Category Archives: General

Setting an Org Table Formula

Posted on 2018-02-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski has a useful reminder on how to easily assign a formula to an Org table cell or column. If you use the Org spreadsheet functionality, take a look.

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Video on Searching with Swiper

Posted on 2018-02-24 by jcs

Those of you who hang around Irreal know that I’m a huge fan of the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper suite. It is, by far, the most important package I have installed1 and has improved my workflow in a major way. Uncle Dave has … Continue reading →

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Using Multiple Editors

Posted on 2018-02-23 by jcs

I saw this tweet: Editors I use:#vim – git commits#emacs – org mode#atomeditor– work dev#vscode – side project dev (new thing) — Thomas Mattacchione (@tmkjone) February 20, 2018 and recoiled in horror. It’s not that I think Mattacchione is doing … Continue reading →

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Literate Benchmarking

Posted on 2018-02-22 by jcs

I’ve written several posts that celebrate Org mode for its ability to document various tasks in a literate way, execute the code, and gather the results. The nice thing about this process is that you have everything together: Documentation of … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 43: Playing Music with MPD

Posted on 2018-02-21 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has posted another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video looks at playing music with MPD and Emacs. Of course, Emacs can’t play music on its own but it can be used to control music players, effectively … Continue reading →

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Brent’s Cycle Detection Algorithm

Posted on 2018-02-20 by jcs

Anyone who’s prepped for a technical interview or who has an interest in algorithms is probably familiar with Floyd’s Tortoise and Hare algorithm for cycle detection in a linked list. The idea is that you traverse the list with two … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 42: Git Gutter and Git Time Machine

Posted on 2018-02-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his excellent Using Emacs Series. This time he looks at Git Gutter and Git Time Machine. These are a couple of small utilities that make working with Git files and repositories a bit … Continue reading →

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Emacs for Devops

Posted on 2018-02-18 by jcs

Alexey Koval has a nice post on Emacs as a devops editor. It’s from a little over a year old but it’s still worth taking a look at. I’m not involved with devops but I still learned a few useful … Continue reading →

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Adtech: Everything That’s Wrong with the Internet?

Posted on 2018-02-17 by jcs

Kontra takes note of this New York Times article: Privacy vs. adtech, a NYTimes edition 2015: Real men don’t need no privacyhttps://t.co/xCFL5CZXtw 2018: Blossoming enlightenment https://t.co/eEJ8eBJ44Z — Kontra (@counternotions) February 1, 2018 The article is by Farhad Manjoo, who in … Continue reading →

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The UPSide Project

Posted on 2018-02-16 by jcs

Last week I wrote about Eric Raymond’s UPS rant. If you missed that, the TL;DR is that UPSes are horrible, don’t do what they’re supposed to do or meet their specs, and mostly excel only in inducing rage in their … Continue reading →

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