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Red Meat Friday: As I’ve Said Before

Posted on 2022-04-08 by jcs

Most smart people know that you shouldn’t pay any attention to polls you see on Twitter. Those of us who aren’t as smart can’t help ourselves. Here’s a case in point: Ratings of #linux text editors from @linuxformat. Notably absent … Continue reading →

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The ACM Backfile

Posted on 2022-04-07 by jcs

Here’s some good news: the ACM has opened the first 50 years of its backfile. That’s all the articles between 1951 and 2000. That may be even better than it seems because recent papers are more apt to be available … Continue reading →

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Lab Leak: The Video

Posted on 2022-04-06 by jcs

Ryan Grim from The Hill has a video out that does a good job in summarizing the Vanity Fair article on the origin of COVID-19 that I wrote about a few days ago. In just over 10 minutes Grim does … Continue reading →

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Org Modern

Posted on 2022-04-05 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m not much for bling and fancy formatting in my editor but that’s a personal choice without a moral dimension. Plenty of people like to have their Emacs buffers look as nice as possible. For those … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28.1

Posted on 2022-04-04 by jcs

Yesterday, Eli bumped the version of Emacs to 28.1. I wasn’t sure if there would be further release candidates coming but at the time the release had not appeared on any of the FTP servers nor had there been a … Continue reading →

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April Fools Day

Posted on 2022-04-03 by jcs

At the risk of putting my nerd credentials at risk, I have a confession: I really hate April first and all the Internet silliness that goes with it. Many of the April fools day posts are extremely well done and … Continue reading →

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Vanity Fair on the Origin of COVID-19

Posted on 2022-04-02 by jcs

Vanity Fair has a long article on the origin of COVID-19 and the political maneuverings surrounding it. Additional documents have surfaced since the virus’s origin first became an issue. The TL;DR is that there was always substantial doubt from the … Continue reading →

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The Power of Emacs

Posted on 2022-04-01 by jcs

I saw this tweet by Daniel Nemenyi today: I use #emacs, not Word, for writing. It was playing up. Typing became sluggish. So I ran its profiler, typed a few lines, ran profiler-report and found a function gobbling up CPU. … Continue reading →

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An Emacs User Looks at Acme

Posted on 2022-03-31 by jcs

I’ve written before about the Acme editor. The first time it was about Russ Cox’s video tour of Acme. The second was Vince Foley’s take on Acme as an Emacs user. Those were almost 10 years ago so perhaps it’s … Continue reading →

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Another Paean to RSS

Posted on 2022-03-30 by jcs

Radosław Miernik has a post that’s another paean to RSS. He explains what RSS is, how it works, and its advantages to the reader. It’s mostly used to track blog entries but its application is actually broader. Basically any site … Continue reading →

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