Monthly Archives: March 2018

Radio Buttons and Devops in Org Mode

Posted on 2018-03-11 by jcs

Regular readers know that I am very enamored of Howard Abrams’ excellent post and video on literate devops. It’s not that my duties include devops; rather it’s that the methods he demonstrates are applicable to a wide range of problems … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on 2018-03-10 by jcs

As I do every year on this date, I’d like to wish Pink Floyd’s iconic album, Dark Side of the Moon, a happy birthday. The album was released 45 years ago today and went on to be one of the … Continue reading →

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MathJax Tips

Posted on 2018-03-09 by jcs

Over at John Cook’s TeX Tips there’s a pointer to a very nice MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference. It’s especially handy for those who don’t use \(\mathrm{\LaTeX}\) all the time but occasionally want to include a bit of mathematics … Continue reading →

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Ten Tools for Academics

Posted on 2018-03-08 by jcs

Over at Academia Obscura they have a list of 10 essential tools for academics and PhD students. It’s a useful list but my immediate reaction upon reading it was that you can do all that with Emacs. Well, you can’t … Continue reading →

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The Smartphone as Part of Your Mind

Posted on 2018-03-07 by jcs

Karina Vold over at the Sigularity Hub has a thought provoking article on the extent to which your smartphone is part of your mind. At first, it seems like a silly idea except in a trivial sense. But as Vold … Continue reading →

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A Return to Emacs

Posted on 2018-03-06 by jcs

John Goerzen has returned to Emacs after a decade of being a Vim user. His reason for doing so is Org mode. If all you want from your editor is to edit, Vim is hard to beat: it’s fast, loads … Continue reading →

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A Sound Investment

Posted on 2018-03-05 by jcs

How much would you pay for Org mode? $10? $25? $100? More? Well fortunately you don’t have to pay anything at all because, of course, Org mode is free software in all senses of the word “free.” Still, free software … Continue reading →

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UPSide Project Update

Posted on 2018-03-04 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Eric Raymond’s (esr) project to design and build an open source UPS power supply. Esr has posted an update on the project. The TL;DR is that they now have all the necessary engineers … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 44: A PDF-view Workflow

Posted on 2018-03-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series available for viewing. This video demonstrates the PDF-view workflow that he developed to help him deal with applications to an honors program at Hunter College. I really like this video … Continue reading →

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Update 2

Posted on 2018-03-03 by jcs

Still no word back from the hosting provider. They’re probably trying to have a life so I don’t expect to hear from them until Monday. In the meantime, I’m going to manually paste the HTML for posts into the WordPress … Continue reading →

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