.offlineimaprc- this file is used by Offlineimap to connect to my Gmail and sync my inbox with mu4e..authinfo- that file stores my Gmail credential, and used by Emacs to send emails.
Just A Couple Of Emacs Keybindings
Tue 23 February 2016 by
Every now and then I'll type something in Emacs with a certain goal, just to find that I get something completely different from what I've intended.
When in org file, I tried to convert a list item to a sub-header. The
keybinding to make this conversion is C-c *. But when …
NY Mechanical Keyboards Meetup
Mon 22 February 2016 by
I've just started a new meetup group in NYC. This groups is all about mechanical keyboards!
So if you're around (in the NYC area), if you have reminiscences to the tactile feel and click-clacky noise keyboards used to have when you were a kid, if you're already spellbound, spending hundreds …
read more ›Emacs GPG For Dummies
Tue 16 February 2016 by
I've set up mu4e, and have my Gmail credentials stored in two files:
Unfortunately, both of those files …
read more ›Adding mu4e Support To Emacs
Fri 12 February 2016 by
Couple of months ago1 I started to use Emacs as my secondary email client; the primary one remains Gmail's web interface. Bringing my Gmail account to Emacs wasn't as smooth sail as I hoped it to be, but I'm happy with the results so far.
Why use Emacs for …
read more ›My WordPress Development Workflow
Wed 10 February 2016 by
I currently use a child-theme for this site1, its parent being twentysixteen. I keep modifying this theme on my local machine and push updates to my live site. But in parallel, I want to start building a completely new theme, based on the starting _s theme. I'm uncomfortable developing …
read more ›No Exuses To Blogging
Thu 04 February 2016 by
Awhile back I wrote about my experience learning to touch type. While writing it, I found this related article by Sacha Chua, which helped me rationalize to myself why it is such an important skill to learn. I ended up spending almost an hour browsing Sacha's site. The amount of …
read more ›Back To Input
Tue 02 February 2016 by
Now that I moved to Wordpress, I can finally set Emacs' font to Input. Wait, what? what does an Emacs font has to do with WordPress?
Well, in a previous post, I documented how to modify fonts in Emacs. However, I had to rollback the new font, because it broke …
read more ›Apple Watch - 6 Months Later. Not That Great.
Fri 29 January 2016 by
When I shared my first impression on the Watch, it was all hail of fanfare. I had nothing bad to say about it, and even if I had, I ignored or minimized it.
Six months of daily use later, and I become annoyed with it. If it wasn't too big …
read more ›Two Out Of Three
Wed 27 January 2016 by
When I served in the air-force, we used to make fun of the meteorology unit, which was responsible to provide us with weather information before going on a mission. You see, know the weather conditions at the location of the target, at the time we suppose to attack it is …
read more ›On Starting A Blog
Wed 27 January 2016 by
My experience with starting a blog reminds me that of becoming a parent.
For years the idea of having a child was something my wife and I repressed. We knew we will eventually have one (or two), but never spoke about it. When time started to press, and we had …
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