Author Archives: jcs

Correcting The Orientation of macOS Photos on Linux

Posted on 2026-06-07 by jcs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why describes a problem—and its resolution—that I didn’t know existed. The TL;DR is that photographs taken with an iPhone are always captured in landscape mode but Apple’s software detects portrait photos and … Continue reading →

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Emacs 31.0.90 Pretest

Posted on 2026-06-06 by jcs

Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the first Emacs 31 pretest, emacs.31.0.90, is available for download. It’s been almost two years since the first Emacs 30 pretest came out so we’re pretty much on schedule for our yearly major … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Score One For The Luddites

Posted on 2026-06-05 by jcs

As many of you know, I have a special contempt for what I call “the new Luddites”: those who find (nonsensical) fault—usually for performative reasons—with technology. The most common current sign of the new Ludditism today is giving up smart … Continue reading →

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Inhibit The Mouse In Emacs

Posted on 2026-06-04 by jcs

James Cherti has a new version (Release 1.0.4) of his inhibit-mouse package available. As the name suggests, it disables the mouse while you’re using Emacs. I’ve written about inhibit-mouse before. As I said in my previous post my first thought … Continue reading →

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Writing Is Like Science

Posted on 2026-06-03 by jcs

Rachel Yang is a studying to be a research scientist. She’s currently a Ph.D. student at MIT but has already worked on some projects leading to breakthroughs. She tells the story of the first such project when she was an … Continue reading →

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Sdcv-quick Update

Posted on 2026-06-02 by jcs

Years ago, when I learned from mbork how to get my own copy of Webster’s 1923 dictionary my dictionary use was vastly improved. If you don’t know why having Webster’s 1923 is a big thing, here’s my original post on … Continue reading →

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My Growing Appreciation For EWW

Posted on 2026-06-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about using EWW to avoid paywalls and my experiments to see if it really worked. As I reported, it did in a surprising number of cases. But as I also wrote, I’m not … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Your Desk

Posted on 2026-05-31 by jcs

I’ve always had a thing about desks. I really enjoy looking at pictures of people’s work areas and in particular their desks. I’ve gone through stages. Sometimes I really liked renaissance desks, sometimes colonial desks, and sometime modern desks. Basically, … Continue reading →

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Reading Gmail In Emacs On macOS

Posted on 2026-05-30 by jcs

As most of you know, I don’t use Gmail or anything else from Google—except YouTube—if I can help it. They have, sadly, moved from “Don’t be evil” to “Do whatever you need to do to make us money”. For reasons … Continue reading →

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Auto Revert Ignore

Posted on 2026-05-29 by jcs

Just a quickie from Marcin Borkowski (mbork) today. Like many of us, mbork likes to turn on global-auto-revert so that any file open in Emacs that gets changed by an external process has the changes reflected in the Emacs buffer. … Continue reading →

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