Custom sorting of mu4e headers
I love mu4e for dealing with email under Emacs. It’s a great package itself, but of course the killer feature is that it’s Emacs, and with a little Emacs Lisp you can make it do email how you want to do email. I mean I know you don’t want to do email, but still.
The cowardice of the powerful: educational leadership in DEI
Every year my institution measures faculty productivity by requiring us to submit a report of our annual activities. This year I noticed that two sections had silently disappeared.
read the rest →Org mode, LaTeX, and tagged PDFs: producing accessible documents
Many of us in higher education use Emacs to produce course materials, and these must conform to the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We often export Org mode documents to LaTeX to produce very nice PDF output. But until very recently, LaTeX could not produce tagged PDFs that conform to the PDF/UA accessibility standard. Until how recently? Only starting with TeX Live 2025.
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I never write poetry. But this one just spilled out.
The right to privacy: embodied in each of us
On Mastodon, someone in my timeline [update 2025: on an instance that is now gone, alas] asked how to debunk the anti-privacy argument that goes “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
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