Erik L. Arneson
Freelancing for small businesses and organizations leads to a position where you are juggling a number of projects for multiple clients. You need to keep track of a number of tasks ranging from software development to sending emails to project management. This is a lot easier when you have a...
Erik L. Arneson
I run the Regolith Desktop Environment on my laptop, which I love because it provides a convenient GNOME wrapper and interface for the i3 tiling window manager. Regolith relies on a program called ilia for application launching, and sometimes ilia gets caught in some kind of CPU-churning state...
Erik L. Arneson
Well-known Emacs package creator Protesilaos Stavrou interviewed me for his video podcast series, “Prot Asks.” We talked about a wide variety of topics, from Emacs to podcasting to Portland to public transit. I thought it was a great time, and perhaps you will like it, too! You can read and...
Erik L. Arneson
This is my contribution to month two of Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival. The topic this month is “Writing Experience,” which is perfect, since I write in Emacs all the time. In fact, I am writing this blog post in Emacs right now! Emacs Writing History I do not know how long I have been writing in...
Erik L. Arneson
I use Orgzly Revived on my phone to capture to-do items, tasks, writing ideas, and projects. Its files are then synced with an ownCloud server. Those same files are also constantly open in Emacs on my computer, which means there can be some gnarly issues with things getting out of sync. It took me...
David Vázquez
I have realized ERC supports control characters to emphasize text as bold, underline… However, I prefer *foo*, /bar/ and _foobar_ syntax, just like org-mode and Gnus. So I have added the following code to my .emacs to do the job: (defun erc-emphasize () (when (eq erc-interpret-controls-p t)...