Month: May 2013

  • Programmatic CAD, OpenSCAD alternatives

    There are quite a few programatic CAD, OpenSCAD alternatives out there. I am collecting a list of them and providing links to them here. The requirements to be included in this list are: Free and libre. They are a programming language as opposed to a GUI. OpenSCAD: The most well known programmatic CAD program. Probably…

  • Emacs: yank a line multiple times from the kill ring

    Emacs: yank a line multiple times from the kill ring

    Today I needed to copy a line multiple times in emacs. I needed 8 copies, but how to do that in emacs short of pressing C-y to yank 8 times? My initial guess was to try C-u 8 C-y but that yanks the 8th item from the kill ring. Fuco on #emacs supplied the awesome…

  • Setting alternate hreflang in WordPress

    UPDATE 2013-05-03: After writing this I found out my approach was incorrect. I have since removed the code as it was not useful. Dan’s team was kind enough to point me to Virgin Australia‘s site. If you inspect the source and search for hreflang, you’ll see how it should be done. /UPDATE After seeing the…