Category Archives: Blogging

Possible Posting Hiatus

Posted on 2017-09-08 by jcs

As many of you know, The Irreal International Headquarters is in Tampa, Florida. Hurricane Irma is currently bearing down on us although at the moment it doesn’t look as if we’ll get a direct hit. Nonetheless, it’s likely that we’ll … Continue reading →

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Blogs and Journals in Science

Posted on 2017-05-02 by jcs

Blog readers—and since you’re reading this, that includes you—appear to having been doing something right. At least according to Daniel Lakens, an experimental psychologist who publishes the blog The 20% Statistician. In an interesting post, Lakens argues that blogs have … Continue reading →

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Irreal Is 6

Posted on 2017-04-26 by jcs

Today Irreal, in its current incarnation, is six years old. For the last 5 years I’ve posted pretty much everyday. In its original incarnation as a Blogger blog, I had in mind that Irreal would be mostly about Scheme and … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Irreal

Posted on 2016-04-26 by jcs

Today is the 5th birthday of Irreal.org. The blog, in its Blogger incarnation, is a couple of years older but 5 years ago today Irreal opened for business at http://irreal.org/blog as a WordPress blog. Things haven’t worked out quite as … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Org Mode and Nikola

Posted on 2016-04-22 by jcs

I’ve written before about using Jekyll as a blogging engine (1, 2). It’s a nice solution but it’s not the only one. Mike Zamansky was using Jekyll but didn’t like that he had to maintain a Ruby development environment on … Continue reading →

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Securing Your WordPress Site

Posted on 2016-03-12 by jcs

About three years ago, after Irreal was hacked, I published a short article on securing WordPress sites that pointed to a WordPress article on ways to harden a WordPress site. Recently, John Stevens wrote me to say that he and … Continue reading →

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Org-Page

Posted on 2015-02-13 by jcs

If you’re looking for a static-page blogging engine that you can post to from Emacs, you should take a look at Calum MacRae’s post on blogging with org-page. MacRae writes about his setup in detail so that you can set … Continue reading →

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The Answer to Blogging Friction

Posted on 2015-02-05 by jcs

Although regular readers are familiar with it, here is a quick review of the history of my blogging work flow. In my old blog on Blogger, I was already using Org-mode but I exported the Org to HTML and pasted … Continue reading →

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Maintenance

Posted on 2014-12-24 by jcs

Irreal’s hosting provider is planning some server maintenace from [2014-12-26 Fri] to [2014-12-29 Mon]. Somewhere in that interval, the server that Irreal runs on will be upgraded. The hosting provider does not expect any outages during this process but warns … Continue reading →

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Recent Outage

Posted on 2014-10-01 by jcs

Irreal was offline for a few hours last night and early this morning. The problem was that spammers and their bots had been hitting the site so much that Irreal’s hosting provider suspended the site until we could get it … Continue reading →

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