Monthly Archives: December 2018

The Yoda of Silicon Valley

Posted on 2018-12-21 by jcs

The New York Times has a nice article on Don Knuth entitled The Yoda of Silicon Valley that talks briefly about his life and contributions to Computer Science. It’s been all over Internet but if you haven’t had a chance … Continue reading →

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Org to Dotfiles

Posted on 2018-12-20 by jcs

Back in 2016, I wrote about Haoyang Xu’s idea of keeping all your dotfiles in a single Org-mode file that tangles the individual dotfiles to their proper place in your directory structure. This allows you to write the dotfiles in … Continue reading →

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Scrolling with Emacs

Posted on 2018-12-19 by jcs

Back when I was still a Vim user, I would occasionally try Emacs because of its nice features. It never stuck—until it did—because some of its behavior seemed too alien. The most prominent example of that was the scrolling. By … Continue reading →

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Proced on the Mac

Posted on 2018-12-18 by jcs

Four and a half years ago I wrote about proced and Mickey’s excellent post about it. Sadly, it didn’t work on the Mac so I forgot about it until I saw this tweet from psnebc: #emacs #proced alternative to #htop … Continue reading →

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An Example of an Engineering Notebook

Posted on 2018-12-17 by jcs

Antonin Januska has posted a video showing how he set up and uses an engineering notebook. I’m always interested in how people implement engineering/scientific notebooks and Januska’s video is especially interesting because he implemented his as an Org-mode file. His … Continue reading →

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China Backs Plan S

Posted on 2018-12-16 by jcs

The Open Access movement got some good news when China announced they would back Plan S. Plan S is the European-led program to make all publicly funded research freely available upon publication in a journal. One would hardly think this … Continue reading →

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Tell Me Again Why You’re Still Using Windows

Posted on 2018-12-15 by jcs

Microsoft has been caught again spying on their users. Microsoft, of course, claims it’s all a big misunderstanding. They explain, Facebook like, that if you don’t want to share your data you have to adjust this obscure setting involving diagnostic … Continue reading →

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Is Org the Borg?

Posted on 2018-12-14 by jcs

I laughed when I saw this tweet: omg you guys .org -> .tex -> .pdf is a great work-flow for sharing information. It’s like #inception though – first #emacs became my OS and now everything I create in Emacs is … Continue reading →

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The Default Emacs Key Bindings

Posted on 2018-12-13 by jcs

Despite being a Vi/Vim user for over two decades when I switched to using Emacs, I learned the default key bindings and never looked back. It was a choice that worked well for me and I’ve never regretted it. That’s … Continue reading →

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SSL Update

Posted on 2018-12-12 by jcs

SSL appears to be working now. Sorry for all the confusion.

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