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December 2022

  1. Checking A Word List
  2. Using RE-Builder
  3. Emacs From Scratch
  4. Lisp: Advantages and Myths
  5. Regex Search and Replace in Emacs
  6. Why Emacs Keys Are So Unergonomic
  7. Vivek Haldar on Emacs 29
  8. The Year of RSS
  9. Red Meat Friday: You Can’t Code If…
  10. Exporting To Markdown
  11. Peer Review
  12. Mbork on New Emacs 29 Features
  13. Building An Exercise Table From a Journal
  14. John Wiegley on Emacs 29
  15. Writing With Org Mode
  16. Red Meat Friday: Where Your Editor Runs…
  17. Academic Writing in Emacs
  18. RMS On What He Wants and Doesn’t Want in Emacs
  19. IDEs
  20. Debugging Elisp
  21. Plan 9: If It’s Not Broke, Don’t Fix It
  22. The Origins of PostScript
  23. Use-package Merged into Emacs 29
  24. Prot On Clojure and Cider
  25. Update On The Org-9.6 Problem
  26. PSA: Beware of Error With Org 9.6
  27. Howard Abrams On Why You Should Use Eshell
  28. Zamansky Returns
  29. A Browser-based Org File Viewer
  30. EmacsConf 2022 Reminder
  31. Iedit Video

November 2022

  1. Emacs 29 Changes
  2. Emacs-29 Release Branch and Org Mode 9.6
  3. Use Closed/Open Intervals For Programming
  4. Using Pcase and Name-let for Pattern Matching and Tail Recursion
  5. Viewing Exotic Image Files
  6. Red Meat Friday: eMacs
  7. macOS As A Unix Workstation
  8. Org Tree Slide
  9. Using Icons with Mu4e
  10. A Conversation with Mickey
  11. Replying to a Sender Specific Email Address
  12. Fred Brooks
  13. Red Meat Friday: JavaScript
  14. A New Take On Quitting Vim
  15. Mike Zamansky Is Retiring
  16. Solving Problems With Some Quick Elisp
  17. Killing Processes From Within Emacs
  18. Combining Jpegs
  19. A Dictionary and Thesaurus for Emacs
  20. Emacs As A Tool Forge
  21. Almost Monospaced Fonts
  22. Nicole
  23. Counting Working Days
  24. An Update On The Copilot Suit
  25. Mini Introduction to Elisp
  26. Google and Twitter Compared
  27. Extracting and Displaying EXIF Information
  28. FSM Diagrams in LaTeX
  29. A Discussion of Markup Languages
  30. EmacsConf 2022 is Coming

October 2022

  1. Emacs Modifier Keys in X-Windows
  2. The Coverup Begins to Unravel
  3. Mickey on Readline
  4. An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline
  5. Speeding Up Emacs Garbage Collection
  6. Another Hugo Blogging Workflow
  7. Playing YouTube Videos in Emacs
  8. Undo In Region
  9. Organizing Your Life With Org Mode
  10. Mickey on Generating TOTP Codes
  11. Red Meat Friday: Copilot and Copyrights
  12. The Lisp Community
  13. Is “Software Engineer” A Legal Job Title?
  14. The Jargon File
  15. Thoughts On A Text Editor
  16. Chrome Incognito Mode
  17. Emacs Keystrokes in macOS
  18. Red Meat Friday: Europe Brings the Regulation
  19. The Ethics of (Self) Job Automation
  20. Org-mode Is Easy
  21. A Formula for the nth Prime
  22. Extract Captions From a Youtube Video
  23. Mandated Editor
  24. Dictionaries and Emacs
  25. Red Meat Friday: Is The FSF Fighting The Previous War?
  26. Volume 4B
  27. Emacs Debugging
  28. A N00b’s View of Emacs
  29. Why You Shouldn’t Be Using Chrome
  30. Letters With Org-mod
  31. Yasnippet for Prose Writing

September 2022

  1. Red Meat Friday: VS Code As A Venus Flytrap
  2. Video On The Birth of Emacs
  3. Emacs As A Bash IDE
  4. Hurricane Warning
  5. The rs Command
  6. Describe Symbol
  7. Extending Org Links and Youtube
  8. Border Authorities Seize and Store Phone Data for 15 Years
  9. Emacs Is Not Just a Text Editor
  10. Webster 1913 and dictionary.el
  11. Bespoke Notetaking with Org-mode
  12. Why Use Org
  13. Delete to Trash from Within Emacs
  14. Webster’s 1913 Redux
  15. Modulo Bias
  16. Everyone Has Something To Hide
  17. Adopting A New Emacs Workflow
  18. Emacs 28.2 Released
  19. Fast Emacs Startup by Dumping
  20. Entering Special Characters with Abbrev
  21. Time Tracking With Org-mode
  22. Configuring Eshell
  23. Using Emacs to Write the Perfect Sentence
  24. John Cook on Literate Programming
  25. RMS on the Development of Emacs
  26. Leslie Lamport on Deconstructing the Bakery Algorithm
  27. Increasing the Max Open Files in Emacs on macOS
  28. Emacs Shortcuts
  29. Red Meat Friday: Give Nothing, Expect Nothing
  30. Chris Wellons on Hashing

August 2022

  1. More On Google’s False Accusation
  2. Mastering Eshell
  3. Quick Capture of Project Notes
  4. New Federal Open Access Policy
  5. Refiling Org Headline Nodes
  6. Red Meat Friday: Knuth versus McIlroy
  7. An Afterword to Yesterday’s Post on Google’s False Accusation
  8. Google Falsely Accuses a Father of Molesting His Son
  9. Router Security
  10. More On the Brailsford-Kernighan Video
  11. Unicode in AWK
  12. Shouting at Disks
  13. Emacs and the Unix Philosophy
  14. Janet Jackson and Crashing Laptops
  15. Brailsford & Kernighan on AWK
  16. Keeping Data and Code in the Same File
  17. More dwim-shell-command
  18. Tenacity!
  19. Fundamental Laws
  20. Red Meat Friday: Emacs Sucks
  21. From Unix Command to Startup
  22. D. J.Bernstein on the NSA Corrupting Crypto Standards
  23. Paul Graham on SciHub
  24. A Graduate Student Research Workflow
  25. Remote Work At The Doctor’s Office
  26. Org-mode Versus Jupyter Notebook
  27. Red Meat Friday: PHP Is The Right Choice
  28. Mickey on Evaluating Elisp
  29. Thoughts On Thoughts On RSS
  30. Dired-rsync
  31. They Never Give Up

July 2022

  1. Changing How Emacs Works
  2. Improvements to dwim-shell-command
  3. Red Meat Friday: Commit Messages Don’t Matter
  4. Why Use Emacs in 2022
  5. Spacing in Displayed Mathematics
  6. DWIM Shell Command On Melpa
  7. Programmers and the Flow
  8. Digital Nomads in 2022
  9. The Case for Emacs, Vim, and Nano
  10. Red Meat Friday: Seek Help
  11. Mickey On Shells & Emulators
  12. Google and Your Data
  13. Eshell Prompts
  14. Quadratic Equations Reconsidered Redux
  15. DWIM Shell Now Supports Multiple Languages
  16. Mickey on Keyboard Macros
  17. Quadratic Equations Reconsidered
  18. Inlining Images in Org-mode
  19. 111 Programmer Fonts
  20. Presentations With Org-present
  21. More Examples of DWIM Shell Commands
  22. A Quick Introduction to Awk
  23. Git Delta with Magit
  24. DWIM Shell Commands
  25. Emacs As A Terminal Multiplexer
  26. Additional Emphasis Markers in Org Mode
  27. A Regular Expression Conundrum
  28. Neckties (again)
  29. Getting Things Done With Emacs and Org-mode
  30. Emacs 28.2 Pretest
  31. Handling Org Tables in Elisp

June 2022

  1. Blood Pressure and Tattoos
  2. Mickey on Diacritics in Emacs
  3. Org Capture from Anywhere Within macOS
  4. The Lab Leak Denial Continues
  5. Capturing the Current File Location
  6. Having a Per Contact Email Address
  7. Red Meat Friday: Notion
  8. Hiding Some Org Subtrees
  9. Paper Receipts at Drive-Thrus
  10. Advice Combinators
  11. Am I Being Watched?
  12. Emacs and the Lindy Effect
  13. Highlighting
  14. Red Meat Friday: This Seems About Right
  15. Sudo via Touch ID on the Mac
  16. Rich Stevens
  17. Elfeed-tube
  18. How To Create A Missing Directory
  19. Spaced Repetition
  20. Apple Passkeys
  21. Red Meat Friday: Who’s Next?
  22. Proced
  23. Emacs Buffers
  24. The iOS Builtin Flight App
  25. Org 9.5.4
  26. Determining If Emacs Is Running In Terminal Or Gui Mode
  27. Commercial Emacs
  28. Red Meat Friday: Duck Duck Go and Microsoft
  29. Making Emacs Modern
  30. A Clueless Journalist on Apple’s Self Repair Program

May 2022

  1. Elisp Cheat Sheet
  2. Creative Writing With Emacs
  3. The EFF Announces the End of Life for HTTPS Everywhere
  4. Crazy Mode
  5. Red Meat Friday: Ties
  6. Leslie Lamport
  7. Emacs, Xwidgets, and macOS
  8. Too Many Open Files
  9. A Million Words
  10. Using Abbrev to Autocorrect
  11. Looping Through Org Headings
  12. Red Meat Friday: Managers and Technical Expertise
  13. Emacs Completion Mechanisms
  14. Hippie Expand
  15. The NSA, Ciphers, and Backdoors
  16. Changing Directory to a Remote Machine
  17. Eight Hundred Quit Rather Than Go Back To The Office
  18. Some Useful Emacs Shortcuts
  19. Red Meat Friday: Nannies
  20. Torstein Johansen on Keyboard Macros & Multiple Cursors
  21. FIDO and The End of Passwords
  22. The Emacs 28 Edition of Mastering Emacs
  23. Following Org Links Outside of Org
  24. Org Roam From An Outsider’s View
  25. Renaming Files With Dired
  26. Red Meat Friday: Real Software Is Not Written with IDEs
  27. Pointers
  28. Choosing Your Tools
  29. Are Multiple Cursors Suboptimal?
  30. Another PhD Workflow
  31. Book Logging

April 2022

  1. Airbnb Faces and Adapts to the Future of Work
  2. Red Meat Friday: Coffee Confidential
  3. The Golden Age of Emacs
  4. A User Discovers the Difference Between Vim and Emacs
  5. An Apostate Returns
  6. Hints For Writing Unix Tools
  7. Editors versus IDEs
  8. Invoking the *Messages* Buffer
  9. Org Mode 9.5.3
  10. Tony Aldon On Catch/Throw
  11. Tony Aldon: Another Wgrep Workflow
  12. Never Say Never
  13. How I Spent My Summer Vacation
  14. Emacs and Calibre
  15. ERC: The Builtin Emacs IRC Chat Client
  16. Monorepositories
  17. A Second Brain in Plain Text
  18. Managers Want An End To Work From Home
  19. Curved Quotes in *HELP* and *MESSAGES* Buffers
  20. A Research Work Flow in Emacs and Org-mode
  21. What’s New In Emacs 28
  22. A Linux User Moves to Windows
  23. Red Meat Friday: As I’ve Said Before
  24. The ACM Backfile
  25. Lab Leak: The Video
  26. Org Modern
  27. Emacs 28.1
  28. April Fools Day
  29. Vanity Fair on the Origin of COVID-19
  30. The Power of Emacs

March 2022

  1. An Emacs User Looks at Acme
  2. Another Paean to RSS
  3. Taking Yegge’s Advice
  4. REPLs and Interactive Programming
  5. Searching As You Like It
  6. File Templates in Emacs
  7. Who Can Work From Home
  8. Steve Yegge on Emergency Emacs
  9. Protesilaos Stavrou on Emacs and Freedom
  10. Org Speed Keys Implementation
  11. Google To (Sometimes) Require ID in Australia
  12. Structuring Writing as a List
  13. LibreWolf
  14. Red Meat Friday: Internet Laws
  15. Emacs Command From Outside Emacs
  16. Webjump
  17. Emacs 28.0.92
  18. Twenty Two Years With Emacs
  19. Good and Bad Tags
  20. Stevey’s Guided Tour of Emacs
  21. Duck Duck Go Becomes Google
  22. Happy Birthday Dark Side of the Moon
  23. Transient Input Method
  24. Rectangle Mark Mode
  25. Understanding Hi-line-mode
  26. Reading RSS With Elfeed
  27. Setting latexpreview on Document Startup
  28. Red Meat Friday: Forget Linux, Just Use Emacs
  29. Derek Sivers on Plain Text
  30. How To Use Tags
  31. Using Paredit’s Slurp and Barf

February 2022

  1. Podcasts with Elfeed and EMMS
  2. Renaming Tags
  3. Scheme as a Prototyping Language
  4. Red Meat Friday: Taking Up Space With Metadata
  5. Six Useful Emacs Settings
  6. Guess Who Was Responsible for the Missouri SSN Leak
  7. Why Learn Scheme
  8. An Example of RSS Use
  9. The Year 2038 Problem
  10. The Bash Bible
  11. Delivery Robot Traffic Jam
  12. Ibuffer
  13. More on Google’s Poor Search Results
  14. Own A Color
  15. Symbols in Lisp
  16. Words and Ideas
  17. Some Comment Tips from Mickey
  18. Red Meat Friday: Résumé Gaps
  19. Emacs Extensibility
  20. Support Melpa
  21. Kernighan Podcast on Unix and C History
  22. Ecomplete
  23. EXWM and Keyboard Macros
  24. Annotations in Emacs
  25. Red Meat Friday: Infix in Lisp
  26. Journalists and the Origin of COVID-19
  27. Why You Should Learn Lisp This Year
  28. Early Unix at Bell Labs

January 2022

  1. Switching to Android
  2. Crosswords with Emacs
  3. Nerd Talk: Kernighan & McIlroy
  4. Red Meat Friday: Emacs Discoverability
  5. Bad Emacs Advice
  6. Finding the Directory of the File in a Buffer
  7. Open Access at Nature
  8. Combining Find and Grep in Emacs
  9. Adding To a Keyboard Macro
  10. MELPA Surpasses a Quarter Billion Downloads
  11. Red Meat Friday: SICP in JavaScript
  12. Automating Your Job
  13. Corner Quotes
  14. The UK Plans an Anti-encryption Campaign
  15. Users Sue PayPal
  16. Exporting Variables From Org-mode to LaTeX
  17. Source Block Executors
  18. Encoding, Encryption, and Hashing
  19. Blocking Apple’s Private Relay
  20. The Second Emacs 28 Pretest
  21. Emacs Calc Video
  22. Yak Shaving
  23. Raindrop
  24. More on Webster’s Revised Dictionary
  25. Red Meat Friday: Unix in the Browser
  26. Finding Repeated Words
  27. Is Norton Stealth Downloading a Cryptocurrency Miner?
  28. Another Look At Counting Org Tags
  29. Are Google Searches Losing Quality?
  30. Germany Gets It Right
  31. Draft 4 Revisited

2021 366

December 2021

  1. Emacs 28, Menus, and Mice
  2. Finite Automata State Diagrams With Tikz
  3. A Nice Example of Emacs Keyboard Macros
  4. Emacs Markdown Mode
  5. Running Asynchronous Processes in Eshell
  6. The Sam Editor
  7. Exporting Math to Word or LibreOffice
  8. Red Meat Friday: The Oxford Comma
  9. Emacs TIL
  10. Exporting Environments From Org-mode
  11. A Beautiful Example of Literate Programming In Org-mode
  12. Input Methods
  13. Attaching Files to an Org Tree from Dired
  14. What Could Go Wrong?
  15. Five Emacs Features to Love
  16. Emacs and Siri Shortcuts
  17. Five Hacks for Org Roam
  18. Deleting Garbage Files
  19. Real Crosswords
  20. Booster Shots and Other Reasons for Not Doing Any Work
  21. Native Compilation in Emacs
  22. Red Meat Friday: Cursive’s Last Stand
  23. Cloning Buffers
  24. An Emacs.app Bundle for macOS
  25. The Lab Leak
  26. Rethinking Email
  27. An Emacs Build Script for macOS
  28. Emacs 28 Pretest 1
  29. Red Meat Friday: See? This Is Why We Needed The Revolution
  30. Em-dash, The Video
  31. Emacs Dev Update 2021

November 2021

  1. Orgdown
  2. Org Executables
  3. V7 and the History of Unix
  4. Tree Sitter and Syntax Highlighting
  5. Emacs as a Lifestyle
  6. Proportional Fonts in the Mode Line
  7. Guile Hacker Handbook
  8. Campbell’s Law
  9. Measuring Network Quality in macOS
  10. Lisp at Kina
  11. Git History for Selected Text
  12. Red Meat Friday: Take That, Neovim
  13. Bozhidar Batsov Revists “Why Emacs”
  14. Rant: Medicare Advantage Ads
  15. Plain Org
  16. Hacking y-or-n-p
  17. Editing macOS Text Fields with Emacs
  18. Search Hydra
  19. Read Meat Friday: Chrome Is Not Your Friend Either
  20. Three N00b Emacs Mistakes
  21. Getting Closer to Walletless
  22. Updating describe-bindings
  23. How To Be an Ankle Biter
  24. Blogs and RSS
  25. Taking Math Notes With LaTeX in Emacs
  26. Leaving the Office is Easier Than Returning
  27. The Young Are Quitting Their Jobs
  28. The 40 Hour Work Week
  29. Question: Do You Primarily Read on Your Smartphone?
  30. Ivy Completions

October 2021

  1. Rant: Entering Credit Card Numbers
  2. If You Collect It, They Will Come
  3. Red Meat Friday: Shakespeare Was Right
  4. Keyword Warrants
  5. Zamansky 80: Completions and More
  6. Remote Work Offers
  7. Another COVID-19 Shoe Drops
  8. The Scimax Channel
  9. Florida Digital License Coming in November
  10. Red Meat Friday: Emacs Appearance
  11. The First Remote Worker
  12. How To Avoid Search Warrants
  13. RSS for the Researcher
  14. Emacs as a Tool for Scientists
  15. A Broken Way of Working
  16. Scimax Notebook
  17. Prosecuting the Press
  18. Lets in Elisp
  19. Zamansky-79: Project.el
  20. How Kitchin Uses Elfeed
  21. Zamansky-78: Grading Workflow
  22. Discarding Git Commits
  23. Spell Checking Kitchin Style
  24. Red Meat Friday: Spaces After a Sentence
  25. Playing and Logging a Random Album
  26. They Don’t Want to Return
  27. Magit 3.3 Released
  28. Kitchin on Elisp Data Structures
  29. Inspired Python
  30. Emacs 28 Is Drawing Near
  31. REPL Driven Programming in Python

September 2021

  1. Org-mode 9.5 Is Out
  2. Make Scripts Executable Automatically
  3. Easy Draw
  4. Spanish Punctuation in Org-mode
  5. Another Piece Falls Into Place In The COVID Puzzle
  6. Writing Elisp Functions
  7. Red Meat Friday: Dark Mode, Like It Or Not
  8. Drawing Diagrams in Emacs
  9. Iteration with Elisp
  10. String Formatting
  11. The COVID-19 Disinformation Campaign
  12. Embracing the Emacs Way
  13. Annotating a Text File
  14. Reverse Warrants Explode
  15. The Placement of Quotation Marks
  16. Time Tracking With Org-mode
  17. Another Emacs Configuration
  18. Two Mini Tutorials
  19. Quitting Safari
  20. Prot on Bookmarks
  21. Enabling Multiple Minor Modes
  22. Embedding Images in Text Files
  23. The Technical Problems with Apple’s CSAM Scanning
  24. Apropos Library
  25. Covid Warnings
  26. Some Prerequisite Reading
  27. Apple and Backdoors
  28. Yet Another Win For Open Access
  29. Melpa Reaches a Milestone
  30. Go

August 2021

  1. Who Needs a Smart Phone?
  2. Gain-Of-Function Research
  3. The Index
  4. Why Are People Apple Users?
  5. Vim vs. Emacs (and a Little Bit of ED)
  6. Journaling with Org-roam
  7. Introduction to Dired
  8. Why The Government Should Not Be Trusted With A Backdoor
  9. Another Step for Open Access in the UK
  10. The Most Useful Emacs Operations
  11. How To Reach Apple
  12. The Tale of the Fake Sign
  13. Emacs for Screenwriters
  14. Amazon and Walmart
  15. War Is Peace
  16. In Defense of C
  17. Prettifying Org-mode
  18. Apple Doesn’t Want to Hear from Me
  19. Red Meat Friday: Vim Doom
  20. Betrayal
  21. Org-roam Templates
  22. The Hole Hawg
  23. Org-ref-cite Video
  24. Org Cite
  25. Malware Using “Exotic” Languages
  26. Eight Reasons Emacs Is The Best Editor
  27. Techdirt Steps Up
  28. Editing Browser Input in Emacs
  29. Managers and Remote Work
  30. Progress ⁢⨉ 2
  31. Org-roam As a Second Brain

July 2021

  1. More on Writing Academic Papers with Org-mode
  2. Red Meat Friday: Just Punishment
  3. Writing Academic Papers With Org-mode
  4. How We Know the Open Office Concept Has Failed
  5. Some Custom Commands from Prot
  6. Ten More Emacs Tips
  7. Logging mbsync Errors
  8. Medical Research Has Forfeited Our Trust
  9. Prot on Dired
  10. Karl Voit on the Reply-To Header
  11. System Crafters: Magit 2
  12. PSA: Mastering Emacs is On Sale Until Monday
  13. Calc Formulae in the Minibuffer
  14. Google Drive and Censorship
  15. Remote Work in Australia
  16. Like Musical Instruments for Musicians
  17. Does Piracy Affect Sales?
  18. Query: Emacs Vterm on the M1
  19. See the Underlying Org Entry for an Agenda Item
  20. It’s Time For iPhone Users To Dump Google Maps
  21. Lesser Known Functionalities in Core Emacs
  22. Debugging Field Formulae in Org Tables
  23. Ten Useful Emacs Tips
  24. Irreal Is 12
  25. A Call To Ban Surveillance Advertising
  26. Weather Alert
  27. Running Emacs from Systemd
  28. The New Luddites Go After Digital Wallets
  29. Using Tramp
  30. Video Introduction to Magit
  31. Red Meat Friday: Dark Mode and Sanity
  32. Brian Kernighan on the Birth of Unix

June 2021

  1. Punch Cards
  2. Another Reason Elfeed Is The Best RSS Reader
  3. Lisp and Replace-Regexp
  4. The Evolution of Unix
  5. Innovation at the Office
  6. Red Meat Friday: Unintended Consequences
  7. Technology Saves the World
  8. The New Luddites on the Apple Wallet
  9. The Digital Wallet Moves Forward
  10. Demonstration of Dired Video
  11. YASnippet in Eshell
  12. Universities Continue Their Slow Motion Suicide
  13. Red Meat Friday: Emacs or VS Code
  14. Adtech and FLoC
  15. Configuring Emacs as a Go IDE
  16. Working From Home and Bosses
  17. More on the Why of Emacs
  18. The Iron Law and The National Health Service
  19. Tramp Mode with Zsh
  20. Red Meat Friday: Another One Sees The Light
  21. Molding Emacs
  22. COVID-19: How We Got Here
  23. Another Look At COVID-19’s Origin
  24. Updating Emacs Packages from the Command Line
  25. An Org Setup
  26. The EU’s Digital Wallet
  27. Some Workers Are Quitting Rather Than Go Back to the Office
  28. Emacs in 2021
  29. Google Is Not Your Friend
  30. Getting a List of Open PRs from Github (Part 2)

May 2021

  1. The Apple Ecosystem
  2. Markup Languages Compared
  3. Corruption in Academic Computer Science
  4. How The Package System Works
  5. Washington State Sues a Patent Troll
  6. Google Channels Lucy
  7. Magit 3.0 Released
  8. Sudo
  9. Mechanical Keyboards
  10. Two Tramp Tricks
  11. Science and Politics
  12. Org 9.4.6 Released
  13. Tools for Your Development Environment
  14. Emacs and Web Browsing
  15. Ivy To Selectrum
  16. Protesilaos Stavrou on Notmuch
  17. Writing A Programming Book
  18. Distraction Free Writing
  19. A Year With Emacs
  20. Nick Higham’s Blogging Workflow
  21. Being More Productive with Emacs
  22. Getting a List of Open PRs from Github
  23. Correcting Text Messages
  24. Whence COVID-19
  25. Red Meat Friday: Y2K Redux
  26. Git With Solo Projects
  27. Fish Sticks
  28. Using Org-capture With Org-drill
  29. Paper on Native Compilation
  30. Three Useful Emacs Packages
  31. Marks and Regions

April 2021

  1. Red Meat Friday: How Not To Design Signs
  2. And You Don’t Mess Around With Jim
  3. Bastien on Using TODO Lists Efficiently
  4. The Post Office and Surveillance
  5. Two Quickies
  6. Multiple Help Buffers
  7. The Open Office Is Dead
  8. Native Compilation Will Probably Be Merged This Weekend
  9. Fifteen Days with Dired
  10. Law Enforcement Pirates
  11. Switching to Emacs
  12. Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features
  13. Writing Technical Documents with Org Mode
  14. Walmart and Apple Pay: What COVID-19 Taught Me
  15. Red Meat Friday: Journalists (Again)
  16. Reasons for Clojure
  17. Emacs Diary and Calendar
  18. Deactivate Mark
  19. Mickey on Native Compilation
  20. Name & Shame: Procter & Gamble
  21. Native Compilation: Ready to Merge
  22. Red Meat Friday: Journalism
  23. Running a Shell Command from Emacs
  24. No Post Today
  25. Justice!
  26. The TSA: Keeping Us Safe From Cash
  27. Reading PDF Files with DocView
  28. An Org Workflow
  29. Red Meat Friday: Text Editors in Lord of the Rings
  30. The Interactive Declaration and Modes

March 2021

  1. The Info Index
  2. Deleting Git Branches
  3. A New Version of Mu/Mu4e Is Coming
  4. Org Mode 9.4.5 Released
  5. More’s Law
  6. Emacs 27.2 Installed
  7. Emacs 27.2 Is Out
  8. Emacs and TRON
  9. An Mbsync Tip
  10. UK Police and Sci-Hub: Not Helping
  11. Control the Apple Music App from Emacs
  12. Emacs 27.2 Is Almost Here
  13. Red Meat Friday: Prettifying Emacs
  14. Industrial R&D Labs
  15. Book Publishing with LaTeX and Pandoc
  16. Does Targeted Advertising Work?
  17. Why Use RSS
  18. Piracy Doesn’t Exist
  19. Newspapers and Writing
  20. Red Meat Friday: Python Is Not a Great Language
  21. Google and the Petro Curse
  22. Happy 48th Birthday, Dark Side of the Moon
  23. The Most Vital Language
  24. Query: Emacs on the M1
  25. Data Leverage
  26. Clojure and Scheme Compared
  27. Red Meat Friday: Offend a Programmer
  28. Brown M&Ms
  29. On Passwords and SolarWinds
  30. How to Implement a Zettelkasten Link Type in Org
  31. An Interview with SciHub’s Alexandra Elbakyan

February 2021

  1. Emacs Writer
  2. Facebook and Apple
  3. Red Meat Friday: Programmers—Then & Now
  4. Tracking Pixels
  5. Customizing the Agenda
  6. Maintainers and Expectations
  7. Designing with Finite State Machines
  8. Configuring Mbsync to Work with Gmail
  9. Managing Window Placement
  10. Red Meat Friday: Word
  11. Some Z Shell Tricks
  12. Exporting Org to HTML
  13. Paul Graham: What I Worked On
  14. Sleeping in Unfamiliar Places
  15. REPL Driven Development
  16. Fixing Two Spaces Between Sentences
  17. Red Meat Friday: The End of the Story
  18. (goto-char 1) vs. (goto-char (point-min))
  19. Burner Emails
  20. Video Demonstration of Org-roam
  21. Emacs Editing
  22. Mouseless
  23. Irreal Problems
  24. Red Meat Friday: Real Programmers Use TECO
  25. An Example of Literate Programming
  26. Transient Mark Mode
  27. Using a Local Emacs From a Remote Host
  28. Symlink Copying with Dired

January 2021

  1. Kids and Typewriters
  2. Emacs 27.2 Pretest 2 Is Out
  3. Read Meat Friday: The Editor Wars
  4. Reading HTML Emails with Mu4e
  5. Sending HTML Mail With Mu4e
  6. Modernizing Emacs (Again)
  7. Editing Anki Cards with Org Mode
  8. Using Emacs & Org in College (Programming) Assignments
  9. The New Luddites at Their Most Malignant
  10. Rmail
  11. Org To Beamer
  12. A Symbolics and Space Cadet Keyboard
  13. System Crafters: Using Mu4e
  14. Knuth on Writing
  15. Note Making
  16. Yesterday’s Date
  17. Chris Wellons on State Machines
  18. Knuth’s Literate Programming Paper
  19. Setting Up Mu4e
  20. Setting Up and Using Authinfo With Emacs
  21. Adding a Third Monitor to EXWM
  22. Prot on Embark
  23. Group Tags in Org-mode
  24. Read Meat Friday: A Trojan In Your Editor
  25. The Guile Hacker’s Handbook
  26. Building A Password Generator in 3 Minutes
  27. Why You Should Learn Emacs This Year
  28. Adtech Fraud at Uber
  29. REPLs
  30. Tangling Dotfiles From an Org File
  31. Abo-abo on Org-Roam

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December 2020

  1. Happy New Year
  2. A Global Hyper Key
  3. Emacs FAQ
  4. More on Emacs and the Unix Way
  5. Emacs As a 2D CLI
  6. Org Mode for Reproducible Research
  7. Red Meat Friday: C++
  8. This Is Tech Journalism II
  9. Finding Pangrams in the NYT Spelling Bee Puzzle
  10. Mastering Emacs is a Slow But Enjoyable Process
  11. Emacs for the Humanities
  12. Emacs 27.1.90 Is Out
  13. Org Spreadsheet Tutorial
  14. The New Luddites Come for Our Spellcheckers
  15. Letting Google Control Your Home
  16. New SSL Certificate
  17. Bit By Bit?
  18. More Batteries
  19. Unlimited Storage for Life
  20. Sorting with Regular Expressions
  21. Bozhidar Batsov’s Favorite Packages
  22. Threading Macros in Elisp
  23. This Is Tech Journalism
  24. The Social Life of Forests
  25. LaTeX vs. Word Redux
  26. Phone Notifications When a Command Completes
  27. Zamansky: More Advent of Code and Clojure
  28. Zamansky on Clojure and Cider
  29. Repeating Commands in Emacs
  30. The DEA Supplies Another Example
  31. The Iron Law and Abuse

November 2020

  1. Keyboards for Emacs
  2. Cloning a Repository
  3. Managing Servers with Org
  4. Mastering Emacs Update
  5. Cover Your Tracks
  6. Emacs in the Terminal
  7. Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp
  8. The Worst Passwords of 2020
  9. A Free Blog with Org and GitLab
  10. Coding Fonts
  11. A Nineteenth Century Emacs
  12. Sudo by Touch ID on Macs
  13. Batteries Included
  14. Leanpub Publishing with Emacs
  15. Emacs Indentation
  16. Asimov on Science and Superstition
  17. The Biggest Problem with Org-mode
  18. An Advantage of Emacs Centrism
  19. Lean and the Mathematical Library of the Future
  20. Weather Alert
  21. Adtech and Bad Data
  22. Mu/Mu4e on Linux
  23. Dijkstra
  24. Unix As Literature
  25. Ball Point Pens
  26. File and Directory Local Variables
  27. Another Org Workflow
  28. Reproducibility
  29. The Trial
  30. Unix Pipes

October 2020

  1. James Bond
  2. The Map
  3. Taking Math Class Notes With Emacs
  4. The NSA Stonewalls Congress
  5. Literate Calc Mode
  6. Algol 68, Pascal, C, and All That
  7. Orgmode.org Has a New Look
  8. The Danger of Web Forums
  9. Zamansky 76: Bookmarks and Burly
  10. You Are Not Expected to Understand This Redux
  11. A New Organ?
  12. Hardware vs. Software
  13. The Wizard Book Cover Explained
  14. Programmatic Programming with Graphviz
  15. Emacs Shells
  16. Voting in Estonia
  17. How To Get Rid of Cookie Popups
  18. A Medievalist Uses Emacs
  19. Everyday Carry Progress Report
  20. Org Code Block Results
  21. Useful Tools
  22. Compiling Gccemacs on macOS
  23. Is Emacs Doomed?
  24. Rainer König’s Org-mode Tutorials as a Udemy Course
  25. Reinstalling Packages
  26. More on Emacs Keybindings in macOS
  27. Research Tools for the Beginner
  28. Introduction to Emacs Profiling
  29. The Webster 1913 Dictionary
  30. The Types Controversy Explained
  31. Red Meat Friday: Modernizing Emacs
  32. Long Line Remediation

September 2020

  1. Gnus and Gmail
  2. An Org Template for Meeting Minutes
  3. The Org Agenda
  4. The Law of Unintended Consequences
  5. Document Preparation with Org, LaTeX, and Docker
  6. Blocking Melpa
  7. Doom for N00bs
  8. Zamansky 75: Bufler
  9. Taking Notes By Hand
  10. Binder for Your Writing Projects
  11. Panic’s Nova Editor
  12. Leveraging Emacs Introspection
  13. Describe Package
  14. Online Voting and Banking
  15. Prelude 1.0
  16. Daring Fireball on Tracking Redux
  17. Org Mode 9.4 Released
  18. An Update for whole-line-or-region
  19. Happy Programmers Day
  20. An Emacs Workflow for Videos and Podcasts
  21. Life Imitates Literature
  22. Unix Names Explained
  23. Online Privacy; Real World Privacy
  24. Avi Navigation
  25. Gnus
  26. Grading With AI
  27. Wireless Charging Problems with the iPhone
  28. Finite State Machines in Python
  29. Two Clicks Needed for Menus on macOS
  30. Typing and Bottlenecks

August 2020

  1. Zamansky 74: Eglot
  2. Tracking Exercise with Org-mode
  3. Hyperbole
  4. Amazon & Antitrust
  5. From SMS to an Org TODO
  6. Another Thesaurus for Emacs
  7. The Costs of Mobile Data
  8. Using Multiple Dictionaries for Spellchecking in Emacs
  9. Gccemacs on Linux
  10. Native Emacs Compilation on macOS
  11. Red Meat Friday: WTF
  12. How To Increase Your Typing Speed
  13. Mickey on Emacs 27.1
  14. Running Messaging Apps from Emacs
  15. Video: Emacs Tools for Writers
  16. Bozhidar Batsov on Emacs 27.1
  17. Steve Yegge on Emacs and Google
  18. RMF: Emacs and Vim Are Not Line Editors
  19. Screenshots in Emacs on macOS
  20. PDFs and the Web
  21. Emacs 27.1 Has Been Released
  22. Troubleshooting Mu4e Update
  23. A Proposal to Ban Adtech
  24. The Frame Patch
  25. Emacs 27.1-RC2
  26. Rolling Your Own Emacs Modal Mode
  27. Zettelkasten Explained and Demoed
  28. Zettelkasten Goes Mainstream
  29. A Short Tutorial on ERT
  30. Troubleshooting Mu4e
  31. Update On My 27.1RC1 Experience

July 2020

  1. Red Meat Friday: Offered Without Comment
  2. Emacs 27.1-RC1
  3. Super-links
  4. An Emacs/Org-mode Setup for Writing
  5. The Right Dictionary and How to Get It
  6. Strong Opinions Loosely Held
  7. A Paper-Like Emacs Writing Configuration
  8. The Withering of Office Space
  9. Quit Processes on Exit from Emacs
  10. Inserting Newlines in the Mac’s Messages App
  11. A Shortcut Manager for My Emacs-centric Workstation
  12. Emacs for Everything
  13. Emacs Keybindings on macOS Redux
  14. Polyglot Documents in Org-mode
  15. Red Meat Friday: Word as a Random Number Generator
  16. Emacsclient and macOS
  17. Websockets from Emacs
  18. Idiosyncrasies in Academic Publishing
  19. Ransomware: Prevention & Recovery
  20. Magit: The Emacs Killer App
  21. Some Remote Works Tips from Backblaze
  22. The 500 Mile Email
  23. Organizing Workflow with Notion (and Org-mode)
  24. Tracking on Steroids
  25. A Passport on Your iPhone
  26. Some Register Tips
  27. Wanted: The World’s Smallest Violin
  28. Org Covers 90% of Blogger’s Life
  29. Red Meat Friday: What Could Have Been
  30. Sci Hub and Citations
  31. Eshell vs. Shell

June 2020

  1. A New Take on the Emacs Tutorial
  2. Protecting Yourself from Surveillance
  3. Selective Display
  4. Facebook and Whois
  5. Some Org Table Examples
  6. Org Source Blocks
  7. Privacy Pirates
  8. On Amazon and Walmart
  9. Using an ODT Style Sheet With Org Mode
  10. Emacs: The Editor for All Seasons
  11. Elfeed for Videos
  12. Red Meat Friday: Is Dark Mode a Good Idea?
  13. Monitors
  14. Fixing Email
  15. Another One Falls
  16. Zamansky 73: Ripgrep
  17. Org Table Export
  18. Consistent Documents Redux
  19. A Graphviz Go-By
  20. Emacs Comment Functions
  21. More Google Suits
  22. Editor Keystrokes
  23. Zettelkastens in 10 Minutes
  24. What Could Go Wrong?
  25. A Handwriting Font
  26. Red Meat Friday: Atom and VSCode
  27. Summarizing Class Notes
  28. More on the Websockets Port Scanning
  29. Arizona Sues Google
  30. More On The Magit Initial Status Page

May 2020

  1. Escape from VSCode
  2. Ed in Emacs
  3. Red Meat Friday: Star Wars and the Light/Dark Controversy
  4. Dubious Password Advice
  5. Emacs Through Macros 7–9
  6. An Org Refile Workflow
  7. Eshell Demo
  8. Websockets: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
  9. Elfeed Tweaks
  10. Zamansky 72: Customizing Elfeed
  11. The NYT and Customer Surveillance
  12. Advanced Usage of the Org Agenda
  13. Setting the Initial Visibility of Magit Sections
  14. Work From Home Surveillance
  15. Roam Research
  16. Emacs By Macros 6
  17. Manhattan and Working From Home
  18. Zamansky 71: Openwith
  19. Digital Payments in Developing Countries
  20. Better Emacs Configuration with use-package
  21. Zetteldeft
  22. COVID-19 and Open Offices
  23. Zettelkasten Explained
  24. Red Meat Friday: iPhones and Sanity
  25. Learning Emacs with Macros 2–5
  26. Vivek Haldar on How Unix Won
  27. Minibuffer Help
  28. Compiling Elisp to Native Code
  29. One Person’s Take on Dark Mode
  30. Five Underappreciated Reasons to Appreciate Emacs
  31. Comments on the Usefulness of Emacs for Scientists

April 2020

  1. Degoogling
  2. GNU Global
  3. Microsoft Stirs the Pot on Spaces After a Period
  4. Using Elfeed
  5. The Org Code Edit Buffer
  6. The Corona Virus and Digital Wallets
  7. Red Meat Friday: The Best Editor
  8. The Corona Virus and the Cashless Society
  9. Learning Emacs With Macros
  10. The Git lab Remote Work Report
  11. Fifteen Reasons to Prefer Emacs
  12. Emacs Is Not An Editor
  13. A Workflow For Writing A Book
  14. An Organizational Workflow
  15. Working From Home: The Preferences
  16. Using Org Mode to Create LaTeX Documents
  17. Making Money in Self Publishing
  18. Software Antibloat
  19. Emacs and Vi(m)
  20. Emacs as Malleable Software
  21. Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs A Small Editor?
  22. Date Ranges
  23. Emacs is a Well-Honed Tool
  24. Hardware Microphone Interlock
  25. Using Emacs as a Python IDE
  26. Schneier on Zoom Security
  27. An Annotated Bibliography with Org Mode
  28. Ten Tips for Getting Started With Emacs
  29. New Image on Blog Page
  30. Using Notion as a Zettelkasten

March 2020

  1. Tips for an Effective Home Office
  2. Implementing a Zettelkasten with Org Mode
  3. A Repository for Writing a Thesis With Org Mode
  4. Zamansky 70: Org Protocol
  5. The Failure to Social Isolate Illustrated
  6. Quarantini
  7. The PhD Movies
  8. Working From Home, Mac Edition
  9. Coffee
  10. Zamansky 69: Floobits
  11. Migrating from Emacs to Doom
  12. Data is Toxic Waste
  13. Interactive SQL Queries With Org-mode
  14. Surprising Unix Programs
  15. Elfeed and Goto-address
  16. Zamansky 68: Tramp and Org-publish
  17. Sort and Uniq
  18. COVID-19 and Data Caps
  19. Blogging With (Only) Emacs
  20. Smart Notes
  21. Org and Anki
  22. Happy 47th Birthday, Dark Side of the Moon
  23. COVID-19
  24. Notion and Org Mode
  25. Innumeracy and the Press
  26. Some Simple Tramp Tricks
  27. File Hierarchies
  28. The First Pretest for Emacs 27.1 is Ready
  29. Raw Data and Reproducible Research
  30. TECO
  31. An Introduction to Org Capture

February 2020

  1. Revolt of the Librarians
  2. Using Org Capture Globally
  3. Tom Tromey on the Future of Emacs
  4. Even Google Employees Are Trying to Escape
  5. Who Cares About Emacs?
  6. Refcards
  7. Zamansky 67: Emacs vs. Vi(m)
  8. A Comparison of Vim and Emacs
  9. An Org Mode Workflow for Spacemacs
  10. Progress Report
  11. Red Alert
  12. Regular Expressions in 30 Lines of C
  13. Dark-Mode vs. Light-Mode Again
  14. Emacs Variables
  15. When Will They Ever Learn?
  16. Org 9.3.6
  17. How To Start a Common Lisp Project
  18. Emacs As a Terminal IDE
  19. Bastien’s Org-mode Tricks
  20. Working Remotely at Ars Technica
  21. Zamansky 66: An Eshell Switcher
  22. Finding Intersections Redux
  23. Restoring the Elfeed Default Filter
  24. Thought of the Day
  25. Palindromes With a Sufficiently Smart Compiler
  26. Zamansky 65: Live Python
  27. Today is a Palindrome
  28. Keeping a Table Header Fixed While Scrolling

January 2020

  1. Spacemacs for Writers
  2. A Test for the Iron Law
  3. Finding The Intersection of Two Lists
  4. Org Mode 9.3.2
  5. Another Great Example of Recursion
  6. Undo Region
  7. Surprise! Online Advertisers Are Breaking The Law
  8. Makefiles for Elisp
  9. Another Victory in the Walletless Crusade
  10. Karl Voit on Starting to Use Org-mode
  11. Digital Inheritance
  12. The Ebola Vaccine That Almost Didn’t Happen
  13. Zamansky 64: Notmuch Mail Client
  14. How Fast Is Ripgrep?
  15. Quitting Google: A Story
  16. The Online Shopping Experience
  17. Using Org-mode To Capture and Report Git Commits
  18. Little Improvements Add Up
  19. Zamansky: ClojureScript 2
  20. Ebook Stupidity
  21. Emacs Modifier Keys on the Mac
  22. The Undo-tree Bugs
  23. Zamansky 63: ClojureScript
  24. Will Federally Financed Research Have to Be Open Access?
  25. A Palindrome Predicate Coda
  26. SBCL 2.0.0
  27. Is Cash Still King?
  28. Adding System Notifications to Your Org Agenda
  29. SICP with JavaScript
  30. In Praise of C
  31. Why (or Why Not) Switch to Emacs

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December 2019

  1. Emacs for Writers
  2. Easing the Use of Strong Passwords on a WiFi Router
  3. Remote Work Will Become the New Normal
  4. Query Replace with Occur
  5. Org Mode 9.3.1
  6. Implementing Palindrome Predicates
  7. Emacs Screencasts
  8. Emacs 27 Release Branch
  9. Plain Text For the Social Sciences
  10. John Wiegley on Emacs 27
  11. A Useful Tip for the Holidays
  12. Emacs As Your Shell
  13. CNBC on Open Source
  14. Mailfence
  15. Irreal SSL Certificate Update
  16. Google Blocking Some Browsers?
  17. A Bit of Wisdom…
  18. Displaying Org-mode Notifications Natively on MacOS
  19. Strategies for Remote Work
  20. Expired SSL Certificate
  21. Building a Personal Knowledge Base
  22. Keeping An Open Access Site Online
  23. How to Alias Car and Cdr and Why You Probably Shouldn’t
  24. How To Wrap The MacBook Power Cord
  25. Car and Cdr versus Head and Tail
  26. BPF: A New Type of Software
  27. Techie Luddites
  28. The Myth of the Young Entrepreneur
  29. Org 9.3
  30. An HTML Email Coda
  31. A Vim User Explores Emacs Distributions
  32. Typesetting Tables with Booktabs

November 2019

  1. PSA: How To Hotkey Into Messages in MacOS Catalina
  2. Claim: 95% of Users Prefer Dark Mode
  3. Any Well Shuffled Card Deck Is Almost Certainly Unique
  4. HTML Email
  5. Perry Metzger: The Editor for the Next 40 Years
  6. Scimax and Reproducibility
  7. Emacs 27.1 Coming
  8. The Pros and Cons of a Cashless Society
  9. Chris Wellons on PRNGs
  10. What Did They Think Was Going To Happen?
  11. Ken Thompson Talks About Computer Chess
  12. Zamansky 62: Magit Forge
  13. Probably the Worst Password Advice You’ll Ever See
  14. Generating Technical Documents with Org-mode
  15. Zamansky 61: Org-msg
  16. Generating Gantt Charts with Org-mode
  17. The Demise of the Car Key
  18. Emacs Resources for Writers
  19. Remote Debugging With Tramp
  20. List Commits to Dired-Marked Files
  21. Digital Payments in India
  22. Project and Org Mode
  23. PayPal Says the Death of Cash Is Here
  24. What Would a Digital Society Look Like?
  25. The Horrors of Word
  26. Moving Icons Between Smartphone Screens
  27. Searching Your Personal Data
  28. Emacs Markdown Cheatsheet
  29. Inline Tasks
  30. A Suggestion for a New Smartphone Function

October 2019

  1. Light-Mode vs. Dark-Mode Again
  2. Emacs “Plugins”
  3. An Interview With Hal Abelson
  4. Organice
  5. When Gmail Isn’t Free
  6. Zamansky 60: Restclient
  7. Red Meat Friday
  8. An Update on Emacs and macOS Catalina
  9. Clearing Out the Eshell Buffer
  10. Getting Tough on the Corporate Snoopers
  11. Asynchronous Communication
  12. Navigating With Spacemacs
  13. Zamansky 59: Markdown
  14. A Talk With Brian Kernighan
  15. Emacs and MacOS Catalina
  16. The Many Functions of a Smartphone
  17. More on Cashless
  18. Generating Slides and a PDF From the Same Org File
  19. Just A Reminder…
  20. Toasters, New and Old
  21. Swiper and Multiple Cursors
  22. Ken Thompson’s Password
  23. Cashless
  24. Zamansky 58: LSP Mode
  25. Obsolete Tech That Refuses to Die
  26. More on the 737 MAX
  27. Emacs Keybindings on MacOS
  28. Uses This Interview with Chris Wellons
  29. A Quick Tutorial on Elisp Macros
  30. The Times They Are A-changin’
  31. Elisp in Eshell

September 2019

  1. Dark Mode
  2. Living Without a Wallet
  3. You Are Not the User
  4. The Using Org Mode Features Posts
  5. Hacker Laws
  6. Tags and Categories in Org Mode
  7. How to Keep a Lab Notebook
  8. Is It Time to Get Rid of The P-Test?
  9. Speaking of Passwords
  10. Troy Hunt on Bank Passwords
  11. The New Luddites Take Off the Mask
  12. Four Org-mode Talks
  13. Emacs Workout
  14. The New York Times Proves My Point
  15. The Google Nest Hub Max
  16. Exporting Only the Contents of An Org Subtree
  17. Bad Password Policies
  18. Dumb-jump 0.5.3
  19. Mozilla Talks About Its Plans for DoH
  20. Saving the Planet With Smartphones
  21. Using R With Emacs and ESS
  22. Opening Images in Emacs
  23. Curl Recipes
  24. Apple Secrecy and the Tech Press
  25. Emacs or Vi
  26. The Google GDPR Workaround
  27. Org Mode 9.2.6
  28. Tips For Working Remotely
  29. Remembering Unix at 50
  30. Weather Alert

August 2019

  1. Open Office Sanity Strategies
  2. The Remote Work Report
  3. Emacs 26.3 Released
  4. Seven Bash Tips
  5. Emacs For a Single Line of Text
  6. Scroll All Mode
  7. Google on Tracking
  8. Paul Ford on Uses This
  9. Emacs 26.3-RC1
  10. A Real World Use Case of Occur
  11. Apple Gets Serious About Web Tracking
  12. The Emacs Problem Revisited
  13. The Truth About PowerPoint
  14. Using Directory Local Variables
  15. The Nature of Lisp
  16. The Beat Goes On
  17. Six Useful Git Tips
  18. ELPA Failing to Load Packages
  19. The DMV and NULL: A Cautionary Tale
  20. The Never Googlers
  21. What Happened At Boeing?
  22. An Emacs Tale From Bizarro World
  23. Another Why I Use Emacs
  24. Managing Dotfiles with Org
  25. Composability in Vim
  26. Bayes’ Theorem and The Replication Crisis
  27. Emacscalc Script
  28. Can A Programming Language Be Too Powerful?
  29. Adversarial Interoperability
  30. Org Mode 9.2.5 Is Released
  31. An Interesting Emacs User

July 2019

  1. Emacs Users…
  2. Emacs Users Are Igors
  3. MAlt: CERN Strikes a Blow for Open Source
  4. Building an Emacs Mode to Improve Your Workflow
  5. The Pros and Cons of Emacs
  6. An Org/Hugo Workflow for Blogging
  7. Minimalism
  8. The Holy War
  9. Vim vs. Emacs
  10. The First Rule
  11. Making The Results Block Executable
  12. Fun and Games
  13. The Speed of Offlineimap vs. Mbsync
  14. The Gauntlet Is Thrown
  15. Text Based Email Clients
  16. Update to Writing a Thesis With Org Mode
  17. Is Emacs an Editor Framework?
  18. Long Lines in Emacs
  19. Reverse i-search With Ivy
  20. Internet Villains: Never Mind
  21. The Cool Kids Don’t Use Emacs
  22. Pausing Emacs Keyboard Macros
  23. Files As Org Capture Templates
  24. Ten Years
  25. VisiCalc Redux
  26. Internet Villains
  27. Making a Function a Command
  28. Deciding What Functions To Do In Emacs
  29. Chrome Has Become Surveillanceware
  30. Mickey on Polymode
  31. Microsoft Ebooks: The Past Comes Due

June 2019

  1. Ivy, Swiper, and Counsel Gain a New User
  2. Ivy and Directories
  3. iPhone Security
  4. GitHub/GitLab Pull Requests from Emacs
  5. Judge Orenstein in the New York Times
  6. Haldar Reads Reflections on Trusting Trust
  7. Light or Dark
  8. Working With Google Cloud Compute Instances in Emacs
  9. The Open Access Wars
  10. Emacs! In the New York Times!
  11. Org List Repair
  12. Emacs Bug Reporting Workflow
  13. Using Org-mode to Make Beautiful Documents
  14. Orgzly
  15. The Data Gatherers Are Out Of Control
  16. Notmuch For Email
  17. Emacs 26.2.90
  18. The Government Can’t Protect Your Data Either
  19. Org 9.2.4 Is Released
  20. The Portable Operating System
  21. Unicode Escape Sequences in Emacs Strings
  22. Why Emacs
  23. The Unpickable Lock
  24. Correcting Org Tags
  25. Remote-First Companies
  26. Revisiting Abrams’ Capture Techniques
  27. Writing Academic Papers
  28. Notion
  29. How to Limit Google Tracking You
  30. Cell Phones and the Crime Rate

May 2019

  1. Hidden Gems #4: TODOs
  2. The Story of VisiCalc
  3. A Year of Emacs
  4. Taking It Very Seriously
  5. More on Multics Emacs
  6. The Past Comes Due for Equifax
  7. Toggling iTerm2 Full Screen Mode
  8. Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix in Org-mode
  9. A Long Form Writing Environment
  10. Working Remotely
  11. Some Useful Bash Variables
  12. Magit in Spacemacs
  13. Collaboration in ed(1)
  14. A Nice AWK One-liner
  15. An Emacs Journey
  16. Adding Your YouTube Subscriptions to Elfeed
  17. Markdown in Org-mode
  18. A Development Environment
  19. Refactoring in Spacemacs
  20. More Org Gems: Tables
  21. Org-mode Gems
  22. Another Org-mode with Spacemacs Tutorial
  23. Alzheimer’s and Gaming
  24. Tabs and Indentation in Emacs
  25. Brian Kernighan & Ken Thompson Chat
  26. A Practical Guide to Sed
  27. A Practical Guide to Understanding AWK
  28. Two Nice Org-mode Tutorials
  29. Introduction to Spacemacs
  30. Logging Money with Org-mode
  31. Making Design Documents with Org-mode

April 2019

  1. Using C-x 4 in Emacs
  2. Drawing Figures in Math Lectures
  3. Orgmode-TV: How I Plan My Days
  4. An Easy Tutorial for Setting Up Mu4e and Mbsync
  5. Literature Management with Emacs
  6. A Short Org Table Tutorial
  7. Vivek Haldar on Why He’s Video Blogging
  8. Vivek Haldar: Global Variables
  9. The Power of Vanilla Emacs
  10. The Dream Draws Nearer
  11. How Uber Debugged a Latency Problem
  12. Emacs Future History
  13. Refactoring Prose With Org Mode
  14. EmacsCast: The Video
  15. Microsoft Is Closing Its Ebook Store
  16. RSS vs. Twitter
  17. Mu/mu4e 1.2 Available
  18. Emacs 26.2 Has Been Released
  19. The Recentering Sequence
  20. Some Pithy Advice to Engineers About Crypto
  21. Git and Plain Text for Writers
  22. Screen Real Estate
  23. Zamansky 57: Dired Subtree and Narrow
  24. Swiper-isearch
  25. The Magic of a Write-Enabled Dired
  26. When You Should Use Gotos
  27. Dvorak and QWERTY
  28. Org Mode 9.2.3 Has Been Released
  29. Understanding the Emacs Font System
  30. OrgMode Tutorial Plans

March 2019

  1. Privacy.io
  2. Custom Highlighting
  3. An Analysis of Some Password Managers
  4. Open Offices Again
  5. Benchmarking in Emacs
  6. Employees Hate Open Offices
  7. Vivek Haldar Reads “Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control”
  8. Taking Notes in LaTeX
  9. Deleting Blank Lines
  10. Release Candidate 1 for Emacs 26.2 Is Out
  11. An Application of Bayes’ Theorem to Differential Privacy
  12. Differential Privacy
  13. Numbering Org Table Rows
  14. Running Your Life With Emacs
  15. Goto
  16. Dealing with GitHub Pull Requests in Emacs
  17. How and Why To Normalize Unicode
  18. EmacsCast #8: Writing
  19. An Afterword on Being Almost There
  20. A History of the Development of C
  21. Almost There
  22. Guess What Day It Is
  23. Zamansky: A Quick Review of Editors
  24. Texting and Line Editing
  25. Another Org-based Writing Environment
  26. UC Strikes a Blow for Open Access
  27. Today I Learned…
  28. Org-mode 9.2.2 is Out
  29. Some Wisdom on Pipelines
  30. Refugees
  31. That Didn’t Take Long
  32. International Beat Up on Vim Day?

February 2019

  1. Running Emacs as Your OS
  2. A Nice Linux Desktop Setup
  3. Running a Bakery with Org-mode and PostgreSQL
  4. Reason Number Googol To Avoid Google
  5. Emacs 26.1.92 Is Out
  6. Some Words of Wisdom from Tim Bray
  7. Stephen Wolfram’s Personal Infrastructure
  8. What wc Means by Lines
  9. Inserting the Current File Name
  10. Elisp Cheat Sheet
  11. Zamansky: GitHub Classroom 2
  12. Copying the Whole Buffer
  13. Selling 911 Location Data
  14. New Data Privacy Tip Twitter Account from John D Cook
  15. Securing Your iPhone
  16. Sharing Data Among Org-mode Blocks
  17. Unix and Linux History from Maddog
  18. NeoTree and Perspectives
  19. Org Capture and Refiling
  20. Using Keyboard Macros to Ease Drudgework
  21. Fighting the Surveillance Economy
  22. Calc Tutorial
  23. Run Your Life With Emacs
  24. Just in Case You Still Thought “Google Is Your Friend”
  25. Org 9.2.1
  26. Managing Dependencies
  27. Zamansky: Travis-CI
  28. Using ed

January 2019

  1. Glass Panel Keyboards
  2. Howard Abrams’ GTD Workflow
  3. Zamansky 56: Dictionaries and Thesauri
  4. The Emacs C API
  5. Freeing Space on Your Mac Development Machine
  6. Having Org Notes Buffer Inherit Its Input Method
  7. Moving to Emacs
  8. Why You Should Buy Into Emacs
  9. Does Behavioral Advertising Even Work?
  10. Test Drive Programming Fonts
  11. Zamansky 55: Irony Completions
  12. Planning Your Life with Org Mode
  13. Parentheses, Elisp, and Other Things That Aren’t Going Away
  14. Multics Emacs
  15. The Loneliness of the Lisp Programmer
  16. Parsing Org Files
  17. Detangle
  18. Zamansky 54: Org Tables
  19. Inbox Zero, Inbox Infinity
  20. Bozhidar Batsov’s Year End Emacs Review
  21. Mobile Carriers and Your Location Information
  22. Moving from C++ to C
  23. Anaconda and Emacs
  24. Second Pretest for Emacs 26.2
  25. Making Poet
  26. Our Government in Action
  27. Generating RSS with Org-mode
  28. Multiline Fontification
  29. John Weigley on Magit
  30. Blogging with Emacs Only
  31. Diego Vicente’s 2018 Wrapup

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