Monthly Archives: November 2018

Cashless in Sweden

Posted on 2018-11-30 by jcs

I’ve written several times about China moving to a cashless society [1, 2, 3] and speculated about how long it would take for the West to move in similar directions. I didn’t realize that Sweden has advanced quite far down … Continue reading →

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The Org-ref Video Revisited

Posted on 2018-11-29 by jcs

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted that he has added the org-ref video to his YouTube play list: I added a video to a @YouTube playlist https://t.co/8e7HJa0gwx Introduction to org-ref — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) November 25, 2018 The video is three years … Continue reading →

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Nothing To Hide

Posted on 2018-11-28 by jcs

One of the tiresome and annoying things that the uninformed say about privacy issues is, “I have nothing to hide.” The idea, of course, is that, “I’m not a criminal or a terrorist so (1) no one will bother surveilling … Continue reading →

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Search and Replace

Posted on 2018-11-27 by jcs

Clemens Radermacher over at (with-emacs has a nice post that discusses various strategies for search and replacement. He considers searching and replacing both in single buffers and in multiple buffers or files. In each case, he looks at the “traditional” … Continue reading →

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More Trouble for Adtech

Posted on 2018-11-26 by jcs

If you’re like me and really, really hate Adtech and those who push it, I have some good news. After the GDPR went into effect, advertisers had to have your explicit, informed, and affirmative consent to collect personal information about … Continue reading →

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Running an Org-mode Block as Root

Posted on 2018-11-25 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a nice tip on how to run an Org-mode block as root. I’m pretty sure I saw this in one of Howard Abrams’ excellent videos but it’s useful enough to repeat. It’s really easy to do so … Continue reading →

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Another Blogging Solution

Posted on 2018-11-24 by jcs

If you enjoyed yesterday’s post about Daniel Gomez using Org-mode to write his thesis, perhaps you’ll also like his other offering, An Emacs Library for frictionless Blogging. Gomez publishes his blog on write.as, a publishing platform that allows you to … Continue reading →

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Writing a Thesis with Org Mode

Posted on 2018-11-23 by jcs

I keep seeing statements from the uninformed to the effect that you can’t use Org-mode for “serious” writing. First it was, “you can’t use Org-mode for journal articles.” After John Kitchin put the lie to that story, the naysayers moved … Continue reading →

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“Refactoring” Prose

Posted on 2018-11-22 by jcs

I’ve been working on a couple of prose—as opposed to code—files. One’s fairly short (\(≈3,500\) words). The other is a bit longer (\(≈11,000\) words). I realized the other day that I was probably punctuating quotes with question marks incorrectly so … Continue reading →

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The Emacs 26.1.90 Pretest

Posted on 2018-11-21 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced the availability of the Emacs 26.1.90 pretest. Eli is asking everyone to build and use it so that we can have an efficient test. If you’re a macOS user, you should definitely do so even if … Continue reading →

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