Monthly Archives: March 2020

Migrating from Emacs to Doom

Posted on 2020-03-21 by jcs

Jethro Kuan, whom I wrote about in regards to his work with smart notes, has another interesting post. This time it’s about his migration to Doom Emacs. There’s nothing unusual about that of course; I’ve written several posts about such … Continue reading →

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Data is Toxic Waste

Posted on 2020-03-20 by jcs

Over at Kaspersky, Cory Doctorow has an interesting article that argues that far from being the new oil, data is actually the new toxic waste. He begins by noting that any data you collect will, sooner or later, leak and … Continue reading →

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Interactive SQL Queries With Org-mode

Posted on 2020-03-19 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) always has interesting posts that often give me good ideas. Recently, he posted on using Org-mode for SQL. I haven’t had to deal with SQL for a long time and I was never a heavy user so … Continue reading →

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Surprising Unix Programs

Posted on 2020-03-18 by jcs

Doug McIlroy has another interesting post on TUHS. This time it’s about Unix programs that he found surprising. Many of the programs have been replaced by updated tools and are no longer used by most people but they all offer … Continue reading →

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Elfeed and Goto-address

Posted on 2020-03-17 by jcs

The other day I was reading an Elfeed entry and wanted to follow a link so with the point on the link, I typed Ctrl+c Ctrl+o as usual. Nothing happened. In Elfeed you can click on a link or press … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 68: Tramp and Org-publish

Posted on 2020-03-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video discusses maintaining a simple Web site with Emacs and Org-mode. Usually when I write about this sort of thing, it’s in the context of publishing to … Continue reading →

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Sort and Uniq

Posted on 2020-03-15 by jcs

I’ve been using Unix for 3 decades but I just learned something new about two of the basic Unix tools sort and uniq. If you’re not familiar with Unix command line tools, sort does just what it sounds like. You … Continue reading →

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COVID-19 and Data Caps

Posted on 2020-03-14 by jcs

One of the most annoying things that ISPs perpetrate on their customers is broadband data caps. It’s one of the main reasons Comcast is the company that everyone loves to hate but AT&T and others also have them. These companies … Continue reading →

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Blogging With (Only) Emacs

Posted on 2020-03-13 by jcs

If you’re an Emacser and a blogger, you will, of course, want to write and publish your posts from within Emacs. If you’re using WordPress, org2blog provides an excellent solution. You write your posts in Emacs and Org-mode as usual … Continue reading →

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Smart Notes

Posted on 2020-03-12 by jcs

I’m currently reading Sönke Ahrens’ How to Take Smart Notes, a book that describes Niklas Luhmann’s method of taking, storing, and retrieving notes about ideas he thought could be useful later. Luhmann kept his notes on what amounted to index … Continue reading →

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