Managing Your Life With Org-Mode

Today was EmacsConf 2019. There were a lot of very interesting and mind-expanding talks about cool stuff and the latest developments in Emacs. The sense of community was brilliant and I had a great time, despite the technical problems. Of course, I was one of the speakers. [ Read more ]

Getting The Most Out Of Anki

Anki is the most popular spaced repetition software (or SRS). At its heart, Anki is just a program for making and displaying flashcards, but the flashcards are shown to you on a schedule -- ideally, close to the same day as you would have forgotten the card, and no sooner. This means you can remember more information in less time than with traditional study methods. [ Read more ]

Ending Internet Addiction: A Review Of Cold Turkey

I want to talk about a change that I recently made in my computing environment which has significantly improved my productivity and happiness. It's a little program called Cold Turkey and it's reined in my Internet addiction. [ Read more ]

Memory Management In Unsafe Rust

This is a presentation I gave to my coworkers at MaidSafe. It was meant to be a broad overview of Rust unsafe code and FFI design, and includes the motivations as well as the background concepts necessary to understand the design of the FFI API I implemented for PARSEC. I wanted it to be understandable to beginners but still useful to experts -- I hope I succeeded in that rather lofty goal. [ Read more ]

Useful Emacs Keybindings

I don't mean to brag, but I'm one of the best Emacs users on the planet. What's my secret? Well, apart from having a genius-level IQ, there is no secret, really. However, it helps that I customized Emacs to make me as productive as possible, and part of doing that has been setting up custom keybindings. In fact, many of my keybindings are so brilliant that you may at first sight not understand them. I do implore you to persevere. This article may just change your life. At the least, you'll have a few more keybindings in your arsenal. [ Read more ]

Jekyll: Syntax Highlighting And Line Numbers

Welcome back to my series of articles about Jekyll. Today's post is for all the programmers out there who want to include source code on their blogs. The topic? Syntax highlighting that looks nice. [ Read more ]

Jekyll: Previous And Next Posts

This post is about the very first thing I implemented for this blog: links to the previous and next posts. I had initially used David Elbe's method, which for some people might be *good enough*, but has some glaring problems, and I wasn't satisfied with it. Since this and other solutions I found on Google were suboptimal, I came up with my own method and I wanted to share it. [ Read more ]

Advantages Of Vim Over Emacs

In this post I enumerate an exhaustive list of advantages that the venerable Vim carries over the embattled Emacs. [ Read more ]