Monthly Archives: May 2021

Science and Politics

Posted on 2021-05-21 by jcs

Via John Cook, we have this thought for the day from John Barry: “When you mix politics with science, you get politics.” — John Barry — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) May 18, 2021 We can all agree that politics is … Continue reading →

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Org 9.4.6 Released

Posted on 2021-05-20 by jcs

Bastien has announced that Org-mode 9.4.6 has been released. It’s a bug release and is planned to be the last release before version 9.5. The easiest way to get it is from Org ELPA.

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Tools for Your Development Environment

Posted on 2021-05-19 by jcs

Chris Rose over at offby1.net has an interesting post on tools to enhance development environments. Other than the fact that one of his recommendations is Doom Emacs, the post isn’t really Emacs-centric. Rather, he considers a series of standalone tools … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Web Browsing

Posted on 2021-05-18 by jcs

I’ve written many times that almost all my computer time is spent in Emacs and my browser (Safari). What all us everything-in-Emacs devotees want is to do away with using an external browser. We yak yak yak about eww but … Continue reading →

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Ivy To Selectrum

Posted on 2021-05-17 by jcs

I’ve written many times how important the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper package is to my workflow. Other than Org-mode, it is the most important package in my Emacs panoply. Even so, it does so much that I don’t make use of all its … Continue reading →

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Protesilaos Stavrou on Notmuch

Posted on 2021-05-16 by jcs

As all of you know by now, I’m a big fan of mu/mu4e for handling email. For me, one of its major attractions is that it runs in Emacs. For those of us who prefer to do as much as … Continue reading →

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Writing A Programming Book

Posted on 2021-05-15 by jcs

Juan Manuel Tirado is a programmer who decided to write a book on Go. I’m not a Go programmer so I can’t comment intelligently on the book other than to bring it to your attention. What I can comment on … Continue reading →

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Distraction Free Writing

Posted on 2021-05-14 by jcs

Phil Newton does a lot of writing. He’s written a book and has a blog and does all his writing in Org mode. That sounds pretty much like me but unlike me, Newton likes to write in what he calls … Continue reading →

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A Year With Emacs

Posted on 2021-05-13 by jcs

Jakub Kadlčík just finished a year with Emacs. Before that, he was a Vim user for 10 years. He felt that he had reached “peak learning” with Vim except for writing plugins, which VimL made unattractive to him. Emacs’ extension … Continue reading →

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Nick Higham’s Blogging Workflow

Posted on 2021-05-12 by jcs

Nick Higham is a working mathematician so his blog has a heavy mathematical content and that means that he’s very concerned with integrating LaTeX into his workflow. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy because he writes his posts in org-mode and publishes … Continue reading →

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