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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Libraries
Can you even imagine trying to invent public libraries in 2015? — Parker Higgins (@xor) August 21, 2015 You can almost hear the outraged wailing and dire predictions about the end of the publishing industry. It’s a knife aimed at … Continue reading
From WordPress to Org
Part of the reason that I moved Irreal from Blogger to WordPress was that I wanted to use org2blog to write and publish my posts directly from Emacs. As a result, every post on Irreal started life as—and is maintained … Continue reading
Patching the Production Server
Fixing a bug in production pic.twitter.com/saD82hLacz — Practical Developer (@ThePracticalDev) August 11, 2015 (via Jean-Philippe Paradis)
Literate DevOps Video
I’ve mentioned Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps before. I think of it as a sort of reproducible research where you record the steps you use to create a deployment image including the code for each step. Abrams does this … Continue reading
SBCL 1.2.15
The new SBCL (version 1.2.15) is out and ready for download. This release fixes some bugs, updates to ASDF 3.1.5, and makes some small improvements to PROGN and DEFCLASS. See the NEWS page for the details. As usual, I compiled … Continue reading
Move Back to Last Misspelling
One of the handiest things I’ve learned from Pragmatic Emacs is using 【Ctrl+;】 to cycle through possible corrections for the last misspelled word. It’s especially handy because the point doesn’t have to be on or at the end of the … Continue reading
File Local Variables in an Org File
A nice tip from Artur Malabarba: It’s often convenient to use file local variables in your Emacs files. It provides a way of setting certain Emacs variables—mode, fill-column, comment-column, etc.—on a per file basis. There’s a problem, though, when using … Continue reading
Pages in Emacs
Eric James Michael Ritz over at One More Game-Dev and Programming Blog has a nice post on how and why to use pages in Emacs. Pages in Emacs are text separated by form feeds (0xC)1. As Ritz explains, it’s easy … Continue reading
Org Mode and Pandoc
Bsag over at But She’s a Girl has a nice post on using Org mode and Pandoc. She says that she’s abandoned Markup in favor of Org mode because, among other things, it provides a rich set facilities for handling … Continue reading