While GNU/Linux had been my operating system of choice for many years, these days I'm primarily on macOS. Lucky for me, I spend most of my time in Ema...

As I came to track more and more items using Org mode, I realized that I needed to have a way of raising up items or filtering down to the things I should be concentrating on. I needed prioritization. My first known use of this feature dates to 4 Jan 2023.…

I love having logs for things that can be checked later on if need be, and so I enabled logging state changes and rescheduling into the LOGBOOK drawer way back in Scheduling and Deadlines. But since I have this nifty logbook, why not use it to capture yet…

I had a couple of drinks last night and opened my laptop and accidentally launched Obsidian and thought, “Oh, I remember. This is pretty cool! I should use this for everything.” so this morning I’m staring at Obsidian wondering what now?
But why not just…

If you want to do statistical calculations with your computer, you probably want to use some sort of package to help you. When I was in school, we used Minitab (a "mini" version of OMNITAB— now there's a great name!), but I guess most statisticians used either…

My journey into using Hledger with Emacs to track my share investments continues. Last Time I looked at a way to track shares using a plain text file. Since then I have made some tweaks to my workflow as I gain more experience:
naming conventions that support…

Information about the latest version of my ‘spacious-padding’ package for GNU Emacs.

Journelly keeps getting updated with good features. One of …

Today, I was reading Why Use Structured Errors in Rust Applications? and one of the issues discussed is jumping away from the code you're working on to look at the definition of the error. On the one hand, rust-analyzer makes it really easy to jump to the…

I’ll be pretty brief today. keyboard-quit (C-g) is one of the most used commands, but unfortunately it’s not very smart. Most annoyingly, it doesn’t work as expected when the minibuffer is active. Fortunately, fixing such problems (and then some) is trivial…

Heredocs in Ruby are quite common, quite flexible, and… somewhat weird. Still, this doesn’t stop people from suggesting more features for them, like this (rejected) proposal for an anonymous heredocs syntax: # regular Ruby code Markdown.render <<~MARKDOWN…