loves to hate but AT&T and others also have them. These companies … Continue reading →

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Blogging With (Only) Emacs

Posted on 2020-03-13 by jcs

If you’re an Emacser and a blogger, you will, of course, want to write and publish your posts from within Emacs. If you’re using WordPress, org2blog provides an excellent solution. You write your posts in Emacs and Org-mode as usual … Continue reading →

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Smart Notes

Posted on 2020-03-12 by jcs

I’m currently reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, a book that describes Niklas Luhmann’s method of taking, storing, and retrieving notes about ideas he thought could be useful later. Luhmann kept his notes on what amounted to index … Continue reading →

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Org and Anki

Posted on 2020-03-11 by jcs

If you took my advice and checked out Ali Abdaal’s videos on evidence-based study techniques, you know that one of the two guiding principles of effective learning is spaced repetition. An easy way to do that is to start with … Continue reading →

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Happy 47th Birthday, Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on 2020-03-10 by jcs

As I do every year on this day, I want to pause for a brief moment to consider the glory of one of the best albums ever recorded: Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Wikipedia says that it was … Continue reading →

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COVID-19

Posted on 2020-03-09 by jcs

Even if you are living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard a lot about COVID-19 and its potential to be a serious pandemic. There is, it turns out, not much you can do about the threat other than taking … Continue reading →

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Notion and Org Mode

Posted on 2020-03-08 by jcs

Ali Abdaal, whom I’ve mentioned a couple of times before, is a physician and YouTuber from Britain. He’s a geek who at least once a week uploads a video usually about medicine, tech, or studying and learning. If you’re a … Continue reading →

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