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Technical notes and essays about Clojure, Emacs, Lisp and the odds and ends of web development.

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73 from 10 Feb 2013 to 12 Feb 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. Alternate Completing Read

2025 1

  1. can be viewed here

2023 4

  1. Query JSON Documents in Emacs
  2. advanced org-capture ideas
  3. Better find-file for Org Files
  4. Chapter 3

2022 2

  1. A Second Chance for Eshell
  2. Chapter 2

2021 1

  1. Focused Work

2020 4

  1. Beep for Emacs
  2. lengthy essay on the project
  3. Extending Emacs Completing Read
  4. Web Browsing and Emacs

2019 3

  1. Project Piper
  2. transcript of the slides for my presentation
  3. Chapter 1

2018 5

  1. gentle introduction
  2. Advice for Code Reviewers
  3. Review of Keyboard.io
  4. Read more…
  5. Read the review…

2017 3

  1. Presenting EShell
  2. transcript of the slides and demonstration
  3. Breadcrumbs from a Hack Night

2016 7

  1. New File Templates
  2. Demystifying Regular Expressions
  3. Reviewed the Kinesis Foot Pedal
  4. Emacs: The Pair of Old Jeans
  5. Skinning Org Mode
  6. Tutorial for OrgLitProg
  7. Emacs and imenu

2015 20

  1. Code Density?
  2. Online Turing Machine
  3. Beep.sh
  4. Git Rebasing and Magit Demo
  5. Deploying!
  6. I was Schooled
  7. The Power of EmacsConf
  8. More Literate Devop Examples
  9. Read the essay
  10. How Often do you Commit?
  11. Updated my Literate Devops
  12. Meeting Etiquette
  13. TMux: My Starting Guide
  14. Literate Devops: With Databases!
  15. Folder Actions for Emacs
  16. Little Emacs Spreadsheets
  17. Read the essay…
  18. Key Sequences in Emacs
  19. The Tao of Emacs
  20. Emacs is my Window Manager

2014 17

  1. Squashing Commits with Magit
  2. already written about
  3. Literate DevOps
  4. Computer Languages Suck
  5. Teaching Programming…Again
  6. Journaling with org-mode
  7. New Design
  8. Eschewing Zshell for Emacs
  9. beyond my original introduction
  10. Online Presentations
  11. Scratch Tutorial
  12. Read more…
  13. Squashing Git Commits for Gerrit
  14. Gerrit Review system
  15. Why Emacs?
  16. Clustered Random Numbers for Art
  17. Getting Started with Emacs

2013 2

  1. A/B Testing at jQuery Summit
  2. Whence Forth?

Undated 3

  1. notes onsetting up IP Tables
  2. I’ve done these
  3. most of my original essays