This post is the result of a little hike along one of the Long Distance walks in the Netherlands: "LAW 05-2 (04) Katwijk aan Zee - de Zilk", part 4 of "Nederlands Kustpad" I recorded the hike with my Suunto Traverse watch and exported this as a GPX file. I used that gpx file as example data to create a little gpx …

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In Working with Jekyll and Org-Mode a simple solution was given to use org-mode format files as posts. That solution had quite a few limitations: the files still needed the '---' yaml header to be present on the first lines, making it invalid org-mode documents only posts were supported, not documents, collections and …

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Many people in the Emacs community use orgmode. Quite a few of them use the org-babel system to write and maintain their emacs configuration, and so am I. I find the biggest advantage to be able to document my thought process as well as the configuration details. Emacs configuration can get pretty big and maintaining …

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Most of my notetaking and task management is in org-mode so it makes sense to use that as the basic format of my postings too. This is usually done by publishing a project from org-mode into the location where jekyll keeps its files and let jekyll convert that into something publishable. I'm using a slightly different …

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Many people got attracted to bitcoin the last couple of months. This explosion of interest probably caused the monetary value of bitcoins to show the same shape as the google trend-line chart pictured below. In this article I will ignore the exponential increase in monetary value since its inception and focus on some …

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