Moving to Wordpress

Tue 26 January 2016 by yaniv

That was quick.

Couple of weeks ago I wrote about thinking to move my blog to Wordpress. Since then, I've used Wordpress¹ in conjunction with my static blog, and published posts to both sites. This experiment helped me to reaffirm the pros and cons of using Wordpress, especially the …

Uploading Images To Amazon S3

Tue 19 January 2016 by yaniv

Here's a cool little workflow that I use to automate the usage of images in my posts¹

The flow

Move the image I would like to use to my black-hole folder
When a new file is added to the folder, or existing file is modified, a Hazel is triggered …

Should I Keep Using Pelican Or Move To Wordpress

Mon 18 January 2016 by yaniv

I'm currently using Pelican to power this site. Pelican is a static site generator (SSG) that takes markdown files as an input and generate html pages as an output; no database, no server-side logic; just simple, static HTML.

When I created this blog, using Wordpress or Tumblr wasn't an option …

Fixing My Apple Extended Keyboard II

Fri 15 January 2016 by yaniv

Couple of months ago I bought the Apple Extended Keyboard from EBay. I fell in-love with it immediately, and enjoyed typing in it more than I do with my WASD Code¹.

To my disappointment, though, few days after I got it, several keys started to show signs of weakness …

Blog Writing - Our First Meeting

Sun 10 January 2016 by yaniv

Our Blog Writing meetup has taken off to a great start! Last Wednesday 18 of us met for the first time to discuss the vision of our group, share personal goals and talk about writing and blogging.

In case you've missed it, want to learn about our group, or just …

Should I Move My Blog Here?

Fri 08 January 2016 by yaniv

I'm currently blogging using Pelican as my static site generator (here's a link). I started with that because it seemed like the cool thing to do - write your own blog, control everything, and write posts in plain text, or markdown.

But as time went by, and I wrote more and …

Get The Current File's Path in Emacs

Mon 04 January 2016 by yaniv

Here's a small function I borrowed from this question on stack-overflow. It returns the full path of the file I currently edit in the buffer:

(defun show-file-name ()
  "Show the full path file name in the minibuffer."
  (interactive)
  (message (buffer-file-name))
  (kill-new (file-truename buffer-file-name))
)
(global-set-key "\C-cz" 'show-file-name)

You'll note that this function …

My Post-Evernote Life

Few months ago I wrote about my decision to move away from Evernote. Recently, few readers^1^ emailed me to ask whether I actually stooped using Evernote, and if …

Quotes: Little Gidding

Mon 28 December 2015 by yaniv

Couple of weeks ago I was vacationing with my family at the Dominican Republic. One night, at about midnight, while I was lying half asleep in-front of the TV, watching a show about Vietnam on the Discovery Channel (the only English channel), I caught this quote: