Words, code, and information security in Portland, Oregon
This is the website of Erik L. Arneson. I am a freelance writer and software developer in Portland, Oregon.
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Blog Posts
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Interviewed on "Prot Speaks"
Well-known Emacs package creator Protesilaos Stavrou interviewed me for his video podcast series, “Prot Asks.” We talked about a wide variety of topics, from Emacs to podcasting to Portland to public transit. I thought it was a great time, and perhaps you will like it, too!
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Writing Experience (Emacs Carnival)
This is my contribution to month two of Greg Newman’s Emacs Carnival. The topic this month is “Writing Experience,” which is perfect, since I write in Emacs all the time. In fact, I am writing this blog post in Emacs right now!
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maybe: A command-line tool that succeeds sometimes
I just released version 1.0.0 of
maybe, a command-line utility that succeeds some of the time. It is written in Go and is not very many lines of code, but I do hope that it can be useful for people. -
Configuring Orgzly Interaction with Directory Local Variables
I use Orgzly Revived on my phone to capture to-do items, tasks, writing ideas, and projects. Its files are then synced with an ownCloud server. Those same files are also constantly open in Emacs on my computer, which means there can be some gnarly issues with things getting out of sync. It took me a while to figure out a good way to manage this, and in this brief blog post, I would like to share my solution.
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Using WireGuard over xfinitywifi
If you are a Comcast Xfinity customer, you hopefully know that you can log into WiFi hotspots wherever other Xfinity customers have them enabled, all using the SSID
xfinitywifi. You may have also figured out by now that WireGuard doesn’t seem to work over this WiFi service without additional tweaking.Well, I have tweaked a WireGuard configuration until it seems to work.
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Examining To-Do Lists in Org-mode
When you are self-employed, you need to be very well organized. There is never anybody looking over your shoulder, reminding you of everything on your to-do list. You don’t have a project manager reminding you of every step in your big projects. I use Org-mode in Emacs to manage all of my tasks, to-do lists, and projects.
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Many Posts of Interest for January 2024
Once again, I have collected far too many links over far too long a period of time. Anyhow, here is a collection of blog posts and links from around the web that I found to be good reading over the past couple of months. Is it too late in January to say Happy New Year?
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EmacsConf 2023 Retrospective
This past weekend was EmacsConf 2023. It was held entirely online, which was great because I could attend in my pyjamas! Since it happened on Eastern Standard Time and I live on the Pacific coast, I found the pyjama-enablement to be quite conducive to an excellent conference experience. Here are some things I learned by waking up at 5:30 in the morning this weekend!
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Posts of Interest for November 2023
I was planning to make posts like this more regularly, but I entered into a period where I was thinking, huh, I am not collecting very many links. But I was wrong, I was collecting links. I collected too many. And now look at everything you have to read! I am sure these links will keep you occupied for a while.
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Posts of Interest for 13 October 2023
This is the second of my “posts of interest” posts. This week, I have also included some interesting Mastodon posts, because the Emacs community on Mastodon is thriving like crazy. It is really a blast to see so much interest in Emacs and so much activity.
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