Category Archives: General

Chris Wellons on Emacs Calc

Posted on 2017-12-16 by jcs

In a nice piece of ironic serendipity, I found this reference to an old Chris Wellons post on Calc while reading my feed with Chris Wellons’ excellent feed reader, elfeed. As I written a several times, I really like calc … Continue reading →

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The Dream Achieved?

Posted on 2017-12-15 by jcs

Back in 2007, Mike Elgan wrote an article about The New Bedouins that really struck and excited me. In it he talked about a trend towards digital nomadism that was starting to take off. The “digital nomad” term was already … Continue reading →

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The Lions Book

Posted on 2017-12-14 by jcs

There was a time when you couldn’t be a Unix hacker unless you had a copy of John Lions’ A Commentary On The Sixth Edition Unix Operating System. It was supposed to be restricted to holders of a Unix license … Continue reading →

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A Multiple Cursors Use Case

Posted on 2017-12-13 by jcs

Our maximal leader, John Wiegley, has posted a very nice video in which he demonstrates one of the ways that he uses Magnar Sveen’s excellent multiple cursors package. There’s more to multiple cursors than just popping up a bunch of … Continue reading →

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Helpful

Posted on 2017-12-12 by jcs

I haven’t paid too much attention to Wilfred Hughes’ Helpful but judging from Hughes’ latest tweet: If you're not using helpful to explore Emacs functions, you're missing out! It's now possible to set, toggle and customise variables from within helpful! … Continue reading →

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Programmer Wisdom

Posted on 2017-12-11 by jcs

Sometimes it seems more like 6 seconds, but yes: Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. — Programming Wisdom (@CodeWisdom) December … Continue reading →

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After the Laptop

Posted on 2017-12-10 by jcs

John C. Dvorak, in a typical piece of clickbait for which he is famous, posits that Apple will soon abandon the Mac in favor of iPads and iPhones. His arguments are silly, of course, and are artfully demolished by the … Continue reading →

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End Your List Items with a Period

Posted on 2017-12-09 by jcs

Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder has helped me resolve a long standing conundrum. When I have a list like this I can never decide whether or not to end each list item with a period. I can adduce … Continue reading →

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Four LaTeX Mistakes

Posted on 2017-12-08 by jcs

From the excellent TeX Tips twitter feed I got a pointer to a useful article from John Cook. The article is about the top 4 LaTeX mistakes that Cook, a practicing mathematician, sees in books and articles. You might think … Continue reading →

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Followup on the Momento Database App

Posted on 2017-12-07 by jcs

If you enjoyed yesterday’s post on Sacha Chua’s “external brains” workflow, you’ll want to take a look at her followup post on her Momento-centered workflow for dealing with her daily, weekly, and monthly journals. If you’re like me, the technical … Continue reading →

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