Tuesday25: Keeping an automation notebook
In today’s pomodoro, I step through a series of actions I want to automate. In the process, I write a live, executable notebook of shell commands using Emacs Org-Mode.
Tuesday25: Mostly just yelling at the computer
Very little worked right in this pomodoro. I investigated the emacs command-line arguments for exporting org-mode files to Github-Flavored Markdown, and some other stuff. [boilerplate bypath=”tuesday25″]
Tuesday 25: Writing a RubyTapas episode (with voice dictation)
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Matching hostnames with pcase in Elisp
I am not what you might call a “competent” Emacs Lisp programmer. More of a cargo-culter, really. But I’m trying to get better. I create RubyTapas episodes across two different…
Mickey Peterson on What is new in Magit 2.x
Magit’s always had a neat cherry picking functionality, letting you cherry pick arbitrary commits from the commit log. I use it frequently by combining it with range logs to look…
Kata and Analysis by Jim Weirich
Towards the end of this video there’s a terrific discussion of the point at which DRYing out the code any further would just make it harder to understand. I was…
Calc-mode for calculating seconds
Yesterday I had a tiny epiphany about when Emacs calc-mode can be really useful. Here’s a tiny screencast about it.
RubyTapas freebie: xmpfilter
Today’s freebie answers the #1 most common question I get about RubyTapas! [boilerplate bypath=”rubytapas-sample”]
My Screencasting Process
A bunch of people have asked about my screencasting process for RubyTapas. My process is a work in progress that I frequently iterate on, so this is really just a…