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ChatGPT in Org Mode

Posted on 2023-04-04 by jcs

There’s been a lot of excitement about ChatGPT lately so of course Emacs hackers have risen to the challenge with Emacs interfaces to it. The first I was aware of was Vivek Haldar’s contribution but there have been several others. … Continue reading →

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Using Org Mode

Posted on 2023-03-12 by jcs

Aditya Athalye has a long(ish) and interesting post on how he uses org mode for writing and more. Like many of us, Athalye has used a lot of apps for keeping notes and publishing his blog and slides for his … Continue reading →

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The History of Emacs

Posted on 2023-02-18 by jcs

Over at Linux User Space, Leo and Dan have a short video giving a reasonably comprehensive history of Emacs: Would you look at that! Another text editor #history hitting @tilvids today. This time, it’s #Emacs. Oh, you didn’t know #TECO … Continue reading →

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A Short Essay on Reproducible Research

Posted on 2023-01-12 by jcs

As everyone around here knows, I am a big fan of reproducible research and the idea of including data, code, and explanatory text in the same file. For researchers, that makes it easy for others to verify and extend the … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Versus Jupyter Notebook

Posted on 2022-08-06 by jcs

John D. Cook, a consulting mathematician, who runs the TeX and Typography Twitter feed as well as several similar—mostly mathematically focused—feeds has two posts that consider using Org-mode instead of Jupyter Notebook. It’s interesting because it comes from someone who … Continue reading →

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Source Block Executors

Posted on 2022-01-15 by jcs

Isa Mert Gurbuz (isamert) has a very interesting post on using Org Babel to interactively deal with Web APIs. Starting with Zweifisch’s ob-http, he queries a site and gets some JSON returned. The ob-http code even allows you to pipe … Continue reading →

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A Beautiful Example of Literate Programming In Org-mode

Posted on 2021-12-21 by jcs

Look at this! Literate programming in #emacs using org mode and org babel. pic.twitter.com/AOpYwpnmq7 — Nicolas P. Rougier (@NPRougier) December 20, 2021 Despite my protestations of being all-digital / all-day, I’m a sucker for this type of thing. It’s just … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs & Org in College (Programming) Assignments

Posted on 2021-01-24 by jcs

If you’re an experienced Emacser, the idea of using Emacs everywhere—including for school assignments—is second nature. Of course, not everyone is an experienced user. Some, like Seshal Jain, discover Emacs in the course of their studies and evolve their workflows … Continue reading →

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Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper

Posted on 2021-01-14 by jcs

Literate Programming. Back in 1984 when Knuth published his paper proposing Literate Programming, he believed that the concept would take over the programming world. I remember him saying that companies that failed to adopt Literate Programming would soon fall behind … Continue reading →

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Managing Servers with Org

Posted on 2020-11-28 by jcs

Fragbot has an interesting reddit post talking about using Emacs as a standalone infrastructure that can be shared by others. The idea is that you integrate Emacs into a workflow for use by folks who aren’t normally Emacs users. He … Continue reading →

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