Author Archives: jcs

An Org-mode to DOCX Pipeline

Posted on 2022-10-28 by jcs

Erik L. Arneson has a useful post that describes his method of converting an Org document to DOCX. His reason for doing that is the usual: his clients want a Word document but like all right thinking people, Arneson prefers … Continue reading →

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Speeding Up Emacs Garbage Collection

Posted on 2022-10-27 by jcs

Tyler Dodge over at Living the Dream Blog has a very interesting post on his research on Emacs garbage collection time. He discovered that a a simple parameter change could reduce garbage collection wall clock time by 50%. The change … Continue reading →

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Another Hugo Blogging Workflow

Posted on 2022-10-26 by jcs

Andrey Listopadov has (yet another) post on blogging with Hugo. His post is distinguished by his attempt to be comprehensive. He says that when he was trying to start blogging all the “how to” posts were too shallow to be … Continue reading →

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Playing YouTube Videos in Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →

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Undo In Region

Posted on 2022-10-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tms9918 says he sometimes changes a line, make changes in other parts of the file, and then wants to restore that first line. He was asking if there was anyway of doing that. There is, … Continue reading →

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Organizing Your Life With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-10-23 by jcs

Karl Voit has reposted an article from 2018 on using Org-mode to organize your life. Voit, as many of you know, is very interested in personal information managers (PIMs) and curating information for later retrieval. He says that when he … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Generating TOTP Codes

Posted on 2022-10-22 by jcs

Happily for us Emacsers, Mickey has been blogging up a storm on Emacs topics lately. His latest offering is on generating TOPT codes with Emacs. TOPT is “Time-Based One-Time Password”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s the basis … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Copilot and Copyrights

Posted on 2022-10-21 by jcs

Three weeks ago I wrote in Red Meat Friday: VS Code As A Venus Flytrap about Geoffrey Huntley’s post on how VS Code is all part of Microsoft’s plan to destroy open source and pull everyone into software as a … Continue reading →

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The Lisp Community

Posted on 2022-10-20 by jcs

Here’s a charming post on the Lisp community. I like it for a couple of reasons. The first is that Owmagow wasn’t afraid to dig in and figure things out even though he realized there were already libraries available to … Continue reading →

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Is “Software Engineer” A Legal Job Title?

Posted on 2022-10-19 by jcs

If you do software development work, your job title almost certainly is some variation of “software engineer”. It’s a ubiquitous way of describing a developer role. So much so that it hard to see how it could be controversial but … Continue reading →

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