Literate Devops with Emacs

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pxc · 2023-08 · Strong recommendation

This is the blog of Howard Abrams, who also has a great YouTube channel full of Emacs demos and tutorials. His video on literate programming for DevOps via Emacs' Org-mode was very impressive and inspiring to me. It's my favorite. :) [VIDEO]

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kkfx · 2022-04 · Recommendation

Personally I've failed with Emacs years ago, just tried it and decide that's a heavy and horrid mess, I re-tried it few years ago when I see it in action and was at that point in time that I realize it's power. Emacs is one-tool one-job BUT the tool is just a function and functions can be combined like unix commands in pipes but in far more powerful manner and with far less overhead. Try seeing this: [LINK] or this [VIDEO] the real issue when starting without a friend of video-tutorials is that Emacs defaults are barebone and really old, the juicy things come only when you discover them. The power of Emacs is not much Emacs itself but the classic desktop paradigm: anything is integrated so anything can be combined. You type some math in a mail? Why not have it rendered by LaTeX, since your system do have LaTeX support installed and why not solve the ode you are typing since you have a CAS? Why being tied on GUIs to cut&paste as the sole IPC? That's is. Is extremely powerful but so different than actual environments that most users fail to comprehend without seeing it in action...

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elviejo · 2020-07 · Recommendation

Org-mode in Emacs. Because it enables to do literate programming. In this video [0] by Howard Abrahams you can see how to wave the instructions and the execution of them with Emacs. Another advantage is that you can mix your diagrams (in plantuml or ASCII art) with your code, in the same org-mode file. Gitub displays .org files the same way it does Markdown. [0] [VIDEO]

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