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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Why?
Words fail me. Why would anyone do this? WTF is wrong with IBM?! “JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML http://t.co/LLCzz2jTLz” pic.twitter.com/P2xyAo4W2c — Dan Harper (@DanHarper7) September 24, 2014
Moving The Custom Data Out of init.el
I never use the Emacs custom facility. It puts cryptic (alright, not too cryptic) entries into the custom-set-variables and custom-set-faces lists that are far away from all the rest of the customizations for a given package. Even worse, some packages—I’m … Continue reading
Where’s Your Emacs Initialization File?
TIL: The Emacs variable user-init-file contains the file path of the current initialization file. (via Daniel Ehrman).
Seriously Paper Free
I’ve written before that I’m rigorous about avoiding paper, pens, and pencils. I’m pretty good about doing everything digitally but nowhere near as good as these guys. Their feat is even more impressive when you realize that they’re doing it … Continue reading
Do As I Say…
An almost too delicious piece of hypocrisy.
What Happens When You Build In Backdoors?
They end up biting you in the butt. Matt Green’s post is a nice explanation of the FREAK exploit. You can read his post for the technical details, which, really, aren’t that interesting except that they show how making it … Continue reading
Customizing the Ace-Window Selection Face
Abo-abo has made a slight enhancement to ace-window that makes it possible to customize the face of the selection character of each window. Take a look at the example in abo-abo’s post to see what I mean. It makes the … Continue reading
Reproducible Research with Docker
Karl Voit retweets this Prove reproducibility, waste less time @mgymrek Gentle intro to Docker for reproducible research http://t.co/Dtp9BuHqiv #openscience — Jason Stirnaman (@jastirn) February 11, 2015 that points to this post from Stacy Konkiel that, in turn, tells us to … Continue reading
The Emacs Way
Howard Abrams over at howardism.org has a nice post on the The Tao of Emacs. His idea is to compare the Emacs workflow with that of other editors such as Vim. While Vim users have a shell-centric workflow where actions … Continue reading
Yet Another Convert
It appears that org2blog is on track for world domination. At least the world of Emacs and WordPress.