Collection of odds and ends relating to e-readers including personal reminisces Background Reading has been a huge part of my life. The written word has had arguably more of an impact on my life than anything I have experienced in person. As a kid back in early 2000’s; this meant a lot of library trips and saving for paperbacks. I also caught the first wave of the e-ink revolution. Nothing beats a real book, in terms of textures and scents; but e-ink devices and the fantastic tools outlined...| rgoswami.me
Setting up unicode math and orgmode for painless Anki deck building Background A recent Hacker News post reminded me of Anki, and that brought back memories of my Anki orgmode setup. I thought I’d re-create and immortalize it. The standard way of working with Anki, is with a pretty awkward GUI. There are changes to be made here, which make life a little easier, including the setup of custom cards, but the inherent concerns of the WYSIWYG editor are basically insurmountable.| rgoswami.me
A short tutorial post on multiple screens for laptops with touch-support and ArchLinux. Also evolved into a long rant, with an Easter egg. Background Of late, I have been attempting to move away from paper, for environmental reasons1. Years of touch typing in Colemak (rationale, config changes) and a very customized Emacs setup (including mathematica, temporary latex templates, Nix, and org-roam annotations) have more or less kept me away from analog devices.| rgoswami.me
A post on working with transient TeX templates in orgmode without modifying global configurations. This will also serve as a rudimentary introduction to TeX in orgmode. Background The sad reality of working in a field dominated by institutional actors which do not care for recognizing software development as a skill is that there are often a lot of ugly LaTeX templates1. In particular, often Universities have arbitrary LaTeX templates from the the dark days of 2010 something, which include gr...| rgoswami.me
Background One of the best things about writing in orgmode is that we can embed and execute arbitrary code snippets. However, not all languages have an exporter, for obvious reasons. Somewhat surprisingly, there is no way to call pandoc on embedded snippets, which feels like a waste, especially when a whole bunch of documentation formats can be converted to orgmode with it. Consider the following beautifully highlighted snippet of an rst (ReStructured Text) list table.| rgoswami.me
Background I have been wanting to find a workflow which allows me to bypass writing a lot of TeX by hand for a while now. To that end I looked into using a computer algebra system (CAS). Naturally, my first choice was the FOSS Maxima (also because it uses Lisp under the hood). However, for all the reasons listed here, relating to its accuracy, which have not been fixed even though the post was over 5 years ago, I ended up having to go with the closed source Mathematica.| rgoswami.me