Posts tagged "Tech":
Resources
Below are a list of links which I recommend checking out (mostly videos). If you're wondering why none of the links go to YouTube, I have a page explaining why.
...An introduction to free software
The first thing to note is that when people talk about free software they mean free as in freedom, not neccessarily free as in price or noncommercial. More specifically, most agree that to be truly free software, it must allow the following 4 freedoms:
...Free software alternatives
I am a passionate supporter of free software, and I believe that whenever someone needs to do something on a computer, they should try and use free software to do it. Today, quality free versions of most software exist, but in most cases people aren't aware of them, or assume they must be untrustworhy or poor quality. Because of this, I've put together a list of free software alternatives to programs, and I'll put a mark by the ones I personally use too for those curious.
...My Emacs config
For the uninitiated, Emacs is thought of as a text editor (usually compared against vi/vim as part of the great editor war) but it's actually a lisp interpreter, and text editing is just one of its capabilities. It's capable of countless different things, and the Emacs community is always adding new capabilities.
...My Emacs config
For the uninitiated, Emacs is thought of as a text editor (usually compared against vi/vim as part of the great editor war) but it's actually a lisp interpreter, and text editing is just one of its capabilities. It's capable of countless different things, and the Emacs community is always adding new capabilities.
...Technology
At some point I intend to have a long list of blog posts on technology, but for now I just have:
...My RSS feed (for Elfeed)
Below is a list of RSS feeds I'm currently following. I use the Elfeed reader for Emacs, with the Elfeed-org extension to enable it to read RSS feeds from this orgmode file.
...Why none of my video links go to YouTube
You might have noticed that none of the video links on this website go to YouTube, and are wondering why this is.
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