This post was originaly published on 2022-09-27. Updated 2022-09-28, to include the improved script. It’s been a year, since I figured out the hack that finally let me use my Compose key in Emacs.1 Without it, I am unable to type any kind of quotation marks or umlauts in emacs. A year in, and I’m tired of restarting the service everytime the machine comes on. The computer can do that for me....
Org mode is slowly spreading its tentacles increasingly becoming something, I cannot live without, to manage my day. And I’m getting pretty consistent with it too! Like you see above, I use dates as my headlines, below which I list the various tasks for the day.1 And that’s where I run into my current itch to scratch. I don’t want to keep typing out the date daily. The computer can do that for me....
This post was first sent to my newsletter on April 23rd, 2021. You really ought to subscribe :) Welcome to a tech edition of the letter. I’m trying something new with this now, since I am in that strange valley, where I don’t know enough about programming to write opinions of my own and yet I need to talk to my techie friends. So, taking a leaf out of Kushal’s newsletter, I will share stuff that I come across as I read....
This probably will be a few days of bike shedding. I finally came up with a problem, I want to solve for myself and then realised, I don’t know enough command line fu to integrate my stuff with my operating system, the way I like. So I am going to spend time, learning how to use the bash shell. Been searching, copying and modifying scripts for far too long now....