Monthly Archives: June 2022

Blood Pressure and Tattoos

Posted on 2022-06-30 by jcs

If you’re over 10 years old, you’ve almost certainly had your blood pressure taken and it is even more likely that it was done with a blood pressure cuff, a technology that dates from the 1800s. Its age notwithstanding, it’s … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Diacritics in Emacs

Posted on 2022-06-29 by jcs

Back in the Old Days™ ASCII was king and it was pretty much impossible to faithfully render any language that required diacritical marks or non-Latin characters. So essentially you could render English but anything else was iffy. All that changed … Continue reading →

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Org Capture from Anywhere Within macOS

Posted on 2022-06-28 by jcs

One of the most useful workflow enhancements I’ve made to Emacs is the ability to do initiate an Org capture whether or not I’m in Emacs. That’s important to me because virtually every note I take is stored in Org. … Continue reading →

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The Lab Leak Denial Continues

Posted on 2022-06-27 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve written about the lab leak hypothesis and the continuing cover-up by everyone involved. If I put on my scientist’s hat, the only possible conclusion is what it’s always been: the evidence is inconclusive but … Continue reading →

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Capturing the Current File Location

Posted on 2022-06-26 by jcs

Marcin Borkowsi has a nice post on how to capture the current file’s location and copy it to the system clipboard. It’s just what you need for sharing information about data in a file with a colleague. By file location … Continue reading →

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Having a Per Contact Email Address

Posted on 2022-06-25 by jcs

I recently had my own experience of the Baader-Meinhoff Phenomena. The other day I read Karl Voit’s post from 2015 on having a separate (from) email address for each correspondent. It seemed a little odd to me. Why would I … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Notion

Posted on 2022-06-24 by jcs

Romain Slootmaekers has his own take on the Notion app: @notionhq is an org mode for the #emacs challenged. There I said it. — Romain Slootmaekers (@toolslive666) June 17, 2022 To be fair, Notion is a pretty nice app but … Continue reading →

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Hiding Some Org Subtrees

Posted on 2022-06-23 by jcs

The other day I wrote about Kaushal Modi’s post on Advice Combinators. Modi has another post that uses that information but the post is interesting in its own right. The problem is to fold (or collapse) headings having a certain … Continue reading →

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Paper Receipts at Drive-Thrus

Posted on 2022-06-22 by jcs

You may have noticed those signs at your local fast food store offering cash or a free meal if you fail to get a receipt after you pay. Once they’re pointed out, you see them everywhere. Of course, this has … Continue reading →

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Advice Combinators

Posted on 2022-06-21 by jcs

A really powerful Emacs feature for those who know a bit of Elisp in the ability to advise functions. Historically, the defadvice macro allowed the specification of code to run before, after, or around a function call. It’s really handy … Continue reading →

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