I was reading this piece, The Beginners Guide to Emacs, which suggested making the Caps Lock Key into CTRL. I've been using emacs for years, and it never occurred to me to make this change. Lovely! Since it isn't in the instructions, I'd thought I'd make a note here in case it comes up in … Continue reading Emacs: Rebinding Caps Lock to Ctrl
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A Quick Introduction to StumpWM on Linux
"StumpWM is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 Window Manager written entirely in Common Lisp." Why Use It StumpWM will likely cut down a lot of your use of a mouse. There's many reasons to use the mouse less, such as speed (entering in a key combination is faster than using a mouse), carpal tunnel syndrome, … Continue reading A Quick Introduction to StumpWM on Linux
Fixing a Broken org2blog Configuration
I used to have a working set-up of org2blog. Somewhere along the way, it got borked. I couldn't login. I tried fixing it a few times, but I couldn't get the problem resolved. Today, I finally got org2blog working. Key piece is setting the gnutls-algorithm-priority. Use the instructions at the org2blog site: https://github.com/org2blog/org2blog/wiki/Usage Do everything … Continue reading Fixing a Broken org2blog Configuration
Learn to Program With Common Lisp
Tim Ferriss has a currently popular blog post, "Ten Lessons I Learned While Teaching Myself to Code," that I've seen mentioned in a few places. While it is largely good advice, there is one point that is wrong. It does matter what language you learn. Here's the ten lessons from his article: The online world … Continue reading Learn to Program With Common Lisp
The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
The Plain Person's Guide to Plain Text Social Science is written for graduate students in the social sciences, but useful for any writer. For people not doing sophisticated data analysis, the key suggestions are to use a text editor like Emacs for writing, Markdown for formatting, git—such as on GitLabs—for version control, and a translator … Continue reading The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
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