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This is my contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-07: Writing Experience.

This is a test.

Org-mode is my exocortex, second brain, second mind, mind palace, pensive, personal knowledge management system, and apocrypha.

I’ve been pretty much living in org-mode for 6 or 7 years now1.

I think I started getting interested in org-mode in 20071.

Do you have any tips on reversing a json dictionary?

How can I use or with a classes type promise where an element is negated with not().

CFEngine provides the services promise type to manage the state of a given service.

Can I access the current KEY when iterating in Mustache?

From #cfengine on irc.freenode.net: How can I clear the POSIX ACLs from a file?

How can I execute a command that uses command substitution in CFEngine?

What is the -top- extension, and how do I use it in CFEngines Mustache templating method?

CFEngine 3.12.0 introduced the augments key to the Augments file format.

How do you deal with config files that need different settings based on various services that are running on a host and cooperate with other teams?

In CFEngine classes are used for decision making.

This was asked on the CFEngine Help Mailing list on October 1st 2018.

How do I set the timeout with url_get()?

Recently I noticed that my CPU was pretty busy with the desktop search indexing, it brought me to the question: How can I disable the desktop search service trackerd?

How can I define custom access promises for cf-serverd without modifying vendored policy?

> How can I automatically remediate the issue where corruption in LMDB causes the agent to crash?

> How do I know if vars or classes come first during cfengine evaluation?

> How can I ensure that a notice containing legal text is presented to windows users during login?

This policy ensures that memory_limit in php.ini is configured properly but the pattern is generically useful for any INI style config. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 bundle agent php_customiztions { meta: (policy_server|am_policy_hub)…

This tip comes from my good friend Aleksey Tsalolikin. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 bundle agent main { vars: # Creae a map of interface to MAC # Generate a classic array # Iterate over known interfaces, define interface as key and MAC as val…

It looks like ifvarclass is one of few places in CFEngine that does not automatically canonify: Is there a reason why ifvarclass – which takes a variable by design – does not automatically canonify that variable before checking if there’s a matching class?

How can I purge a package using the apt_get package_module?

How can I make cfengine do things during a specific time window?

How do I format and convert time strings?

> Can we use uid/gid to set permissions instead of username and groupname?

> Does CFEngine provide tool to render a mustache template?

Anyone interested in organizing Kansas Linux Fest in 2018?

Why doesn't body action if_elapsed work with vars type promises?

Is there any way to do a multiline regex check for a file in CFEngine?

If I have a promise with a copy_from promise where the body specifies that permissions should be preserved and I also have a perms body on the same promise what is expected to happen?

> How can my hosts self organize into different groups?

It's easy to export an org document to html and get a table of contents, but sometimes it's nice to have a table of contents inside of an org-mode file.

What's the simplest, easiest, no-fuss way to wrap up standalone example?

How can I use set_line_based to manage a space separated file like /etc/services but include more than one space to make the config a bit easier to read. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 bundle agent main { vars: "map[hpss_d_mvr…

When I first tried using Emacs it was to play with Orgmode.

> How can I make sure a package is always up to date?

cf-agent -Kf .

When using the acl_method overwrite you must supply user, group, all ( aka other ), and mask for a complete ACL specification. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 bundle agent main { vars: "acl" slist => { "user:*:rwx", # System…

This controls if and how files are backed up by cf-agent during file editing operations.

Is there implicit "canonify"-cation happening in in "classes:" promise type?

1 echo hello world 1 2 3 4 5 bundle agent main { reports: "Hello World"; } R: Hello World

Well, I no longer work at CFEngine Inc.

Finally leaving behind the bloated wordpress in favor of hugo which can use org source files!

This weekend Neil Watson asked if I could share how I use org-mode with Spacemacs.

I recently built a new file server and I based it on the well renowned FreeNAS by iXsystems.

You never know when the Zombie or Cloud Apocalypse is coming.