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Lock And Unlock Your Files From The Command Line Using Finder

If you want to lock and unlock your files from the command line using Finder instead of using chmod there here are two aliases to do it:

alias flock=’chflags -R uchg’
alias funlock=’chflags -R nouchg’

(Emacs+Org-Mode) Don't Dash Your Hopes Of Utilizing Dashes

You’ve got Unicode and Emacs so take advantage of the 3 kinds of dashes available to every writer. Here is how with a little detail you might find pretty useful totally unrelated to dashes!

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(Engineering) Watch A Flat Bottom Ditch Get Created

Never seen it before now watching a flat bottom ditch get created here.

It is so interesting to see even without knowing the terms and approach you can understand some of it by the context.

Definitely worth 14m of your time!

(UNIX) Your First UNIX Love Should Have Been PWB/UNIX

PWB/UNIX is the first UNIX with

The First Source code control ever
A really nice shell
make, find, and head

Bet it was a lot of fun.

(Emacs+Org-Mode) Migrate From Ido To Ivy In One Quick Step

After avoiding migrating from Ido to Ivy for years I put in the time today. Long story short it was simple, fast, and easy. Here is the micro version of what it took:

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(Emacs+Org-Mode) Three Different Ways To Export From Org To A Calendar

Never had the want to export to a calendar from Org but here are what looks like three pretty nice ways to do it.

Taming The BibTeX Beast!

BiTeX is something I’ve learned as little about as possible doing just enough to “make it work right”. Glad to know about this for when I don’t know how to do that.

How The Heck Are You Supposed To Choose Your BibTeX Keys?!

There are plenty of ways to do it and this article is one of the best.

It’s checklist is worth reviewing nearly every time you work directly with your BibTeX file.

Here is a copy of the checklist:

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(Happiness) One Out Of Many

Two cool ideas about connection and community: Unity in diversity and E pluribus unum.

bash: update_terminal_cwd: command not found resolution

When you run Bash under shell in Emacs on macOS then update_terminal_cwd is never defined and after every command you get the error message bash: update_terminal_cwd: command not found making the shell unusable.

The simplest solution is to define update_terminal_cwd when it isn’t defined.

Here is the code:

if [ -z “$(type -t update_terminal_cwd)” ] || [ “$(type -t update_terminal_cwd)” != “function” ]; then
update_terminal_cwd() {
true
}
fi