Monthly Archives: June 2020

Elfeed for Videos

Posted on 2020-06-20 by jcs

As you all know, I’m a huge fan of Elfeed. It’s made reading my feeds a breeze, works just the way I want it to, and, of course, runs inside Emacs. You probably also know that I’m not a Google … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Is Dark Mode a Good Idea?

Posted on 2020-06-19 by jcs

Those pesky Irreal minions are at it again. They can’t let a Friday go by without trying to bring up the light-mode/dark-mode debate. Alas, they’ve succeeded again. After the last time, I had a discussion with them but they were … Continue reading →

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Monitors

Posted on 2020-06-18 by jcs

Nikita Prokopov has a very informative post about computer monitors and how they influence our programming experiences. It’s a long post that begins with an excellent tutorial on how monitor resolution effects the display of characters and the various mitigating … Continue reading →

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Fixing Email

Posted on 2020-06-17 by jcs

From time to time I read a piece by some pundit proclaiming that email is dead; that it’s been supplanted by texting, Facebook, and other social media. Such pieces are, of course, ridiculous but it is true that the usual … Continue reading →

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Another One Falls

Posted on 2020-06-16 by jcs

MIT has just ended negotiations with Elsevier on a new journals contract. Many institutions are doing that but MIT and the University of California, which also ended negotiations, are in the top tier of research institutions in the US and … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 73: Ripgrep

Posted on 2020-06-15 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another great video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about using ripgrep to do some refactoring of his blog. The problem is that for reasons explained in the video, he upgraded Hugo—his blog software—and … Continue reading →

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Org Table Export

Posted on 2020-06-14 by jcs

Here’s an interesting tip from John D. Cook’s TeX and Typography Twitter feed: You can export an org-mode table as LaTeX with the Emacs command org-table-export. — TeX and Typography (@TeXtip) June 12, 2020 The idea is that you can … Continue reading →

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Consistent Documents Redux

Posted on 2020-06-13 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Recently, someone tweeted a link to Mike Hamrick’s terrific video on making consistent documents with Emacs and Org-mode. I’ve written about the video before but having rewatched it, I decided that it was worth revisiting. There’s … Continue reading →

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A Graphviz Go-By

Posted on 2020-06-12 by jcs

When I want a graph like this: my go-to tool is the dot command from Graphviz. There’s a simple input language to describe a graph that’s easy to write by hand but most often I generate the input programmatically. It’s … Continue reading →

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Emacs Comment Functions

Posted on 2020-06-11 by jcs

Bozhidar Batsov over at Emacs Redux has taken some time off from his open source projects such as rubocop, nrepl, cider, prelude, projectile, and many others to write a useful post on the various Emacs commenting commands. It turns out … Continue reading →

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