Monthly Archives: January 2024

Directory Local Variables

Posted on 2024-01-31 by jcs

Recently, someone posted a link to Artur Malabarba’s old blog. Sadly, Malabarba no longer posts to it but it still has a lot of good and relevant information. The link was to a Malabarba post about directory local variables. The … Continue reading →

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A Factory For Ideas

Posted on 2024-01-30 by jcs

The title of this post was coined by Arthur C. Clarke to describe the famed Bell Laboratories facility at Murray Hill, New Jersey. If you’re in the software industry and like me, you probably think of Bell Labs as the … Continue reading →

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Two Org Mode Tips

Posted on 2024-01-29 by jcs

Nicolas Martyanoff has a nifty post that discusses some tips for dealing with Org headlines. There are actually three tips but I adopted only two of them. The first involves what happens when you type Ctrl+Return on a headline. By … Continue reading →

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Dired Async Mode

Posted on 2024-01-28 by jcs

James Dyer has another useful Emacs discovery. His workflow often involves copying large files, which he does from Emacs using Dired. Even though he’s configured Emacs to use rsync for Dired copies, the transfer can still take some time and … Continue reading →

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Bookmark+

Posted on 2024-01-27 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a new video that takes a quick look at Bookmark+. It serves the same purpose as the builtin bookmark application but is extended in many ways. I’ve been using it for many years ever since abo abo … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Elisp 17

Posted on 2024-01-26 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back is back with part 2 of his thesaurus project. In his last video he started a project to explore using Web APIs. He chose to implement a thesaurus to illustrate the concepts and used the Merriam-Webster … Continue reading →

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Emacs For Writers

Posted on 2024-01-25 by jcs

Fedora Magazine has an interesting article in which a journalist, odisej, discovers using Emacs as his writing tool. His article is a sort of perfect case study because odisej has no real technical background so his take on using Emacs … Continue reading →

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NASA Coding Standards

Posted on 2024-01-24 by jcs

In my A Fatal C Error post I talked about how hard it is to write error-free C code. Any large C program is almost guaranteed to have undetected errors. That’s true of all languages—TeX is famous for being the … Continue reading →

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Reinstall Packages

Posted on 2024-01-23 by jcs

Someone posted a link to an old Bozhidar Batsov post that discusses a nifty little function that automates a simple but annoying manual process. Those of you who use package.el or the use-package macro are probably familiar with the problem. … Continue reading →

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Lab Notebooks

Posted on 2024-01-22 by jcs

I love the idea of lab notebooks. I was trained in the sciences but that training was in Mathematics so the idea of lab notebooks didn’t play much of a role. In the experimental sciences and most engineering disciplines, they … Continue reading →

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