Monthly Archives: January 2021

Org To Beamer

Posted on 2021-01-21 by jcs

One of the easiest and most popular methods of making presentation slides is reveal.js, which exports your slides as HTML so that you can display them with any browser. Sometimes, though, you want to produce your slides as PDFs and … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Symbolics and Space Cadet Keyboard

Posted on 2021-01-20 by jcs

If you’re a certain type of geek, especially a certain type of Emacs geek, you likely share a dream with the rest of your tribe: having a Symbolics or a Space Cadet keyboard. I’ve written about that before but now … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

System Crafters: Using Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-19 by jcs

David Wilson has another video up in his series on configuring and using mu4e to handle email from within Emacs. His past videos have already covered the hard parts of configuring mu4e and mbsync. The current video is about using … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Knuth on Writing

Posted on 2021-01-18 by jcs

Philip Kiely has an interesting interview with Don Knuth that concentrates on the writing aspects of Knuth’s career. Everyone knows about The Art of Computer Programming (AOCP) and TeX but Kiely’s interview drills down on why things are the way … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Note Making

Posted on 2021-01-17 by jcs

Anne-Laure Le Cunff over at Ness Labs has an interesting article on the difference between note taking and note making. One way of thinking of the difference is to consider note making as active note taking. Rather than simply record … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Yesterday’s Date

Posted on 2021-01-16 by jcs

One of my daily tasks involves making a log entry in which I have to use yesterday’s date. That’s pretty easy with Org dates but the dates in the log don’t have the usual Org markup of square or angle … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Chris Wellons on State Machines

Posted on 2021-01-15 by jcs

As I’ve mentioned a few times, I love programming state machines. I spent many years writing software for communications software using odd protocols. The easiest way of implementing those protocols was almost always to use a state machine. Once you … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper

Posted on 2021-01-14 by jcs

Literate Programming. Back in 1984 when Knuth published his paper proposing Literate Programming, he believed that the concept would take over the programming world. I remember him saying that companies that failed to adopt Literate Programming would soon fall behind … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Setting Up Mu4e

Posted on 2021-01-13 by jcs

Yesterday’s post discussed David Wilson’s video on setting up and using authinfo. In that video, Wilson mentioned his videos on setting up mu4e and how authinfo fit into configuring mu4e and mbsync. Those videos are also worth watching. The first … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Setting Up and Using Authinfo With Emacs

Posted on 2021-01-12 by jcs

Once you start moving more and more of your computing tasks into Emacs, you’re going to need a way of handling passwords. Mail is the canonical example but there are also things like blogging sites, ftp servers and other functions … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment