Monthly Archives: February 2026

Casual For Registers, Rectangles, And Windows

Posted on 2026-02-09 by jcs

As you probably know, I’m a big fan of Charles Choi’s Casual Suite. His latest offering deals with registers, rectangles, and windows. Much as I like the Casual Suite, I won’t be using these latest menus. Choi, as usual, is … Continue reading →

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Toggling Between Let and Let*

Posted on 2026-02-08 by jcs

If you aren’t an Elisp programmer—or at least some sort of Lisp programmer—this post won’t make much sense to you. If you do write in Elisp/Lisp, it tells you how to sand down a tiny bump in your workflow. It … Continue reading →

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Declarative, Reproducible Emacs

Posted on 2026-02-07 by jcs

Jacob Boxerman has a nice video and related blog post about his approach to configuring Emacs in a declarative and reproducible way. By “reproducible” he means that if he installs his init.el on a new system, he gets the exact … Continue reading →

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Org Capture From Anywhere

Posted on 2026-02-06 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Jack Baty has a short post on how he enables Org capture from anywhere on his system. He does pretty much what I do except that I use yequake instead of his custom script. Yequake probably … Continue reading →

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Remote Work: Advice From A Veteran

Posted on 2026-02-05 by jcs

For reasons having to do with adverse serendipity, I’ve never been able to achieve one of my long held employment goals: remote work. For one reason or another, I’ve always ended up working for control freaks who just knew that … Continue reading →

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No Post Today

Posted on 2026-02-04 by jcs

Sorry, no post today. Life, as they say, has intervened. Not to worry, though. Everything is fine and the usual blathering will continue tomorrow.

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How Punchagan Lost His Elfeed Database

Posted on 2026-02-03 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Punchagan over at NOETIC NOUGHT started saving his Elfeed database after he lost it in a system crash. At the time, Punchagan didn’t know exactly what happened, only that the system … Continue reading →

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Exporting From Org To Docx

Posted on 2026-02-02 by jcs

JR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has a useful post on exporting an Org document to Docx. I’ve written about this before [1, 2, 3] and you might wonder why. After all, you can simply export directly … Continue reading →

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Goodhart’s Law

Posted on 2026-02-01 by jcs

Michał Poczwardowski has a nice post on Goodhart’s Law. The law is usually expressed as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” That may seem a little abstract but its application is familiar to … Continue reading →

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