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How my CV pipeline escaped my own resume repo and became a reusable tool, plus the evolution of the HTML theme into its own fork.

How I moved my CV source of truth from Org mode + LaTeX to JSON Resume, and built a pipeline that exports both my CV and publications to HTML and PDF.

Eight years ago I announced The Big Website Reboot, when I switched my website to Hugo.

I no longer use Twitter, I keep now a local archive of my tweets.

Some Macs running Linux hang when waking up from sleep if the Ethernet port was connected.

Improve your Mac/Linux dual boot setup with pretty boot screens!

I recently learned how to extend the life of an old Mac by installing Linux on it.

I am happy to finally reveal a project I’ve been working on for some time: my new online course “CISSP Training”, now available on Leanpub.

My blogging has seen multiple iterations over the years, and with it, the tools I use have changed.

Automate the process of generating and inserting links to headlines in the current Org document using human-readable IDs instead of the default UUID-based IDs generated by Org mode.

A new release of my book “Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub” is out!

I switched from my hand-crafted Emacs config to Doom Emacs some time ago, and I am very happy with it.

I am happy to announce a new release of my new book “Learning Hammerspoon”, including a brand new chapter Hammerspoon Cookbook, Tips and Tricks and many other improvements.

As I’m taking notes or writing in Org-mode, I often want to insert screenshots inline with the text.

I am happy to announce the new release of my new book “Publishing with Emacs, Org-mode and Leanpub”, which talks about powerful tools and workflows you can use to easily publish your words.

I am happy to announce the new release of my new book “Literate Config”, devoted to the use of Literate Programming for writing and documenting configuration files.

Me complace anunciar la primera edición de mi nuevo libro, y mi primer libro en Español, “Utilerías de Unix”.

I am the author of two books: Learning CFEngine and Learning Hammerspoon, both self-published using Leanpub.

I am happy to announce a new release of my new book “Learning Hammerspoon”, including a brand new chapter and many other improvements.

I am happy to announce the first release of my new book “Learning Hammerspoon”, a book devoted to using Hammerspoon to make using your Mac easier, faster and more fun.

Like other Unix shells, Elvish has advanced command-argument completion capabilities.

Configuring Org Mode in Emacs for beautiful typography for both text and code editing.

In my ongoing series of literate config files, I present to you my Hammerspoon configuration file.

I have enjoyed slowly converting my configuration files to literate programming style using org-mode in Emacs.

How to set up the bash !!

In this blog post I will walk you through my current Elvish configuration file, with running commentary about the different sections.

In this second article of the “Just Enough Lua” series, we dive into Lua’s types and data structures.

Hammerspoon’s configuration files are written in Lua, so a basic knowledge of the language is very useful to be an effective user of Hammerspoon.

Here is how to set up Nix in single-user mode on macOS.

I’m always on the lookout for new toys, particularly if they make my work more productive or enjoyable.

For one week only, until September 20th, 2017, you can buy the new ebook release of “Learning CFEngine 3” on Amazon at 50% off its list price, US$4.98 instead of the regular US$9.99.

Here’s how to fix the breakage caused by one of the recent updates to Microsoft Outlook in the Outlook-to-OmniFocus AppleScript included with my SendToOmniFocus spoon.

In this second article about Hammerspoon, we look into Spoons, modules written in Lua which can be easily installed and loaded into Hammerspoon to provide ready-to-use functionality.

A new release of my book “Learning CFEngine 3” is now available!

When I was planning the reboot of my website, I seriously considered using Ghost.

This is the first installment of a series of posts about Hammerspoon, a staggeringly powerful automation utility which gives you an amazing degree of control over your Mac, allowing you to automate and control almost anything.

Welcome to the new zzamboni.org.

via https://medium.com/@mrdoro/fast-translation-with-google-translator-and-mac-osx-817e32233b7a https://medium.com/@mrdoro/fast-translation-with-google-translator-and-mac-osx-817e32233b7a Nice article about how to create a service to automatically transla…

via http://onethingwell.org/post/140035085825/enwrite I’m so proud (and of course posting this from Evernote using the web clipper) 😃 Enwrite ⇒ Evernote-powered statically-generated blogs and websites.

via https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/spotlight-use-package-a-declarative-configuration-tool Have you ever heard of use-package?

via http://sixcolors.com/post/2015/10/apple-magic-trackpad-2-review/ This is probably old news for most, but it still blew my mind: only now I realized that the clicking feeling and sound on my MacBook Pro’s trackpad is artificially generated.

via http://kottke.org/15/06/airplane-aerobatics-are-hilarious What a fun video.

via http://www.freshblurbs.com/blog/2013/06/22/github-multiple-ssh-keys.html#tldr Since Github doesn't allow us to reuse an SSH Key, the only sane solution is to jump through some hoops and generate + use multiple keys on the server itself.

I started getting errors from the TRAMP Emacs package because I was using fish as my default shell, and it does not recognize certain standard syntax elements (such as && to separate commands), and Emacs runs subcommands under the default shell.

via http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/the-log-the-lifeblood-of-your-data-pipeline.html Interesting article.

via http://mattgemmell.com/whisky/ Nice essay.

via http://www.codinginahurry.com/2011/02/05/three-levels-of-git-config/ Very nice explanation, via coding in a hurry There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system. project: Project configs are only available for the current project and sto…

via http://kfury.com/the-first-apple-homepage Looks positively old-fashioned now, but the memories!

I needed to copy a directory between two git repositories while preserving its history.

via https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/polling_notification.php Useful note about how to poll an Evernote account for new content.