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How to incorporate handwritten notes into Emacs Orgmode

This is the video I made for the Emacs conference 2022 on my own experiences with trying to include handwritten notes in to my workflow. Special thanks to the organizers of the Emacs conference for giving me the opportunity to present my experiences with a really old, but rock solid and awesome software. As they say, I wish Emacs had a text editor too! Abstract of my talk: Research suggests that note taking is most effective when done by hand.

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How I Re-setup My Blog and Website using Hugo, Github and a Green Screen

My Website and Blog Wordpress.com and self-hosted wordpress.org are very nice and easy to setup. I helped my wife aladybird setup her travelog website - funderfulworld.com on a self-hosted wordpress.org installation. However, there is a big problem that I faced when it came to Wordpress installations. They are CPU hungry. If you are paying for the hosting then there sure is no problem, since you get unlimited CPU time. However, if you are a cheapy like me, then the free hosting sites scowl at you thrice and throw you out like an uninvited guest.

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