Monthly Archives: July 2021

More on Writing Academic Papers with Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-31 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Wouter Spekkink’s Org-mode setup for writing academic papers and promised to followup with Jonathan Bennett’s post on the same subject from a couple of years ago. As I started to prepare my post on … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Just Punishment

Posted on 2021-07-30 by jcs

Editorial Note For some reason, WordPress is refusing to post the embedded Tweet to Irreal’s database so I’m reduced to posting a link to it instead. This is yet another data point that makes me think I should suffer the … Continue reading →

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Writing Academic Papers With Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-29 by jcs

Wouter Spekkink has an interesting post on his workflow for writing academic papers using Emacs and Org-mode. It’s a long post because he wrote it for several different audiences. He starts with what Emacs and Org-mode are and why someone … Continue reading →

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How We Know the Open Office Concept Has Failed

Posted on 2021-07-28 by jcs

As you all know to your sorrow, Irreal has been railing against open offices for years. COVID-19 has done more than anything to put an end to this abomination but like a vampire or a zombie, the concept is surprising … Continue reading →

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Some Custom Commands from Prot

Posted on 2021-07-27 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has another video up in which he discusses a few of the commands he’s implemented to make his workflow easier. There’s no overriding theme, just some functions he’s written that ease his work in various ways. For … Continue reading →

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Ten More Emacs Tips

Posted on 2021-07-26 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Ten Useful Emacs Tips video from the Emacs-Elements YouTube channel. Now there’s a new video, 10 More Helpful Emacs Tips. Like the last video, you will probably be familiar with some … Continue reading →

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Logging mbsync Errors

Posted on 2021-07-25 by jcs

I’ve been using mu4e and mbsync for the last four years and love it. One of the things you discover early in your use of mbsync is that it loves spew messages into the minibuffer. That would be okay except … Continue reading →

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Medical Research Has Forfeited Our Trust

Posted on 2021-07-24 by jcs

Richard Smith over at The BMJ has a cute article that asks whether the time has come to assume medical research is frauduent until proven otherwise. I say “cute” because everyone paying attention knows that most published medical research is … Continue reading →

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Prot on Dired

Posted on 2021-07-23 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has a new video up about his customizations of dired. Dired is one of those things that you either love or ignore. Even I, a hardcore command line guy, use dired for the majority of my file operations. … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on the Reply-To Header

Posted on 2021-07-22 by jcs

I’ve long known about the Reply-To header in emails but I’ve always been unclear on exactly what it did and how it worked. Karl Voit has an excellent short blog post on using the Reply-To header in emails. It turns … Continue reading →

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