Category Archives: General

The History of cat

Posted on 2018-12-24 by jcs

Over at Two-Bit History Sinclair Target makes the case that although it seems as if computer technology is always advancing and changing, we are still using software that is virtually unchanged from the dawn of the computer age. As a … Continue reading →

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A Theme for Prose Writers

Posted on 2018-12-23 by jcs

I came across a pointer to Kunal Bhalla’s Emacs Poet theme that may interest Emacsers writing prose using the Org or Markdown modes. As you can see from the screenshots at the above link, it uses a variable pitch font … Continue reading →

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Another Blogging Workflow with Org Publish

Posted on 2018-12-22 by jcs

I have a cold and feel awful so today’s post will be short but I did want to point you to Narendra Joshi’s excellent post on how he uses org-publish for his blog. What I really like about his setup … Continue reading →

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The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Posted on 2018-12-21 by jcs

The New York Times has a nice article on Don Knuth entitled The Yoda of Silicon Valley that talks briefly about his life and contributions to Computer Science. It’s been all over Internet but if you haven’t had a chance … Continue reading →

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Org to Dotfiles

Posted on 2018-12-20 by jcs

Back in 2016, I wrote about Haoyang Xu’s idea of keeping all your dotfiles in a single Org-mode file that tangles the individual dotfiles to their proper place in your directory structure. This allows you to write the dotfiles in … Continue reading →

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Scrolling with Emacs

Posted on 2018-12-19 by jcs

Back when I was still a Vim user, I would occasionally try Emacs because of its nice features. It never stuck—until it did—because some of its behavior seemed too alien. The most prominent example of that was the scrolling. By … Continue reading →

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Proced on the Mac

Posted on 2018-12-18 by jcs

Four and a half years ago I wrote about proced and Mickey’s excellent post about it. Sadly, it didn’t work on the Mac so I forgot about it until I saw this tweet from psnebc: #emacs #proced alternative to #htop … Continue reading →

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An Example of an Engineering Notebook

Posted on 2018-12-17 by jcs

Antonin Januska has posted a video showing how he set up and uses an engineering notebook. I’m always interested in how people implement engineering/scientific notebooks and Januska’s video is especially interesting because he implemented his as an Org-mode file. His … Continue reading →

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China Backs Plan S

Posted on 2018-12-16 by jcs

The Open Access movement got some good news when China announced they would back Plan S. Plan S is the European-led program to make all publicly funded research freely available upon publication in a journal. One would hardly think this … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Again Why You’re Still Using Windows

Posted on 2018-12-15 by jcs

Microsoft has been caught again spying on their users. Microsoft, of course, claims it’s all a big misunderstanding. They explain, Facebook like, that if you don’t want to share your data you have to adjust this obscure setting involving diagnostic … Continue reading →

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