Monthly Archives: December 2023

Org Mode Island?

Posted on 2023-12-31 by jcs

I ran across this post from Jeremy Friesen that was in response to another post by Jack Baty. The TL;DR is that Baty has been doing more and more of his writing in Org mode and this somehow makes him … Continue reading →

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Marking The Active Window Redux

Posted on 2023-12-30 by jcs

Just the other day I wrote about James Dyer’s solution for marking the active window so that it’s immediately obvious which window has focus. In that post, I said that although Dyer’s solution was a good one, I thought that … Continue reading →

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Developing In Difficult Places

Posted on 2023-12-29 by jcs

Over at Bite Code! there’s a post that I found really interesting. It’s about doing software deveopment or training in difficult places. “Difficult places” means places lacking the usual computing infrastructure or having a hostile political or geographical environment. The … Continue reading →

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Not A Text Editor

Posted on 2023-12-28 by jcs

Here at Irreal, the minions and I are still decompressing from Christmas so this will be another short post. Troy Fletcher has a silly and lighthearted video on Emacs not being a text editor. The TL;DR is that Emacs is … Continue reading →

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Marking The Active Window

Posted on 2023-12-27 by jcs

I use the default mode line and am mostly happy with it except that the difference between the mode line of the active window and the other windows can be hard to discern. I know I could make myself a … Continue reading →

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Custom Emacs Command Line Flags

Posted on 2023-12-26 by jcs

I’m writing this on Christmas day so the festivities mean that I don’t have as much time as usual available for writing this post. Happily, I came across this post by Norman Walsh in which he mentions a fact that … Continue reading →

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Holding NSA’s Feet To The Fire

Posted on 2023-12-25 by jcs

Senator Ron Wyden is on a tear. It’s probably not fair to describe him as the only legislator fighting for the fourth amendment in the face of fierce opposition from various law enforcement agencies but he’s certainly the most prominent. … Continue reading →

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A GTD Workflow

Posted on 2023-12-24 by jcs

Gopar, over at the Goparism YouTube channel has posted a video on how he uses Emacs Org mode and Org Roam as his GTD framework. For those not familiar with GTD it’s a methodology developed by David Allen in his … Continue reading →

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PDFs And Diffs In Emacs

Posted on 2023-12-23 by jcs

Derek Taylor over at DistroTube has a nice introduction to reading PDFs and doing diffs from within Emacs. As Taylor says, almost all of us have standalone applications to do these things but even if you don’t belong to the … Continue reading →

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Writing LaTeX In Emacs

Posted on 2023-12-22 by jcs

As many of you know, I have a long standing fascination with taking class notes in LaTeX using Emacs. This despite the fact that my days in the classroom are long over. Just a week ago, I wrote about laas, … Continue reading →

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