Monthly Archives: June 2017

Apple Does it Again

Posted on 2017-06-11 by jcs

In yet another privacy enhancing move, Apple announced that iOS 11 will no longer allow app developers to force always-on location services. If you’re like me, you became aware of this issue when Uber removed the “when App is running” … Continue reading →

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Adtech Followup

Posted on 2017-06-10 by jcs

As a followup to my post the other day on Adtech Progress, here’s some commentary from the EFF on the Google and Apple announcements. The TL;DR is that although the EFF welcomes both initiatives, they regret that Google, unlike Apple, … Continue reading →

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Replacing Scrivener with Emacs

Posted on 2017-06-09 by jcs

If you’re a writer who’s been using Scrivener, here’s a video on replacing Scrivener with Emacs and Org mode. The author is really a Vim guy so he’s using Evil but that’s really just a detail. His configuration as well … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit’s Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2017-06-08 by jcs

Karl Voit is an expert on organizing and storing information. One of his basic building blocks is Emacs and Org mode. It’s interesting, therefore, to see the history of how he’s organized his Emacs configuration. If you follow the link … Continue reading →

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Some Progress on Adtech

Posted on 2017-06-07 by jcs

Regular readers know that Adtech is the general term for the technology that advertisers use to spy on us and collect information about our buying and surfing habits. It’s widespread, mostly fraudulent from an advertisers’ point of view, is a … Continue reading →

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Importing Data from a RESTful Website into an Org Table

Posted on 2017-06-06 by jcs

Charl Botha has a really interesting post on importing data from a RESTful Webservice into an Org table. He gives the example of downloading cryptocurrency trading values and updating a table showing the total value of a user’s holdings but … Continue reading →

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Semantic Locality

Posted on 2017-06-05 by jcs

I’m an old time Unix guy who’s still more comfortable on the command line than a big GUI. That’s probably why I enjoy living in Emacs to the extent possible. One of the most powerful concepts from Unix is the … Continue reading →

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Fuco1 on Anchored Fontlocking

Posted on 2017-06-04 by jcs

Matus Goljer (Fuco1) has a really meaty post on one of the dark corners in Emacs. By dark corner I mean little understood and complicated. Fuco1 doesn’t think very much of the font lock logic, depending, as it does, on … Continue reading →

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Some Scimax Enhancements

Posted on 2017-06-03 by jcs

I’ve been seeing a lot of tweets and posts asking about how to do Python development in Emacs. There are a bunch of good solutions, of course, but one of the best resources is John Kitchin. Kitchin is a Chemical … Continue reading →

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Another Emacs Mail Solution

Posted on 2017-06-02 by jcs

I’ve recently blogged about Emacs solutions to handling email. As most of you know by now, I’ve settled on mu/mu4e and have been extraordinarily happy with it. Still, not everyone has the same workflow or likes the same things. Andy … Continue reading →

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