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🥩 Red Meat Friday: The Apple TV Price Increase

Posted on 2026-07-17 by jcs

Jason Snell has a few words to say about Dan Rayburns’s post on LinkedIn concerning the price increase for Apple TV and why it spells the end of the device. I, too, have a couple of things to say. First, … Continue reading →

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The Computers Of Jurassic Park

Posted on 2026-07-16 by jcs

Jurassic Park was released 33 years ago. If you were there or know anything the movie, you know that computers played a large role in making it. The most famous example of that was the CGI rendering of T-Rex. I … Continue reading →

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Update To Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-15 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote that I had reconsidered my stance on Jinx and decided to give it a serious try. The only problem I had was that picking the correct spelling wasn’t working as advertised. I speculated that this was probably … Continue reading →

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Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-14 by jcs

In a stunning case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been running across the Jinx spelling corrector everywhere. I had never heard of it until last week when I watched and wrote about Prot’s video on writing in foreign languages with … Continue reading →

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Gruber On Apple Advertising

Posted on 2026-07-13 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has an excellent article about the slippery slope Apple is on with their embracing of advertising. I’ve written about this before. For a company like Apple, advertising is deeply corrupting and inevitably ends with … Continue reading →

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Jinx For Spell Correction

Posted on 2026-07-12 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Jinx spell corrector. Mbork has tried fly-spell but found it too laggy for his purposes. That was back in the days when he had a Pentium class machine running at 100 … Continue reading →

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Highest Org Priority

Posted on 2026-07-11 by jcs

If you’re an Org user, you probably know that you can assign a priority to TODO items. By default, the priorities are A, B, and C but with a bit of trickery you can extend the ranges to 0–9 and … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Apple And The Cost Of Ram

Posted on 2026-07-10 by jcs

The technical press is wetting their pants—or pretending to—about Apple1 raising prices on many of their products due to the AI industry fed rise in RAM prices. It’s outrageous, they claim. Apple should just eat the cost of those increases … Continue reading →

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Globally Overriding Keys

Posted on 2026-07-09 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (prot) has an excellent video that addresses a problem I often see people asking about. The problem is how to globally set a key binding so that it won’t be overridden. He uses setting Meta+o to other-window as … Continue reading →

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Insert Mode

Posted on 2026-07-08 by jcs

My pal Watts Martin has a post that explores an artifact from the past: the insert key. Martin, who’s been a Mac head much longer than I have, remembers when Mac keyboards still had an Insert. They no longer do, … Continue reading →

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