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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Short History of Typesetting
If you enjoyed yesterday’s story about the vacation memo, you may also like another video by Professor Brailsford on a short history of typesetting. The Mergenthaler Linotron 202 that was the subject of my last post could be said to … Continue reading
The Vacation Memo
In the summer of 1979, Bell Labs purchased a Mergenthaler Linotron 202 typesetter so they could typeset their own documents. The Mergenthaler was an example of the generation of typesetters just previous to laser printers. They were hideously complex and … Continue reading
LPR Cameras Exposed Online
The government that claims it can safely manage backdoor keys to our communications has once again demonstrated its fecklessness at securing sensitive data. Sans Newsbites is reporting that several license plate reader cameras were exposed online. In some cases, the … Continue reading
What Metadata Really Is
Edward Snowden cuts through the baloney and reminds us of the real meaning of Metadata. "Metadata" means records about your private activities and associations. It's an activity dossier. The novelty is in the lack of warrants. — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) … Continue reading
Textified Web Pages in Emacs
If you have lynx installed, here’s a handy tip from Mike Sample: #Emacs #Orgmode is awesome for research notes. Pull text-ified webpages into the buffer with #nomouse C-u M-! lynx –dump <URL-to-good-page> — Mike Sample (@mikesample) September 28, 2015
New Maintainer
Emacs has a new maintainer. Thanks to John Wiegley for taking on a hard, and often thankless, job. Wiegley has been very active in Emacs development—including authoring the wonderful use-package and eshell packages—and has lots of good ideas. If you’re … Continue reading
Note Taking While Learning a Language
Nickolas Lanasa has a tip that should be obvious but may not be: Org-mode Inline code snippets that you can evaluate in #emacs are so helpful when learning a new programming language. #notetaking — Nickolas Lanasa (@nicklanasa) October 21, 2015 … Continue reading
Text Editors Are Like Wine
The other day I came across an old post by Vivek Haldar on what we want in an editor. I may have written about it before but it’s worth revisiting. He notes that for many people what they want includes … Continue reading
Advanced Magit Video
Howard Abrams has been releasing a lot of really great videos lately. His latest is a remake of a talk he gave to the Portland Emacs Hackers Group on Magit Introduction and Demonstration. Although he spends a little bit of … Continue reading
SBCL 1.3.0
The latest version of Steel Bank Common Lisp (version 1.3.0) is out. This version fixes a few bugs, includes a port to Linux on ARM64, and includes a new, optional interpreter. See the NEWS page for details. I compiled the … Continue reading