Monthly Archives: May 2016

Org Capture Template for Code Snippets

Posted on 2016-05-11 by jcs

Munen Alain M. Lafon has a nice post on using an Org capture template to record a bit of source code. I like it because it’s completely self-contained. You just define the template and it works. The real value of … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 3 Comments

Chez Scheme Open Sourced

Posted on 2016-05-10 by jcs

Chez Scheme has always been an excellent Scheme implementation. It produces very fast object code and is a complete R6RS implementation with extensions. Chez Scheme was written by Kent Dybvig, who also wrote the excellent The SCHEME Programming Language (also … Continue reading →

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Multiple Dispatch in CLOS

Posted on 2016-05-09 by jcs

Eli Bendersky has an outstanding post on multiple dispatch in Common Lisp. It’s part of a series he’s doing on multiple dispatch in various languages. Lisp has always looked at OOP differently from most languages and Lispers consider CLOS a … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged Common-lisp, Lisp | 1 Comment

Learning Vim: Not That Hard

Posted on 2016-05-08 by jcs

As anyone who’s been around Irreal for awhile knows, I’m all in on Emacs. I find new uses for it and things I didn’t know it could do every day. Nonetheless, I was a Vim user for a long time … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Vim | 2 Comments

Password Cracking Times

Posted on 2016-05-07 by jcs

Over at Better Buys they have an interesting post on password cracking times. The post includes an interactive app that lets you estimate the cracking time for various passwords. They also include several examples that show how cracking time is … Continue reading →

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Summary of Search and Replace Commands

Posted on 2016-05-06 by jcs

Om Prakash Singh has a very nice post on the Emacs search and replace commands. We all know the commands for forward and reverse incremental search (【Ctrl+s】 and 【Ctrl+r】), query-replace (【Meta+%】), and query-replace-regexp (【Ctrl+Meta+%】) but each of these commands has … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.5

Posted on 2016-05-05 by jcs

The new version of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL 1.3.5) has been released. According to the NEWS file, this month’s release fixes 3 bugs and introduces 4 enhancements. As usual, it built and installed without any problems on my Mac. … Continue reading →

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Multiple Org Capture Inputs

Posted on 2016-05-04 by jcs

David Zuber over at Storax has a useful post on enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Emacs, Org-mode | 2 Comments

Harry Schwartz on Org Mode

Posted on 2016-05-03 by jcs

Harry Schwartz, who appears to have moved to Boston from New York, gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on Getting Started with Org-mode. It’s not really a tutorial but a demonstration of many of Org’s features and how … Continue reading →

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Building a Hugo Blog with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-05-02 by jcs

Chris Bonnell has a post up on how he blogs using Org and the Hugo engine. It’s another static page solution like the Jekyll and Nikola ones that I’ve written about before. This solution is a little trickier because Hugo … Continue reading →