Notes from an atrocity
The human organism is an atrocity exhibition at which he is an unwilling spectator. The setup. The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard is not a […]
When tmux is your window manager
I recently wrote a post about writerdecks and minimalist “distraction-free” writing environments in general. I concluded that the most minimalist writing environment you could get […]
About writerdecks and distraction-free writing environments
I’ve been seeing a lot of videos and articles recently about writerdecks. That’s right. These are distraction-free writing environments for writers. Basically, specialty computer rigs […]
Basic Saxon vs Latinate Construction for Beginners and Obsessives
I’ve mentioned this a lot to my writers group over the years, so I thought I’d finally write it down. English carries two parallel vocabularies: […]
The Emacs Way: Deleting Files
I know it’s scary, but sometimes you have to delete files, and once they’re gone—they’re gone. I guess that was why GUI systems invented the […]
Let the commits tell the story
Pull up git log –oneline on a project—or open the Magit log with l l from the status buffer and you might see two slightly […]
OrgFolio | Turn your scattered interests into cultivated obsessions
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about “distributed notebooks” generated in Org Mode and published to bare bones Web 1.0 HTML pages. Now […]
Writing gloriously long sentences in Emacs with line highlighting
Everyone knows I love finding whatever Emacs tricks and dodges I can to help writers. I wrote an article a while back about the benefits […]
The Emacs Way: Create Directories
In the last article in the series, we talked about deleting files, which is scary and sad. In this article, I’m happy to change topics […]
The Emacs Way: Moving and Renaming Files
In the previous article in the Emacs ways series we did a little jive on copying files from one source location to a destination location. […]