Creating and Publishing Presentations with Org-reveal
For several years, I’ve been using Org-mode to compose slides for my lectures. This method is great, because I get to work in plain-text and focus on the content of my lectures rather than animations;...
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Exporting org-files to a temporary location
I have a private journal, which lives in an encrypted file in a Dropbox-backed-up directory. I use html export to examine the contents sometimes there are some big old tables that are hard to read in...
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Mailing subtrees with Attachments
This is pretty exciting; I’ve figured out how to quickly send org-mode subtrees as MIME-encoded emails. That means that, essentially, I can write in org, as plain text, and very quickly export to...
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Note Taking with PDF Tools
NOTE: This post has been modified as of 2015-11-22 Sun the new code is a little cleaner, and I think the discussion a little fuller. Almost all of my job-related reading is now done on a screen. There...
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Elfeed
I’ve become pretty addicted to the Elfeed RSS reader. However, I haven’t made much use of its tagging capabilities until recently. I noticed that, whenever I thought I might want to keep track of the...
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I’ve updated my older post on PDF Tools with slightly cleaner code, for anyone who’s using this method of extracting annotations!
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Table of Contents Offline Map Display Data Storage GPS Tracking Getting your data out REVISED For our trip to Sikkim, I would like students to have a way to map our progress on their phones so that it...
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Using the Sikkim Website to keep in touch
Table of Contents Getting Started Location Data Featured Image Showing a post on the “Our Journey” Page OK, we’re getting down to the wire. This post is for the Sikkim trip students. I know most of...
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It’s Time to Finally Take Encryption Seriously!
Table of Contents Encryption Review Messaging Email We have known for a long time that the American intelligence agencies don’t flinch at violating our privacy. Edward Snowden’s revelations have...
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Sending HTML Mail with mu4e
John Kitchin has a terrific post detailing some configuration/improvements to mu4e that make it easier to send html mail. This original post is really great, but I ran into quite a bit of trouble...
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I use org-mime in my grading system, to email my comments on student papers. One frustrating element has always been that messages sent by org-mime were never saved to my sent-mail folder. I realized...
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Org-Mode: Run Code Live in a Reveal slideshow with Klipse
Table of Contents The Basics: ox-reveal Running Code in Klipse Add Support for Third-Party Plugins Rewrite org-reveal-src-block Slide-based presentations are pretty useful and in any case de rigeur...
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Troubling News
I’ve just learned that the being I thought was a cute dancing penguin is in fact an evil alien creature bent on destruction and domination. This creature has invaded a number of projects that I’m a...
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Deploying Course Websites with git hooks.
Table of Contents Repository setup Workflow Now that I’ve moved my course websites to Hugo via ox-hugo, life is definitely easier than when I used WordPress, and my teaching is unquestionably crawling...
View ArticleYes, I know, It’s been a while
This is an ancient WordPress blog which I at one point hoped would be a more comprehensive representation of my activity online. I’m increasingly frustrated with WordPress, though, and while there are...
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