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We recently bought an old kitchen cabinet that has a fly screen on one of the doors. I have found that it lets dust in over time, and when I go to use the glasses, they often have to be…
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Vladimir Lasky’s Essential WordPress Plugins for Security
Vladimir Lasky gave a very interesting talk about wordpress security at WordCamp Sydney 2012. In it he listed his essential plugins for a secure wordpress site. The plugins are: Login Security Solution Semisecure Login Reimagined WordPress File Monitor Plus WordPress…
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removing historical buffer names from the ido buffer list
ido-mode in emacs has this great feature where it remembers old buffers you have had open in the past and offers then as choices when switching buffer using C-x b. The problem is that sometimes it will have names in…
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gnus, imap and gnutls in win32
I’ve been trying to get gnus working in emacs in win32 for the past few days. There were a number of obstacles to overcome: Install gnutls The gnus README.w32 says gnutls should be installed and in the path. I found…
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Clickable links in OSX Terminal
For some reason I never thought to search for this before. It turns out, if you CMD+double click on a web link in Terminal.app it opens the link in your browser. Very handy. CMD+Shift+double click for OSs older than Lion.
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Converting lines of text into a numbered list in org-mode
Recently I had a list of things in a org buffer that I wanted to turn into a numbered list but couldn’t find an elegant way to do it. The solution I came up with was to use a regex-replace…
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Delete white space around insertion point in emacs
A while ago I discovered M-\ deletes white space between point and text. Now I just discovered M-spc replaces tabs and spaces around point with just 1 space. M-SPC runs the command just-one-space, which is an interactive compiled Lisp function…
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openscad is cool
UPDATE: You might also be interested in my list of programmatic CAD tools. Brendan introduced me to openscad while we were at the hacker space last night. I really like it and I can’t believe I didn’t try this tool…
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WordCamp Sydney 2012
Maissa and I bought our tickets for WordCamp Sydney. Hope to see you there!
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Sacha Chua interviews John Wiegley
Sacha Chua has come up with a great idea of interviewing some of the big names in emacs. Check out her first video where she interviews John Wiegley. They cover some interesting ground. It makes me realise what an emacs…
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