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Irreal

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December 2018

  1. Notes for Karl Voit’s Talk at 35c3
  2. How You Know the Copyright Cartel Is Out of Control
  3. Org Mode 9.2
  4. Writing and Publishing Emacs Packages
  5. A Reminder about MELPA
  6. Emacs for R Programming
  7. Merry Christmas the Linux Way
  8. The History of cat
  9. A Theme for Prose Writers
  10. Another Blogging Workflow with Org Publish
  11. The Yoda of Silicon Valley
  12. Org to Dotfiles
  13. Scrolling with Emacs
  14. Proced on the Mac
  15. An Example of an Engineering Notebook
  16. China Backs Plan S
  17. Tell Me Again Why You’re Still Using Windows
  18. Is Org the Borg?
  19. The Default Emacs Key Bindings
  20. SSL Update
  21. Or Maybe Not
  22. Irreal Is Secure
  23. The GCHQ’s Need for Bulk Hacking has “Evolved”
  24. Experts Use Emacs and Vim
  25. Literate Programming with Org-mode
  26. Query
  27. The Ignorant, The Stupid, and The Insane
  28. You Are a Target
  29. The Psychology Replication Crisis
  30. Capturing Receipts
  31. Making a Poster with Org-mode
  32. Microsoft Data Collection

November 2018

  1. Cashless in Sweden
  2. The Org-ref Video Revisited
  3. Nothing To Hide
  4. Search and Replace
  5. More Trouble for Adtech
  6. Running an Org-mode Block as Root
  7. Another Blogging Solution
  8. Writing a Thesis with Org Mode
  9. “Refactoring” Prose
  10. The Emacs 26.1.90 Pretest
  11. Statistics and Lies
  12. Moving the iOS Cursor
  13. Longform Writing With Org-mode
  14. A Thought for the Day
  15. Government and Cybersecurity
  16. Is Terminal Emacs Better?
  17. Deleting Mail by the Page in Mu4e
  18. Proof Reading with Text-To-Speech
  19. Rob Pike’s Personal Unix History
  20. Adtech Prepares for a Big Hit
  21. An Emergency USB for When You’re Stuck on Windows
  22. De-Googlifying Your Life
  23. Refiling in Org Mode
  24. Troy Hunt on Why Passwords Aren’t Going Away
  25. A Win for Open Access
  26. Implementing Strings
  27. Blocking Elsevier
  28. Zamansky 53: Emailing Your Agenda
  29. High School Students and Basic Computer Skills
  30. Programmatic Capitalization

October 2018

  1. Zamansky 52: Eyebrowse
  2. An Interview with RMS
  3. Emacs Security
  4. Emacs Doctor
  5. Some Small Progress on the DRM Front
  6. Matt Green Gives Up Chrome
  7. Using Emacs 51
  8. Ancient Emacs Code
  9. EmacsCast #6
  10. ZWEI
  11. The Story of Emacs Lisp
  12. An Org Mode Workflow
  13. A Road to Common Lisp
  14. Mike Elgan on Google
  15. More Pro Tips from Ambrevar
  16. Advanced Hashing Techniques
  17. Ignoring Files Locally in Magit
  18. Configuring Org Mode to Look Like a Word Processor
  19. The Real Point of All the Talk About Tech Addiction
  20. Virtualized Emacs
  21. Formatting Tables
  22. Emacs for iA Writer Users
  23. Xmonad
  24. An Old School Editor
  25. The Decline of Penmanship
  26. Final Update on Mojave/Emacs Problem
  27. Another Take on Going Paperless
  28. Another “Perfect” Mail Setup
  29. RMSbolt
  30. Reproducible Research and Literate Programming in Econometrics
  31. Blogging with Org Mode

September 2018

  1. Update on the Mojave/Emacs Problem
  2. File and Directory Variables
  3. Emacscast #5
  4. Dedicated Frames
  5. PSA: GUI Emacs Broken on Mojave
  6. Using Multiple-Cursors to Kill Multiple Processes
  7. Another “How Did I Not Know This?”
  8. Recording Your Org Mode Activity
  9. Clean Screen Writing
  10. A Tiny Change to Irreal
  11. Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform
  12. Things I Don’t Miss
  13. Finding Happiness with an Ancient Editor
  14. Why Learn Those Ancient Editors?
  15. Little Languages
  16. Org Capture
  17. Sorry for the Bad Formatting
  18. Beorg Review
  19. Emacs ImageMagick Interface
  20. Norvig’s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming Open Sourced
  21. Displaying Alerts from Eshell
  22. Happy Birthday DMR
  23. Firefox’s Plans for Fighting Tracking
  24. Emacs → VSCode → Emacs
  25. EmacsCast #4
  26. A Swiper Tip
  27. Languages for Text Processing
  28. Fixing an Emacs Lisp Annoyance
  29. Literate Programming for Programming Notes
  30. Whitespace and Regexes in Emacs

August 2018

  1. Being Organized with Org Mode
  2. Magit from the Terminal
  3. Copy Sexp at Mouse Position to Point
  4. Why Emacs Is Awesome
  5. How A Nerd Counts Stairs
  6. Refreshing the Occur Buffer
  7. Actionable Links in Emacs Buffers
  8. Splitting An Org Block
  9. Bumper-Sticker Computer Science
  10. The Emacs Community
  11. A Lisp Machine
  12. The Many Uses of Org Mode
  13. Storing Energy with Concrete Blocks
  14. Why Emacs is a Great Editor
  15. The Ferret Lisp System
  16. The Past Comes Around Again
  17. Emacs Podcast #3
  18. Karl Voit on Security
  19. Use The Profiler!
  20. Emacs for the CEO, Part 2
  21. Emacs Podcast
  22. The Machine that Builds Itself
  23. Another Emacs/Vim Survey
  24. Keyboard Macros: A Reason to Use Emacs
  25. Solving 10 Common Git Problems
  26. Using Emacs at School
  27. Diceware Video
  28. Now: Open Offices; Next: No Offices
  29. A GTD Workflow with Emacs and Org Mode
  30. When Advertising Is Not Advertising
  31. Eshell Aliases

July 2018

  1. Multiple Mu4e Signature Blocks
  2. Aggregate Tables
  3. Geek Trivia
  4. An Email Based Git Workflow
  5. Selection and Navigation in Emacs
  6. Managing Forks and Pull Request in GitHub
  7. Clone a GitHub Repository from Within Emacs
  8. Karl Voit on Key Bindings and File Hierarchy
  9. Find Commits Affecting a Function
  10. Afterword to Kernighan’s Grep Video
  11. A Q&A with Brian Kernighan
  12. Three Emacs Modes for Note Taking
  13. DHH on Open Offices
  14. More YASnippet Templates
  15. Building an Initial Emacs Configuration
  16. Emacs As an Editor
  17. Run a Raw Git Command From Within Magit
  18. Dired Hacks Redux
  19. Literate Programming with Org Mode
  20. Things You Can Do With Regular Expressions in Emacs
  21. Setting the Line End Convention
  22. Open Office Means Less Openness
  23. Helpful Revisited
  24. The Genesis of Grep’s Name
  25. Org Unfolding Tip
  26. Learn a Little AWK
  27. ESC ESC ESC
  28. Apple’s New Maps
  29. Don’t Be a Peripheral
  30. A BBEdit Challenge
  31. Zamansky 50: Presentations

June 2018

  1. Two Videos on Early Unix
  2. The Emacs Commune
  3. HTTPS Is Easy
  4. An Emacs Interface to the macOS System Dictionary
  5. Literate Programming Using Org Babel
  6. Howard Abrams on Capturing Data to the Current Task
  7. Get Your News From Blogs
  8. Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs
  9. Zamansky 49: Mu4e-conversation
  10. Klipse
  11. Xah Lee on Abbrev Mode
  12. Internationalization of Text Strings with Emacs
  13. How The Teletype Works
  14. Line Numbers in Emacs 26.1
  15. The Macalope Takes Down Tech Addiction
  16. We Have Always Been at War with Spam
  17. Mu4e-conversation
  18. Configuring Wanderlust
  19. A Complete Computing Environment
  20. Format$
  21. Org Mode is Awesome
  22. Mastering Emacs on 26.1
  23. Emacs for Vim Users
  24. JWZ on Microsoft Acquiring GitHub
  25. Tech Addiction is Not Real
  26. Python for Lisp Programmers
  27. Video: How WeChat and Alipay Dominates Chinese Life
  28. A Thesaurus for Emacs
  29. Emacs 26, Threads, and Generators
  30. Recursion

May 2018

  1. Introduction to EWW
  2. Eshell and Emacs Everywhere
  3. The Cost of Adtech
  4. Emacs 26.1 Is Out
  5. f-strings in Elisp
  6. The Irreal Privacy Policy
  7. Using Request to Download Financial Data
  8. Going Dark: How Many Locked Phones Are There?
  9. Reproducible Research for Management
  10. Reproducibility Using GNU Guix
  11. Python Doctests, Literate Programming, and Org Mode
  12. Introduction to Using Git
  13. Capturing Code Snippets
  14. A Tip for Org Mode N00bs
  15. Some Dired Tips
  16. California Stores the DNA of All Babies Born in the State
  17. Emacs Tools for Writers
  18. Making Slides with Org-reveal
  19. Batch Editing with ed
  20. Spaces After Periods
  21. A Timestamp Hydra
  22. SSH Tips
  23. Text Manipulation with Command Line Utilities
  24. Emacs 26.1 Should Be Released Very Soon
  25. Elisp Guide
  26. Org 9.1.13
  27. A Handy Tip for Counsel/Swiper Users
  28. Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper
  29. Writing LaTeX with Org Mode
  30. Emacs Lisp Bytecode
  31. What Cursor Position

April 2018

  1. File Name Conventions and Tagging Trees
  2. Emacs Video: Play Emacs Like an Instrument
  3. Documents and Presentations with Org Mode
  4. Org 9.1.12
  5. Happy Birthday Irreal
  6. Programs that Program
  7. Enough With Smartphone Addiction Already
  8. Zamansky 48: Silver Searcher
  9. The Trouble With OneNote and Evernote
  10. Org Babel Recipes
  11. Sed
  12. RMS on Data Collection
  13. Blogging with Hugo and Org Mode
  14. The Job from Hell
  15. Is Undefined
  16. Update: One Down
  17. Reminder and Update
  18. Emacs 26.1 RC-1
  19. Mike Zamansky
  20. Elisp Slime Nav
  21. Facebook and Products
  22. Magit Interface Walkthrough
  23. Zamansky 47: Magit
  24. Adding an ‘s’ to Marked Text
  25. Open Source Tools
  26. Niklaus Wirth and Compiler Construction
  27. An Application of Org-element
  28. SBCL 1.4.6
  29. C++ and Pointers
  30. Back to RSS

March 2018

  1. Enough Is Enough
  2. A C++ Configuration for Emacs
  3. The Right Tool for the Job
  4. Programmers and Hardware
  5. Emacs Über Alles
  6. Why C?
  7. It Can Be Done
  8. A Reasonably Safe Windows Email Reading Environment
  9. Calc For Programmers
  10. New Release of Org Mode
  11. Acronyms in LaTeX Documents
  12. RC1 for Emacs 26.1
  13. Lightweight Literate Programming with Hydras
  14. Exactly!
  15. Auto-Yasnippets
  16. Zamansky 46: Auto-YASnippet
  17. Log In Zulu
  18. Grepping Git Repositories and Other Collections
  19. Mind Mapping with Org-brain
  20. Zamansky 45: Autocomplete and Company Mode
  21. Radio Buttons and Devops in Org Mode
  22. Happy Birthday Dark Side of the Moon
  23. MathJax Tips
  24. Ten Tools for Academics
  25. The Smartphone as Part of Your Mind
  26. A Return to Emacs
  27. A Sound Investment
  28. UPSide Project Update
  29. Zamansky 44: A PDF-view Workflow
  30. Update 2
  31. Update
  32. Trouble Publishing
  33. Reasons to Switch to Emacs

February 2018

  1. A Reproducible Research Toolkit
  2. A Nice Mu4e Configuration
  3. Org Spreadsheet Cheat Sheet
  4. Setting an Org Table Formula
  5. Video on Searching with Swiper
  6. Using Multiple Editors
  7. Literate Benchmarking
  8. Zamansky 43: Playing Music with MPD
  9. Brent’s Cycle Detection Algorithm
  10. Zamansky 42: Git Gutter and Git Time Machine
  11. Emacs for Devops
  12. Adtech: Everything That’s Wrong with the Internet?
  13. The UPSide Project
  14. Structures in Emacs Lisp
  15. What Has Emacs Replaced Your Workflow
  16. Zamansky 41: Pandoc
  17. Org-Noter
  18. Paper Jams
  19. Emacs Tweaks from Other Editors
  20. The UPS Follies
  21. Working with Gists in Emacs
  22. The Advantages of Blogging for an Emacs User
  23. Mu 1.0 Problem Solved
  24. Mu 1.0
  25. Another Take on Engineering Notebooks
  26. The Suit That Would Not Die
  27. Privacy Finally Wins One
  28. Abo-abo

January 2018

  1. Zamansky 40: Atomic Chrome
  2. More Making Things Easier
  3. Making Things Easier
  4. Language/Editor Integration
  5. Karl Voit on Org Mode
  6. How Do I Exit Vi?
  7. Comparing Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and Vanilla Emacs
  8. Debugging Elfeed with DTrace
  9. Agenda Alerts
  10. Emacs 26 Pretest #2
  11. Twenty Bash Tricks
  12. Redditor-mode
  13. The New Luddites on iPhone Addiction
  14. New Org Mode Repository
  15. Scale All Emacs Windows for Presentations
  16. Org Mode Cookbook Revisited
  17. When Emacs Users Lend Their Computer
  18. Things Seen That Can’t Be Unseen
  19. Pencils
  20. Emacs Survival Card
  21. Experiencing the Old Days
  22. Apple and Targeted Ad Revenue
  23. An Oldie but Goodie
  24. Linux Journal on Scimax
  25. The Em-Dash
  26. A Handy Calc Tip
  27. Frame Peek
  28. Imenu
  29. Lava Lamps
  30. Typesetting the TeX and LaTeX Symbols with Org Mode
  31. Tweets on Emacs and Org Mode

2017 370

December 2017

  1. König 36: A Third Way of Setting and Tracking Goals
  2. The Longevity of CDs
  3. Remember This?
  4. You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
  5. I Am Not Worthy
  6. Org 9.1.5
  7. Zamansky 39: mbsync and mu4e
  8. OrgMode Tutorial Episode 7, Snippet 5
  9. Steve Purcell
  10. Comments
  11. flet, cl-flet and Dynamic/Lexical Binding
  12. Git-undo
  13. PSA: Importing the OS X Path into Emacs
  14. Exporting DOCX/ODT Documents With a Style Sheet
  15. More Calc Recipes
  16. Chris Wellons on Emacs Calc
  17. The Dream Achieved?
  18. The Lions Book
  19. A Multiple Cursors Use Case
  20. Helpful
  21. Programmer Wisdom
  22. After the Laptop
  23. End Your List Items with a Period
  24. Four LaTeX Mistakes
  25. Followup on the Momento Database App
  26. Sacha on External Brains
  27. Org 9.1.4
  28. AUCTeX 11.92
  29. Emacs Problems: Can’t Post
  30. Almost Ready
  31. Zamansky’s Advent of Code #1
  32. Ivy 0.10.0

November 2017

  1. DRM and the Darknet
  2. Working in Emacs
  3. Read Only
  4. Computer Languages as Weapons
  5. The pcre2el Package
  6. Mastering Emacs on Sale
  7. Using Emacs 38: Dired
  8. Google Apps
  9. Emacs for the CEO Redux
  10. Ivy Occur Customizations
  11. Keeping A Lab Notebook Webinar
  12. Beginning Emacs Tutorial Video
  13. Magit Log for a File
  14. Happy Birthday Smartparens!
  15. Org 9.1.3 Is Out
  16. More on ed
  17. The Case for RSS
  18. A Small Swiper Trick
  19. The NSA and Their Lost Secrets
  20. Swapping Windows with Ace-window
  21. More PDF Tool Tips
  22. Ivy Selection Algorithms
  23. Xah Lee on Long Term Emacs Productivity
  24. Pandoc 2
  25. Autocomplete Boilerplate
  26. A New Generation of TOR Onion Services
  27. Bloat? What Bloat?
  28. Emacs in the Humanities
  29. Association List Library
  30. Emphasize LaTeX Code in an Org Buffer

October 2017

  1. PDF-Tools: Setup and Annotation
  2. Good News for Mu4e Users
  3. Howard Abrams on Eshell
  4. Technical Problems with Today’s Post
  5. Using the dash Library to Work with Org Tables
  6. AWK Examples
  7. Tables and Org Mode Code Blocks
  8. EXWM
  9. The Unix Philosophy
  10. Fraud in Digital Advertising
  11. Practical GPG
  12. Lists in Word
  13. Which-key and Calc
  14. Emacs Line Modes
  15. Remote Sudo
  16. Mathematical Typesetting
  17. Start an Engineering Notebook
  18. Everybody Wants to Get Into the Act
  19. Elisp for Configuration
  20. Emacs Pretest 1 Is Available
  21. C-q and ASCII in Emacs
  22. Bookmarks, Eshell, and Docker
  23. Unix History
  24. Kontra Nails It on Open Offices
  25. Org Mode Completion
  26. Emacs for Everything
  27. Org Mode 9.1.2
  28. Working With Log Files in Emacs
  29. Doubleclick Whines
  30. Adding Hyper and Super Keys for Emacs
  31. Open Offices and Sickness

September 2017

  1. Org Mode as an Exocortex
  2. Emacs Rocks! #17: Magit
  3. Kitchin on Org Entities
  4. Building Presentations
  5. A Graphviz Go by
  6. WeChat and Privacy
  7. Zamansky 37: Treemacs
  8. Karl Voit on the Superiority of Org Mode Markup
  9. Burying Power Cables
  10. Org Entities
  11. The New Luddites Strike Again
  12. Graphviz and Org Mode
  13. Orgmode 9.1.1
  14. Emacs Rocks! #16
  15. The ed Editor
  16. A Double Helping of Schadenfreude
  17. Emacs as a Cloud Service
  18. Emacs 25.3
  19. Irma After Action Report
  20. Update
  21. Org Mind Map
  22. Jerry Pournelle, RIP
  23. Happy Birthday Dennis Ritchie
  24. Possible Posting Hiatus
  25. Reading EPUBs in Emacs
  26. Org Mode 9.1 Released
  27. Making a Case for Eshell
  28. Webster and Emacs
  29. Draft #4, The Book
  30. Magit Kickstarter
  31. Using EDITOR on a Remote System with Tramp

August 2017

  1. Org Mode Folding
  2. The Map Library
  3. Shannon’s Six Steps to Problem Solving
  4. The kv Library
  5. The Ugliest Editor Theme Ever Conceived?
  6. Elisp Hash Table Library
  7. Happy Birthday Linux
  8. Nist Password Guidelines
  9. Marking a Word
  10. Ivy Initial Input String
  11. Setting Up a Lisp Development Environment
  12. Emacs Lisp Development Tools
  13. An Elisp Introduction
  14. Apple’s Open Office
  15. A Little Red Meat for Emacsers
  16. A Personal Emacs Package Repo
  17. Note Taking with Org Mode
  18. WeChat
  19. Magit Bisect Tutorial
  20. Fence Edit
  21. Tips for Writing LaTeX documents
  22. Finding Unbalanced LaTeX Delimiters in Emacs
  23. Lisp Runtime Redefinition
  24. Magit Rebase Tutorial
  25. Counting Words in Some Buffers Only
  26. Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
  27. Claude Shannon Redux
  28. The Pass Password Manager
  29. Tuning Your Emacs Configuration for a Fast Load
  30. Configuring Notmuch and Offlineimap for Emacs
  31. An Application of let-alist

July 2017

  1. Zamansky 36: Swapping Buffers and Some Elisp
  2. Creating a Branch from the Current Git State
  3. The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written
  4. Hosting Your Own Contacts and Calendar
  5. Collapsing Empty Directories in Zsh
  6. Hydra Video
  7. Emacs and Magit
  8. Tabula
  9. Cash and Smart Phones in China
  10. Goodhart’s Law
  11. John Wiegley and Sacha Chua on use-package
  12. A New Blog Post Searching Protocol
  13. Video on counsel-git-grep
  14. Changing the Recentering Order
  15. Collapsing Empty Dired Paths
  16. Claude Shannon
  17. Removing Org Source Block Results
  18. Measuring Package Load Times
  19. Ivy and Internal Org Links
  20. Revisiting abo-abo’s Refactoring Video
  21. Oldies but Goodies Updated—Part 2
  22. Some Oldies but Goodies Updated—Part 1
  23. Decouple Your Phone from Sensitive Accounts
  24. An Emacs Tutorial Series
  25. Pretty Printing and Macroexpanding the Last Sexpression
  26. Should We Abandon PDFs?
  27. Nicolas Petton on GTD with Org Mode
  28. Indenting and Pretty Printing a Sexpr
  29. Some Common Items for Your Emacs Configuration
  30. Fallout From the NSA’s Loss of Hacking Tools
  31. Get in the Flow!

June 2017

  1. Tutorial on Ivy, Counsel, and Swiper
  2. Five Org Mode Features
  3. Zamansky 35: Blogging
  4. Choice Lists for Yasnippets
  5. Org2blog/wp and Multibyte Characters
  6. Police State
  7. Protecting Line Breaks from Fill
  8. Make M-RET better in Org Mode
  9. Aaaaaaand We’re Back
  10. Outage
  11. The Inevitable End of Government Surveillance
  12. More Font-locking Fun from Fuco1
  13. Xah’s Tutorial on Text Properties
  14. Finally!
  15. Adding Keymaps to Org Source Blocks
  16. Zamansky 34: ibuffer and emmet
  17. Using EWW as Your Default Browser (Sometimes)
  18. How to Read Papers Efficiently
  19. More on Google’s Ad Blocking
  20. More on Mu4e
  21. Apple Does it Again
  22. Adtech Followup
  23. Replacing Scrivener with Emacs
  24. Karl Voit’s Emacs Configuration
  25. Some Progress on Adtech
  26. Importing Data from a RESTful Website into an Org Table
  27. Semantic Locality
  28. Fuco1 on Anchored Fontlocking
  29. Some Scimax Enhancements
  30. Another Emacs Mail Solution
  31. Notmuch Video

May 2017

  1. How to Read the Commentary Section of Emacs Packages
  2. The FBI Proves the Iron Law of Data Collection
  3. An Update on Microsoft’s Move to Git
  4. Fontifying Broken Org Links
  5. Henry Spencer and getopt
  6. Fontifying Completed Checkbox Items
  7. A Nice Trick for Literate Configurations
  8. Using Org Mode for Writing
  9. Importing Tables to Org with Pasting
  10. A DSL for Elfeed
  11. 35 Coding Habits to Avoid
  12. A Clojure Workflow
  13. Russ Cox on Globbing
  14. Quick Check on Files With counsel-ag
  15. Dumb-jump in Action
  16. Org 9.0.7
  17. If You’re Looking for Another Reason to Despise Journalists…
  18. The Past Comes Due
  19. The Benefits of Reading Code
  20. Imenu for Dired
  21. A Company-wide Emacs Configuration
  22. Running Your Life from Your Smart Phone
  23. Jumping Directly to Org Headers
  24. How to Make Swiper Choose the Second or Subsequent Match on a Line
  25. Comey and Feinstein At It Again
  26. Going to the Beginning and End of Special Buffers
  27. Email With Notmuch and Astroid
  28. LSP Coming to Emacs?
  29. Storing Secrets
  30. Arjen Wiersma’s Emacs Configuration
  31. Blogs and Journals in Science
  32. Ogbe’s Literate Emacs Configuration

April 2017

  1. SBCL 1.3.17
  2. Zamansky 33: Projectile and Dumb Jump
  3. The Value of Source Code in Emacs
  4. Installed Emacs 25.2
  5. Irreal Is 6
  6. Listing Org Tags
  7. A Synchronized Shopping List for Linux/Android
  8. A Warning Ignored
  9. Emacs 25.2 Has Been Released
  10. Paredit Video
  11. Using Babel Video
  12. Elfeed
  13. An Easy Way to Download Your Email in Maildir Format
  14. Ivy Described
  15. Pcase and Friends
  16. Introduction to Spacemacs
  17. Is Cursive Virtuous?
  18. I Stand Corrected…
  19. Fire Adtech
  20. Ivy 0.9.0
  21. A Better RETURN for Org
  22. Publishing a Book with Leanpub and Org Mode
  23. Hacker Archetypes
  24. A Simple Programming Praxis Solution in Elisp
  25. Mu4e Configuration
  26. Configuring mbsync for Apple Mail
  27. Summer!
  28. Mu4e at Irreal
  29. Updating save-receipt-link
  30. AI Loosely Defined

March 2017

  1. The Emacs rx Macro
  2. The Richness of ibuffer
  3. Abo-abo on Implementing a C++ IDE on Emacs
  4. Comments on the Thompson Hack
  5. Emacs as a C/C++ IDE
  6. Emacser Defined
  7. Ediff Files from Dired
  8. Flash, FedEx? Really?
  9. A Beautiful On-line Version of SICP
  10. Query on mbsync for macOS
  11. Dired Sorting
  12. Reproducible Journalism?
  13. Stein’s Emacs Productivity Series
  14. The Silver Searcher, Ivy-occur, and Swiper
  15. Going to the Nth Paragraph in Emacs
  16. Guile 2.2
  17. Prompting on Exit from Emacs
  18. Shell and Comint History
  19. An Automated Publishing Pipeline
  20. Mu/Mu4e 0.9.18
  21. We Don’t Wear Suits
  22. Happy 44th Birthday Dark Side of the Moon
  23. Org and Emacs Resources
  24. A Warning for Web Designers
  25. Installing Hugo and Goorgeous
  26. Netops
  27. Undo/Redo with Scrolling
  28. Zamansky 32: Using Emacs for C++
  29. Blogging with Org Mode and Hugo
  30. Mu4e Tutorial
  31. Library Hand
  32. Zamansky 31: Elfeed (3)

February 2017

  1. An Emacs Workflow
  2. Emacs 25.2 RC2
  3. Zamansky 30: Elfeed (2)
  4. Emacs vs. Vim
  5. Emacs as a LaTeX Editor
  6. Zamansky 29: Elfeed (1)
  7. Red Meat, Editor Edition
  8. Using a Local Bibliography File with Org
  9. Another Emacs/GCal Solution
  10. Migrating Notes from Evernote to Org
  11. Starting with Scheme
  12. ESR Evaluates Go
  13. Digital Workflow: Pocket Carry Edition
  14. A Security PSA
  15. Paperless
  16. Another Recommendation for Which-key
  17. Resetting a defvar Value
  18. When Will I Learn All of Emacs?
  19. Org 9.0.5
  20. Zamansky 28: Rectangles
  21. MobileOrg Web Site
  22. Emacs 25.2 RC1
  23. Imenu and Use-package
  24. Scaling Git at Microsoft
  25. Happy Birthday Ken
  26. Choosing Emacs
  27. Dumb Phones and the New Luddites
  28. The auth-source Manual

January 2017

  1. Mobile Org 1.7.1
  2. Identifying an Emacs Commit
  3. Emacs Quotes
  4. An Overview of ASCII
  5. Zamansky 29: Using Shell and Eshell
  6. Open Offices are Bad for You
  7. Org Mode 9.0.4
  8. Tutorial on Building Reveal.js Slides with Org Mode
  9. Saving Keystrokes When Invoking the Agenda
  10. The Right Dictionary
  11. Refining Spell Checking in Web-mode
  12. Another Workflow
  13. Rust vs. Go
  14. Dangerous Phishing Attack
  15. More Experiments with Indexing Org Files
  16. You Are Not Expected to Understand This
  17. Recurring Org Events
  18. A Reminder about Emacs Keybindings on MacOS
  19. An Org Workflow
  20. The Iron Law Strikes in Baltimore
  21. A PSA from Sacha
  22. Mobile Org on iOS
  23. Capturing Gcal for Display in Emacs
  24. Elisp Text Processing Idioms
  25. By the Way
  26. Zamansky 26: Syncing with Gcal
  27. Indexing Org Files with a Database
  28. Syncing GCal with Your Org Agenda
  29. Fast Opening an Org Index File
  30. Terminal vs. GUI Emacs
  31. Devops with Emacs

2016 408

December 2016

  1. A Paperless Workflow
  2. Elisp Symbols Tutorial
  3. Who Would Have Thought?
  4. Emacs Sales Pitch
  5. Setting Org Mode Properties
  6. Zamansky 25: Tramp
  7. Org Mode 9.0.3
  8. A Workflow with Org Mode
  9. Org Mode Speed Keys
  10. Working Remotely
  11. Bulk Actions
  12. A Bookmark Video
  13. The Org Mode Category Property
  14. Task Dependency in Org Mode
  15. Always Encrypt
  16. Emacs Regular Expressions
  17. Org Mode 9.0.2
  18. Maintenance Window
  19. Resolving Merge Conflicts with magit-ediff
  20. Another Zotero Workflow
  21. Running Multiple Emacs Servers
  22. Extreme Buffers
  23. List of Emacs Configurations
  24. Linus on XML
  25. Zamansky Live Codes Advent of Code 2016 #2
  26. Literate Programming with Babel
  27. Moving a File in Emacs
  28. Scientific Writing with Zotero and Org Mode
  29. Zamansky 24: Org Capture (Part 2)
  30. Awesome Emacs (Again)
  31. Blub Programmers: Editor Division
  32. Zamansky 23: Org Capture (Part 1)

November 2016

  1. Writing a format-like Function
  2. Thoughts on Emacs Configuration
  3. Scrolling Left and Right
  4. The Iron Law and the Census
  5. Mastering Emacs is 50% Off
  6. Introductory Magit Video
  7. Another of Life’s Little IQ Tests
  8. Displaying Sunrise/Sunset in Emacs
  9. Another Great Avy Command
  10. Translating Text with Org Babel
  11. Zamansky 22: emacsclient
  12. Org Mode 9.0.1
  13. Lessons From Using Org as an Init File
  14. Save Org Structure as Directory and Files
  15. Zamansky 21: Web Mode
  16. Cables
  17. Word Counting in Org Mode
  18. Zamansky 20: Yanking and Auto Revert
  19. Zamansky 19: Conditional Loading of Emacs Config
  20. Org Mode and Python
  21. isearch Tutorial
  22. Better Kill Ring Manipulation
  23. Maintaining the System Clipboard Over an Emacs Kill
  24. Exporting JavaScript from a Babel Source Block
  25. Loyalty Cards
  26. Org 9 Links
  27. Org 9.0
  28. Zamansky 18: Narrowing and iedit
  29. The EOS Org Mode Configuration
  30. Living in Emacs

October 2016

  1. Overlays
  2. Dennis Ritchie Day
  3. Zamansky Discusses Miscellaneous Packages
  4. How to Fix Swiper Search Failure
  5. Consumers Win One
  6. The Iron Law Strikes Again
  7. A Literate Programming Example with Org Mode
  8. Google Reneges on Their Privacy Pledge
  9. Reproducible Research Webinar
  10. Org Mode for PhD Students
  11. Public Service Announcement
  12. reposition-window
  13. Redirecting eshell Output to Another Buffer
  14. Setting a Prefix Argument
  15. Merging with smerge
  16. Emacs 25.2 Coming Soon
  17. comment-dwim vs. comment-line
  18. Animation of Using eshell to cd into Another Machine
  19. Joel Spolsky on Open Offices
  20. Dennis Ritchie
  21. Comment Line in Emacs 25
  22. How a Non-Developer Uses Emacs
  23. C
  24. A Video Tutorial for undo-tree
  25. Stop Emacs from Writing package-selected-packages into init.el
  26. The Wages of Sin
  27. Hide Files in Dired Listing
  28. Visualizing Your Undo Tree
  29. Some Helpful Reminders and Advice
  30. Problem Applications in eshell
  31. Move Text
  32. Searching for Words with eww
  33. Elisp Tutorial Videos

September 2016

  1. Org Babel and Applescript
  2. Reevaluating Local Variables
  3. Tramp and cd
  4. Is Emacs Really Hard to Learn/Use?
  5. Version 2 of Mastering Emacs is Out
  6. Using ace-link with Org Mode
  7. Kill This Buffer
  8. PSA: SSH Suddenly Asks for Passwords in OS X
  9. An Example of pcase-lambda
  10. Blogging Woes
  11. The Five Second Rule
  12. Problem Posting
  13. Fundamentals
  14. Emacs 25.1
  15. Repeating a Command
  16. On Emacs Being an OS
  17. Capturing Images with Org Mode
  18. Abrams on Yasnippet
  19. Copying Text with a Mouse in OS X and Emacs
  20. Refactoring with counsel-ag
  21. Put imenu Output in a Buffer
  22. Calling eww from Dired
  23. Learn Elisp with Xah
  24. Emacs Configurations for LaTeX
  25. SBCL 1.3.9 Released
  26. Wisdom From Wilfred Hughes
  27. Rewriting Git History with Rebase in Magit
  28. Cool Fact of the Day
  29. Zamansky on Keyboard Macros
  30. Computerphile: Unrolling Loops
  31. Random Medical News

August 2016

  1. Escaping Org Examples in Org
  2. Two New König Videos
  3. Configuring Emacs for PHP
  4. Common Lisp and Pink Floyd
  5. Resistance is Futile…
  6. Data Sharing in Publications
  7. Say What?!?
  8. Reading Code with Emacs
  9. Scimax
  10. Mark Rectangle
  11. Capturing BibTeX Entries with Google Scholar
  12. König #28: Publishing
  13. Abo-abo Screencast
  14. Get Xah’s Emacs Tutorial for Free
  15. Thoughts on Emacs
  16. Rainer König on Advanced Exporting in Org Mode
  17. Query
  18. The Lies They Tell Us
  19. Making Us Root for Sci-Hub
  20. More Spice with Emacs and Org Mode
  21. Emacs: The Universal OS
  22. The W3C and DRM
  23. Inserting Today’s Date
  24. A C/C++ Development Environment
  25. Migrate Data From Evernote to Org
  26. Shoutout
  27. Emacs and Vi
  28. New Video in OrgMode Tutorial Series
  29. Zamansky on Elpy and YASnippet
  30. Keeping Emacs and Packages in Sync Across a Team
  31. Making Parent Directories Automatically
  32. SICP in Info
  33. Org Template for Specification Documents

July 2016

  1. Searching all Opened Buffers
  2. Suggest
  3. How to Get Started in Security
  4. New Zamansky Emacs Video Up
  5. The Emacs/Vi Holy War
  6. Why Literate Programming: One Man’s Answer
  7. Emacs Gifs
  8. Trackers
  9. Guile
  10. An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  11. Overturning Section 1201
  12. Emacs Bullet Points
  13. That’s Not a Password; THIS is a Password
  14. Reveal.js and Org Mode
  15. Literate Programming with R
  16. Tutorial Update (Week of July 10)
  17. Intelligent Note Taking
  18. Avoiding Data Capture
  19. Writing Humanity Papers with Org Mode
  20. Drawers and Tags
  21. Malware and the iPhone
  22. Tidying Data for Statistical Analysis
  23. Encryption and Metadata
  24. Temporarily Changing the Dired Listing
  25. GNU Privacy Guard and Emacs
  26. Directory-Local Variables
  27. A Reminder About Macro Counters
  28. SBCL 1.3.7 Released
  29. The Light-Weightedness of Emacs
  30. Circuit Simulation with Org Mode
  31. Tutorial Update (Week of June 26)
  32. Knuth’s First Lecture

June 2016

  1. Relative Dates with Org Mode
  2. Timers
  3. Ivy Switch Buffer
  4. Emacs for Screenwriters
  5. Password DNA
  6. Tutorial Update
  7. Blowing Up Academic Publishing
  8. Vi and Emacs Without the Religion
  9. Literate Programming with Org Mode
  10. Swiper
  11. Repeat Last Complex Command
  12. Stop Rule 41
  13. Using Org Tables in Source Blocks
  14. Emacs Videos for N00bs
  15. Org Tutorial Videos
  16. Copying Formatted Org Text to Other Apps
  17. Keeping a Logbook or Journal
  18. Using Org as a Timesheet
  19. Reproducible Research for R
  20. A Complete Example of Reproducible Research with Org
  21. Interacting with the Emacs Compile Buffer
  22. Project Planning with Org Mode
  23. Writing Leanpub Books with Org Mode
  24. Emacs Modifier Keys on OS X
  25. Defining a Keymap Prefix
  26. Org Clocking and Idle Time
  27. Rolling Your Own Crypto
  28. Pandoc Upgraded
  29. What’s It Take?
  30. A Checklist for Backdoor Proposals
  31. Running Unit Test with Org Mode
  32. Date Calculations in Org
  33. Filling and Unfilling Paragraphs with Emacs

May 2016

  1. Thought for the Day
  2. Malabarba: Mastering Emacs Review
  3. You Must Use Emacs or Vi
  4. Writing A Custom Emacs Package
  5. Scientific Illiteracy (2)
  6. Emacs as a (Python) IDE
  7. Quoting with Org Mode
  8. High Entropy
  9. Not an Editor, Not an Operating System…
  10. Metadata and Privacy
  11. Something Wrong
  12. The Truth About Open Offices Revealed
  13. Count Days Between Dates
  14. Schrödinger’s Backup
  15. What’s Emacs
  16. Sabotaging Your Competitors
  17. Quitting with SIGUSR2
  18. Tail Recursion in gawk
  19. Remote Shells with Tramp
  20. Email Paranoia
  21. Org Capture Template for Code Snippets
  22. Chez Scheme Open Sourced
  23. Multiple Dispatch in CLOS
  24. Learning Vim: Not That Hard
  25. Password Cracking Times
  26. Summary of Search and Replace Commands
  27. SBCL 1.3.5
  28. Multiple Org Capture Inputs
  29. Harry Schwartz on Org Mode
  30. Building a Hugo Blog with Org Mode
  31. Zero

April 2016

  1. What to do When Emacs Hangs or Crashes
  2. Tips on Writing a Major Mode
  3. Aphantasia
  4. Still No Justice
  5. Happy Birthday Irreal
  6. Blogging with Org Mode
  7. Elisp Summary
  8. Emacs for Prose
  9. FISA Abandons the Fourth Amendment (Again)
  10. Blogging with Org Mode and Nikola
  11. How to Keep Emacs Running Across an X Crash
  12. Which Key
  13. European Quotation Marks
  14. A Hyper Key on Any USB Keyboard
  15. The Demise of Midrange Computers
  16. Fingerprint Sensors Really Do Improve Security
  17. Why You Should Never Listen to the Media About Security
  18. Some Comment-DWIM Tricks
  19. Debugging
  20. An Example of Why Reproducible Research Matters
  21. Using Org Mode Displays for Presentations
  22. A Reminder from Kontra
  23. 75 Free Privacy Tools
  24. A Hydra for the Org Agenda View Dispatcher
  25. Emacs and Outlook
  26. Improved HTML Capturing with Org
  27. Any Option You Like
  28. Do Biometric Sensors Decrease Security?
  29. Coming in Emacs 25: Dynamic Modules
  30. The Walking Dead
  31. SBCL 1.3.4
  32. Some Calc Features
  33. ob-hy.el
  34. Kitchin: Day Two with Hy

March 2016

  1. What if Elisp and Python Had a Child?
  2. Moving to the Next/Previous Link in Org Mode
  3. Email Strategy
  4. Molecule Representations in Org Mode
  5. Some Oldies but Goodies
  6. Inserting Underscores
  7. Note Taking with Org Mode
  8. USB versus the U.S. Government
  9. The Reality of Key Escrow
  10. Using reveal.js with Org Mode
  11. Dotfile Management
  12. The FBI Begs Off
  13. Ensime Hacks
  14. Matt Blaze on Adtech
  15. Literate Programming With Org Babel
  16. Magit Video on Rebasing
  17. Org Mode and Software Engineering
  18. What Happens When You Give Law Enforcement a Backdoor Key?
  19. John Oliver on Encryption
  20. A One-liner Fuzzy Isearch
  21. Steven Levy on the New Crypto Wars
  22. The Data on Farook’s Phone
  23. Securing Your WordPress Site
  24. Using Emacs for Prose
  25. The FBI Doesn’t Need Apple
  26. Find a Related File
  27. Testimony of Susan Landau
  28. Bulk Rescheduling of Org Agenda Items
  29. Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?
  30. Rotating an Org Table on Export to PDF
  31. Rickrolling the FBI
  32. How to be Efficient in Emacs
  33. Filtering the Dired Display
  34. Journalists and Their Coverage of FBI/Apple
  35. Judge Orenstein Rules
  36. Lisp Family Tree

February 2016

  1. Reading Mailing Lists
  2. A Tip for Mac/Emacs Users
  3. Apple Responds
  4. Moving Files Asynchronously in Dired
  5. Science vs. Everything Else
  6. Mickey on use-package
  7. Lisp in Production
  8. Some Ansi-Term Improvement
  9. Org 8.3.4
  10. Ledger
  11. Privacy versus Law Enforcement
  12. Running Emacs as a Daemon
  13. Iedit
  14. The Heisenberg Release Uncertainty Principle
  15. Why Helm
  16. Highlighting
  17. Still Think You Have Nothing to Hide?
  18. Premature Optimization and Bugs
  19. Open the Current Buffer’s File in Another Application
  20. The Mysteries of Perl
  21. Emacs Tips
  22. Emacs 25
  23. Autocorrecting
  24. Why Indeed?
  25. Cabledolphin
  26. Emacs Garbage Collection
  27. Editors Explained
  28. Remote Code Blocks
  29. Looking for Emacs?
  30. Query
  31. Bad Idea of the Year
  32. How to Securely SSH into Your Home Network
  33. Ogbe on Why He Uses Emacs
  34. The Piper Sends its Bill to the NSA
  35. A Magit Tip
  36. More Backdoor Silliness
  37. Magit: Staging All Files Including Those Untracked
  38. Navigating to a File
  39. Entering Accented Characters in Emacs
  40. Happy Birthday!
  41. Blogging with Org Mode (Only)
  42. Emacs pcase
  43. Inserting an Org Date Quickly

January 2016

  1. Praising the Command Line
  2. Org Agenda Capture
  3. Emacs 25.1 Pretest
  4. The char-menu Package
  5. Spacemacs
  6. Presentations With Org Mode
  7. Clocking In and Out
  8. We Need More of This
  9. Bling for Your Org Files
  10. The Cost of Collaboration
  11. HUH?!?
  12. Is Object Oriented Programming Bad?
  13. A Sad Security Prediction
  14. Xwidget Branch Merged Into Emacs 25.1
  15. PSA
  16. Taking Notes with Org Mode
  17. Search for Symbol at Point
  18. New save-excursion Semantics
  19. Turn Off Adblock, Get Served Malware
  20. Gnus Guide Update
  21. TPP: A Warning
  22. Running Emacs as a Daemon
  23. Org Schedules and Deadlines
  24. Switch to Editing a File with SUDO
  25. Diffie-Hellman Explained with Paint
  26. Using Yasnippet with Mu4e
  27. Research Paper Workflow
  28. Nothing to Hide? Lose your Curtains.
  29. Org 8.3.3
  30. Eazy Gnuplot Cookbook
  31. Doing Away with Autosave Files
  32. Calling Applescript from Emacs
  33. Karma
  34. Learn From Your Tools
  35. Eight Sorts Animated
  36. Channeling George Orwell
  37. Why I Use Emacs
  38. Surveillance Karma
  39. I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Thing about Surveillance
  40. Functional Programming

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