Category Archives: General

Building Presentations

Posted on 2017-09-27 by jcs

Oskar Wickström has a nice post on automating the build of your technical presentation. Wickström likes to develop his code examples and diagrams concurrently with the text of the presentation. That means that the code and diagrams can change often … Continue reading →

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A Graphviz Go by

Posted on 2017-09-26 by jcs

As I wrote the other day, the Graphviz dot language for drawing graphs is pretty simple and easy to learn but if, like me, you don’t use it very often, it’s easy to forget the details. There’s an excellent manual … Continue reading →

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WeChat and Privacy

Posted on 2017-09-25 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the “digital life.” By that I mean moving as many chores and record keeping tasks as possible into the digital realm—in particular, onto my iPhone. Thus I pay almost all … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 37: Treemacs

Posted on 2017-09-24 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up. This time he discusses the Treemacs file browser. The idea is to recreate file browser side tab that editors like Atom popularized. You can watch the video to see its features and how … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup

Posted on 2017-09-23 by jcs

I’ve been following a tweet discussion between Karl Voit and several others over the relative merits of light weight markup languages. You can get a feel for the arguments by expanding the following: For #orgmode as a markup (w/o Emacs) … Continue reading →

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Burying Power Cables

Posted on 2017-09-22 by jcs

After the recent visit by Irma, I idly wondered why the electric utilities don’t simply bury the power cables. After all, the cables in my development are buried so it’s certainly possible. As with most such questions, the answer is … Continue reading →

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Org Entities

Posted on 2017-09-21 by jcs

Today I saw this tweet about Org entities: M-x org-entities-help is your #orgmode buddy — Olivier Berger (@olberger) September 21, 2017 I didn’t realize how much I needed org-entities-help. It’s pretty easy to enter many of the common Unicode characters … Continue reading →

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The New Luddites Strike Again

Posted on 2017-09-20 by jcs

What do you get when you mate an Apple hater with a luddite? This. If you’re one of those people who yearns for earlier, simpler times when there were no cell phones, feel free to throw yours away. Feel free … Continue reading →

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Graphviz and Org Mode

Posted on 2017-09-19 by jcs

Over at The Joy of Programming there’s a nice introductory post on using Graphviz’s dot command to draw graphs and how you can make the process almost interactive by calling dot from within an Org source block. The dot command … Continue reading →

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Orgmode 9.1.1

Posted on 2017-09-18 by jcs

Bastien sends word that there’s a new version of Org out: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.1 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) September 17, 2017 If, like me, you’re OCD about keeping up to date with Org, it’s already in Melpa. … Continue reading →

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