Monthly Archives: April 2018

File Name Conventions and Tagging Trees

Posted on 2018-04-30 by jcs

A couple of days ago, Karl Voit gave a really great talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2018. It was entitled The Advantages of File Name Conventions and Tagging, which is pretty much self-explanatory except for the tagging part. The first part … Continue reading →

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Emacs Video: Play Emacs Like an Instrument

Posted on 2018-04-29 by jcs

Alain Lafon gave an excellent talk on using Emacs like a virtuoso, which, happily, was captured on video and is available for everyone to enjoy. The talk isn’t really an introduction to Emacs for n00bs—although it could be used for … Continue reading →

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Documents and Presentations with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-28 by jcs

John Goerzen has another post in his coming back to Emacs series. This time he looks at writing documents and preparing presentations with Emacs and Org mode. It’s an elementary discussion but there’s plenty that will be useful to newcomers … Continue reading →

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Org 9.1.12

Posted on 2018-04-27 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that there’s a new version of Org available: #emacs #orgmode 9.1.12 is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) April 26, 2018 If you’re tracking the Org repository, the new version is already there.

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Happy Birthday Irreal

Posted on 2018-04-26 by jcs

Today is the 7th anniversary of Irreal as a WordPress blog1. Irreal started out as a way to make occasional posts about Scheme, Common Lisp, and a couple of other Lispy subjects. It’s evolved into a daily blog that considers … Continue reading →

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Programs that Program

Posted on 2018-04-25 by jcs

I’ve written before about Eric Raymond’s (esr) UPSide project that aims to build an open source UPS that has reasonable performance and sensible operation. Esr’s latest post is especially interesting to me because it uses one of my favorite techniques: … Continue reading →

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Enough With Smartphone Addiction Already

Posted on 2018-04-24 by jcs

The new luddites are ever with us, of course, but I must say that the constant harping on smartphone addiction is becoming tiresome. Actually, it became tiresome some time ago; now it’s infuriating. I was saddened to see that Tony … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 48: Silver Searcher

Posted on 2018-04-23 by jcs

The other day, Mike Zamansky made a post that I really liked. It was about his grading workflow and how he tries to lessen the tedium by making it as efficient as possible. As many of you know, I enjoy … Continue reading →

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The Trouble With OneNote and Evernote

Posted on 2018-04-22 by jcs

In a post that serves as a nice complement to my recent musings on Open Source Tools, Karl Voit notes that Microsoft is discontinuing OneNote. Although he’s too polite to say so directly, if you’re a OneNote user, you have … Continue reading →

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Org Babel Recipes

Posted on 2018-04-21 by jcs

I find that one of the most useful features of the phenomenally useful Org mode is the Babel code block capability. You have to have facility with at least one programming language, of course, but this is Irreal so that’s … Continue reading →

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