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1. Custom UK holidays in the Emacs calendar

   I've always used org-mode for managing and displaying my calendar, but it's worth noting that Emacs comes with a built-in calendar that already offers a lot of functionalities and customizations. Its documentation sits within the Emacs manual (C-h i m Emacs RET g Calendar/Diary RET).

   Among other things, the …

2. Code reviews in academia

   Table of Contents

   • 1. Research software isn't reviewed
   • 2. Researchers are developers
   • 3. Code reviewing is not bug-hunting
   • 4. Distributing knowledge and experience

   1. Research software isn't reviewed

   Code reviewing is a standard practice among professional software developers. Generally, this means code is subject to human feedback, complementary to machine …

3. Keeping track of tasks and projects with GNU Emacs and Org Mode

   Org-mode is a set of functionalities inside GNU Emacs, geared towards note-taking, structuring text and managing tasks. These functionalities become available with activating Org-Mode (M-x org-mode) or simply by opening a file with the .org extension.

   Org is an incredibly broad mode. Just as Emacs itself goes beyond being a …