Definitely a madman with a box
I love having logs for things that can be checked later on if need be, and so I enabled logging state changes and rescheduling into the LOGBOOK drawer way back in Scheduling and Deadlines . But since I have this nifty logbook, why not use it to capture yet more information? I wanted to be able to add my own custom timestamped notes. Fortunately, Org mode makes this easy. My first known uses of…
As I came to track more and more items using Org mode, I realized that I needed to have a way of raising up items or filtering down to the things I should be concentrating on. I needed prioritization . My first known use of this feature dates to 4 Jan 2023. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage Priority cookies are just a bit of extra text that goes between the TODO or other tag at…
Not long after my last Org-mode post , we started planning for a new release cycle at work. Previously, I was tracking individual issues or small features as level-1 headlines with action items immediately underneath as level-2 headlines with the TODO keyword. Now though, I was going to need to keep track of an entire collection of interrelated features (an 'epic' in the Agile terminology), not…
I've reached a point where I need to organize things at a level lower than individual tasks. So for that, I've started making use of the lists and checklists features of Org mode. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage As mentioned in the part about notes in Part 1 , I've been using unordered lists from the beginning. There are other options for bullets to use with these, but so far…
As I mentioned at the end of part 2, I want to schedule things I need to do on the calendar. So, this week I explored the deadlines and scheduling features. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage There are two types of these timestamps that you can give to your agenda items — schedules and deadlines. Schedules are for events that happen at a particular time, or for when you want to…
As I mentioned at the end of part 1, I quickly began to feel the need to break things up into multiple files to make things more manageable. So, this week I explored the refile and archiving features. Usage Settings Key Bindings Learned Next Steps Usage To begin with I wanted to break up my items into categories, one category per file. After some waffling, the categories I settled upon for work…
I've been thinking recently that I need to adopt a task management system. As a long-time Emacs user, it should be natural for me to also be a user of Org-mode , an Emacs mode for outlining, note-taking, task management, and more . Building a system around an add-on of a program I already have open every day is a major plus and ought to encourage me to keep up with it. It will also be not too far…
Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority, run in a cooperative effort with the goal of making it easy for everyone to obtain and renew the certificates needed to enable secure encrypted connections for their domain. It's free to use, uses open standards and open source software, and provides certificates via a fully automated process. Major sponsors of Let's Encrypt include the Mozilla…
There's a great little demo up on css-tricks.com , demonstrating a technique that uses CSS pseudo-elements to prevent paragraphs from becoming too squeezed when flowing around floated images. The thing is, it didn't work when I tried to do it myself. At least, not in my preferred browser, Firefox . And what was really puzzling was that the demo did work in the exact same browser. Then I found…
The subject of game AI generally begins with so-called perfect information games. These are turn-based games where the players have no information hidden from each other and there is no element of chance in the game mechanics (such as by rolling dice or drawing cards from a shuffled deck). Tic Tac Toe, Connect 4, Checkers, Reversi, Chess, and Go are all games of this type. Because everything in…