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Dictating Into Emacs

Posted on 2026-10-23 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a really nice post on dictating into Emacs. She starts by quoting Matt Weber on how he writes better than he speaks. Chua can relate and so can I. We both feel the same way. As I’ve … Continue reading →

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The iPhone Duo

Posted on 2026-10-22 by jcs

There’s a tremendous amount of excitement about Apple’s new foldable iPhone, the Duo. A grown journalist squealed like a teenager when she saw John Ternus sporting one at a recent event. Apple is claiming that demand is so high that … Continue reading →

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Bloom Filters To The Rescue

Posted on 2026-10-21 by jcs

Cristi Cretan has a very nice post on using Bloom filters to reduce system load. The TL;DR is that his team had a system that used a database to determine if they had seen a certain file before. That’s pretty … Continue reading →

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A Small Improvement

Posted on 2026-10-20 by jcs

As you all know by now, I really hate being spied on by web sites and other on-line entities. I’m pretty sure this misbehavior won’t be legal much longer but I’m equally sure that the on-line advertising industry won’t go … Continue reading →

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The Takete-Maluma Effect

Posted on 2026-10-19 by jcs

Many years ago when I was still an undergraduate, I took a general psychology course as one of those annoying Liberal Arts electives that nerds—even at technical schools—are forced to endure. It turned out that I enjoyed it but now … Continue reading →

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Debugging Init.el Files

Posted on 2026-10-18 by jcs

Randy Ridenour has an interesting post about debugging your init file. The main problem, he says, is that he sometimes makes a change that results in unbalanced parentheses. Often he doesn’t discover this until the next time he reboots Emacs, … Continue reading →

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Updating Clock Tables

Posted on 2026-10-17 by jcs

I usually write my posts the evening before I publish them but yesterday, as they say, life intervened. I went to a wedding and by the time I got home it was too late and I was too tired to … Continue reading →

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EMACS-FU!

Posted on 2026-10-16 by jcs

Years ago when I first starting using Emacs seriously, one of my go to sites for inspiration and ideas was Dirk-Jan C. Binnema’s EMACS-FU. He always had good ideas, not the least of which is the wonderful email client mu4e … Continue reading →

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Saving Window Configurations

Posted on 2026-10-15 by jcs

Over at techhub.social, lispwizard has a short post (or whatever techhub.social calls them) on saving window configurations to registers. He notes how easy it is to save multiple configurations and switch between them on the fly. Saving window configurations and … Continue reading →

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Wizard Tools

Posted on 2026-10-14 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote about James Cherti’s Org-ibullets package. Today I’m writing about another package that he announced at essentially the same time: wizard.el. It’s a package of some carefully written Emacs functions dealing mostly with editing and navigation. Cherti describes … Continue reading →

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