Category Archives: General

Calc Update

Posted on 2015-04-24 by jcs

I’ve written before that I’ve started learning Calc. That last post was after I’d worked through the introductory material (which is, itself, quite dense). I’ve now completed the first three sections of the tutorial covering Basic Tutorial (RPN, stack, algebraic … Continue reading →

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Text in Academic Writing

Posted on 2015-04-23 by jcs

If you’re an academic in the sciences, you have an advantage over your colleagues in the liberal arts: you can write in LaTeX using any editor you choose1. Your document is in plain text and can be operated on by … Continue reading →

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Two From Xah

Posted on 2015-04-22 by jcs

Xah Lee has a couple of useful tutorials on the finer points of ibuffer and the isearch family. Every Emacs user is familiar with forward and backward incremental search, 【Ctrl+s】and 【Ctrl+r】, but there are some more specialized commands as well. … Continue reading →

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An Accidental Theme

Posted on 2015-04-21 by jcs

Over at the Google+ Emacs Community, Quan Ta has an interesting post about an “accidental theme” that he discovered when he byte-compiled his .cask directory. He said it looked like the solarized-light theme but with colors that were a bit … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit’s Digital Workflow

Posted on 2015-04-20 by jcs

I am, I must admit, fascinated by Karl Voit’s work in capturing, storing, and indexing the digital files that record his life. I’ve covered some aspects of this before and will doubtless cover other aspects that I find interesting. Today, … Continue reading →

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The Setup Interview Bruce Schneier

Posted on 2015-04-19 by jcs

The Setup has posted an interview with Bruce Schneier. Their interviews always ask just four questions: Who are you, and what do you do? What hardware do you use? And what software? What would be your dream setup? It’s interesting … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday

Posted on 2015-04-18 by jcs

Via Karl Voit: Happy Birthday to the Word “Hack”.

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Emacs 24.5

Posted on 2015-04-18 by jcs

I finally got around to compiling and installing Emacs 24.5. I forgot about the extra bit you have to do to enable eww on OS X, so I had to rebuild it. I’ve blogged about how to build Emacs with … Continue reading →

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Sad But True

Posted on 2015-04-17 by jcs

Seems indicative of shifting expectations/demands that SICP used to be freshman course book; now it's considered "super advanced reading" :/ — Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) March 26, 2015

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An Interview with Linus on the 10Th Anniversary of Git

Posted on 2015-04-17 by jcs

On the tenth anniversary of Git, Linux.com has a nice interview with Linus. In it they explore the reason for Git’s creation, its supposed opaqueness to ordinary users, its success, and its future. Although many already know the story, Linus … Continue reading →

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