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Monthly Archives: November 2019
Digital Payments in India
I’ve written several times about how the Chinese, through apps like WeChat, can pay for almost anything with their smartphones (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). One of the things that have helped make digital payments ubiquitous in China is the … Continue reading
Project and Org Mode
Karl Voit has an interesting post in which he explores ways of defining projects in Org-mode. Note that by “project” Voit doesn’t mean the type of object handled by an app such as Projectile, but a set of tasks meant … Continue reading
PayPal Says the Death of Cash Is Here
I recently wrote a couple of posts, here and here, about how we are moving to an essentially cashless society and the problems and backlash it’s bringing. The TL;DR is that it’s now possible to live your life pretty much … Continue reading
What Would a Digital Society Look Like?
Those of you who have been following along for a while, know that I try to live a digital lifestyle as much as I can. In the US, the meaning of “digital lifestyle” is essentially trivial. It means I eschew … Continue reading
The Horrors of Word
From Eric Fraga we have this long and screamingly funny Twitter thread about the horrors of using Word. Why I use #Emacs with #orgmode and #LaTeX:https://t.co/jUwo8EKyT1 The whole thread is absolutely hilarious! — éric 🇪🇺 #FBPE (@ericsfraga) November 5, 2019 … Continue reading
Moving Icons Between Smartphone Screens
A year ago, I wrote about a trick I learned from Karl Voit’s Twitter feed on how to move the iOS cursor. It’s been extraordinarily useful to me and, I’m sure, others. Now, Voit has retweeted another very useful trick: … Continue reading
Searching Your Personal Data
I’m an inveterate data collector and recorder. I keep records of everything to the point that my wife was making fun of me last week when I used my phone to recall a piece of obscure information that I’d stored … Continue reading
Emacs Markdown Cheatsheet
A couple of weeks ago when writing about Mike Zamansky’s video on Markdown, I noted that Emacs had excellent support for Markdown. The other day I saw this Tweet pointing at a Markdown cheatsheet: One of our favourites: Emacs Markdown-mode … Continue reading
Inline Tasks
There an interesting thread on Emacs-Orgmode about the state of the art for using Org-mode to take minutes of meetings. That’s a need that many of us have so you may find it worthwhile taking a look at the thread. … Continue reading
A Suggestion for a New Smartphone Function
A couple of weeks ago, I asked what new functions we could add to our smartphones. Kontra has a suggestion: Which would you prefer to have in iPhone 13 Pro cameras? a) 4X telephoto b) Spectrometer (for instant display of … Continue reading