Monthly Archives: September 2017

Org Mode as an Exocortex

Posted on 2017-09-30 by jcs

Jeff Terrell has an interesting video up that considers Org mode’s role as an exocortex. By “exocortex” he means (roughly) “memory external to your brain that helps you remember things you don’t need to be thinking about right now.” The … Continue reading →

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Emacs Rocks! #17: Magit

Posted on 2017-09-29 by jcs

Magnar Sveen is back with another Emacs Rocks!. This time he discusses Magit. He starts by saying how Magit gives you all the information you need without having to invoke several git commands on the command line. Then he suggests … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Org Entities

Posted on 2017-09-28 by jcs

Last week I wrote Olivier Berger’s tweet pointing at org-entities-help and remarked what a boon it was to me because I can never remember the names of encodings. Yesterday, John Kitchin commented that he has written a bit of code … Continue reading →

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Building Presentations

Posted on 2017-09-27 by jcs

Oskar Wickström has a nice post on automating the build of your technical presentation. Wickström likes to develop his code examples and diagrams concurrently with the text of the presentation. That means that the code and diagrams can change often … Continue reading →

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A Graphviz Go by

Posted on 2017-09-26 by jcs

As I wrote the other day, the Graphviz dot language for drawing graphs is pretty simple and easy to learn but if, like me, you don’t use it very often, it’s easy to forget the details. There’s an excellent manual … Continue reading →

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WeChat and Privacy

Posted on 2017-09-25 by jcs

As most of you know, I’m a big fan of the “digital life.” By that I mean moving as many chores and record keeping tasks as possible into the digital realm—in particular, onto my iPhone. Thus I pay almost all … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 37: Treemacs

Posted on 2017-09-24 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has a new video up. This time he discusses the Treemacs file browser. The idea is to recreate file browser side tab that editors like Atom popularized. You can watch the video to see its features and how … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup

Posted on 2017-09-23 by jcs

I’ve been following a tweet discussion between Karl Voit and several others over the relative merits of light weight markup languages. You can get a feel for the arguments by expanding the following: For #orgmode as a markup (w/o Emacs) … Continue reading →

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Burying Power Cables

Posted on 2017-09-22 by jcs

After the recent visit by Irma, I idly wondered why the electric utilities don’t simply bury the power cables. After all, the cables in my development are buried so it’s certainly possible. As with most such questions, the answer is … Continue reading →

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Org Entities

Posted on 2017-09-21 by jcs

Today I saw this tweet about Org entities: M-x org-entities-help is your #orgmode buddy — Olivier Berger (@olberger) September 21, 2017 I didn’t realize how much I needed org-entities-help. It’s pretty easy to enter many of the common Unicode characters … Continue reading →