When I load an Excel file as text, dates are loaded as an integer (for example 42705). Converting them to R dates is easy, but I often forget the value I should use in the argument origin to actually make the conversion. This post is to keep the reminder at hand. ...
delete-indentation is one of those functions that I often forget. It鈥檚 used to do the opposite of fill-paragraph, usually bound to M-q. ...
This is a short post to leave here a piece of knowledge that often escapes me: flush-lines. ...
This is a very short article to share Swirly, a Command Line Interface-based tool to learn python (or any python package) interactively. ...
I have a template of a document written as an org file. I have to edit some fields in that file to be able to generate different versions of that document for different people. I export it as a text file to give the feel of a document written with an old-school software and printed with a dot matrix printer. Finally I convert the produced document to PDF. ...
I recently faced the following problem: I had a PDF document created by merging several other documents, many of them containing multiple pages. I needed to display the page numbers in the document. Latex and pdftk to the rescue! ...
In this blog post, I want to show how I configured mu4e to read my Gmail accounts in Emacs. ...
I work with many RMarkdown files structured within a hierarchy of directories. I needed to render these files to PDF and then use Ghostscript to merge them. This article explains the two small shell scripts I used for the task. ...
It was very easy to configure Elfeed in Emacs to have all the blogs and news from the sites I like, together in Emacs. In this short article, I share how I configured the Elfeed package with the RSS feeds of some of the blogs I enjoy reading. This is important for me because I often spend time filtering through a lot of content that I am not interested in on forums like lemmy.ml or reddit.com. Using this method is also a way to avoid ads and go directly to the content I want to see. ...
Merging tables is one of the most common tasks when analyzing data. And yet, I always seem to forget how joins (merges) are done in pandas 馃惣. So here鈥檚 a reminder for future me (and apparently for you, if you happened to land here 馃槈). ...