Monthly Archives: January 2016

TPP: A Warning

Posted on 2016-01-16 by jcs

#StopTPP Retweet this. Then retweet it again. We need this all over the Internet now. pic.twitter.com/x8rS8KfAoi https://t.co/7mOyNfoiIQ — Ruth E. Kastner (@rekastner) January 13, 2016

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Running Emacs as a Daemon

Posted on 2016-01-16 by jcs

M. J. Wall has an interesting post entitled How I Use Emacs. Wall’s workflow is a bit unusual—by which I mean different from mine—in that he spends a lot of time in the terminal even though he’s running GUI desktops … Continue reading →

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Org Schedules and Deadlines

Posted on 2016-01-15 by jcs

Ben Maughan has another great post in his Org mode series. This time, he augments his simple TODO list with schedules and deadlines. Org mode is famously flexible and that can make it hard to settle on a strategy for … Continue reading →

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Switch to Editing a File with SUDO

Posted on 2016-01-14 by jcs

Here’s a very useful tip super useful when you open a file that needs sudo perms to edit/save: https://t.co/7Kis1RXa1o i have that bound to C-x C-v #emacs — Sriram Thaiyar (@s_thai) January 6, 2016 especially if you administer your own … Continue reading →

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Diffie-Hellman Explained with Paint

Posted on 2016-01-13 by jcs

A cornerstone of modern secure communications is the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. It solves the problem of two communicators who may not know each other and haven’t previously agreed on a key to negotiate a secret key in public. This may … Continue reading →

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Using Yasnippet with Mu4e

Posted on 2016-01-12 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a followup to his great post on mu4e and Org-mode. Since he recently moved from Thunderbird to mu4e, there are still a few gaps in his email workflow. One of those is the … Continue reading →

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Research Paper Workflow

Posted on 2016-01-11 by jcs

In a comment on my post Why I Use Emacs, which was mostly a hat tip to Don Knuth’s observation about enjoying your tools, Nick Higham points us to his post on the same quote. Higham is a mathematician whose … Continue reading →

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Nothing to Hide? Lose your Curtains.

Posted on 2016-01-10 by jcs

“If you don’t have anything to hide, why do you have curtains on your bedroom window?” — Kontra (@counternotions) December 27, 2015 It may seem facile but it makes a legitimate point: there’s a difference between secrecy and privacy. As … Continue reading →

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Org 8.3.3

Posted on 2016-01-09 by jcs

Bastien Guerry announces that he has released Org mode 8.3.3. I've released #emacs #orgmode 8.3.3 (bugfix release). Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) January 8, 2016 It’s a bug release so you should definitely upgrade. If you’re like me, you’ll get … Continue reading →

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Eazy Gnuplot Cookbook

Posted on 2016-01-09 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis I found this gnuplot cookbook companion for eazy-gnuplot. I really like gnuplot and its ability to produce a large variety of excellent plots. Unfortunately, I don’t use it often enough to internalize its documentation and it’s always … Continue reading →

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