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Mon 02 January 2023

My Exocortex

I’ll guide you through my current personal knowledge system, called my Exocortex. It uses org-roam in Emacs.

Thu 10 September 2015

Why put your .emacs in org-mode?

Once I learned that you could write your .emacs file in org-mode, I never looked back! Here’s a demo on how to do it.

Fri 13 December 2013

Widescreen coding in Emacs

When coding sometimes you need a reference file open alongside your code. I wrote a nice little helper function that puts Emacs into “widescreen mode” to help with this.

Specifically it doubles the width of the frame and splits it in two. You can then switch between them (C-x o …