Author Archives: jcs

Taking Yegge’s Advice

Posted on 2022-03-29 by jcs

Last week, I wrote about Steve Yegge’s latest Emacs video, Emergency Emacs. The video was mostly about rebinding the Emacs commands that he uses frequently to be as easy to type as possible. One of his rebindings was to replace … Continue reading →

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REPLs and Interactive Programming

Posted on 2022-03-28 by jcs

Mikel Evins has a post from back in December of 2020 that recently popped up in my feed for some reason or another. It’s an interesting post about one of my favorite programming topics: interactive programming. In it, Evins examines … Continue reading →

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Searching As You Like It

Posted on 2022-03-27 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez likes that Emacs’ customizability means that you can make it behave exactly the way you want it to. He illustrates this with a simple but useful bit of Elisp that implements what he describes as a DWIM search. … Continue reading →

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File Templates in Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-26 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has to write a weekly summary of his team’s work. That summary has a fixed format so management provided a template for it. Being an Emacs user, Friesen, of course, wanted to write his report in Emacs. He … Continue reading →

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Who Can Work From Home

Posted on 2022-03-25 by jcs

The Journal of Public Economics has an interesting paper by Jonathan I. Dingel and Brent Neiman on How many jobs can be done at home. The TL;DR is that they looked at broad job categories and by using surveys on … Continue reading →

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Steve Yegge on Emergency Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-24 by jcs

If you’re an Emacs user you’re probably familiar with Steve Yegge’s famous Effective Emacs post. If you’re not, you should go read it right now. It’s full of suggestions to make you more efficient at using Emacs. It really increased … Continue reading →

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Protesilaos Stavrou on Emacs and Freedom

Posted on 2022-03-23 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted his talk to LibrePlanet 2022 on Emacs and the meaning of freedom as understood by those of us in the free software community. The talk is comprehensive in that he starts with an explanation of what … Continue reading →

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Org Speed Keys Implementation

Posted on 2022-03-22 by jcs

Tony Aldon has an interesting post on reddit that discusses the implementation of Org speed keys. That doesn’t seem like it would be all that interesting but it turns out to be more complex and involved than you might think, … Continue reading →

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Google To (Sometimes) Require ID in Australia

Posted on 2022-03-21 by jcs

Reclaim The Net has a very disturbing article about Google’s recent announcement that starting next month they will require proof of age before allowing Australian users to view certain “age-appropriate” content. The proof would consist of uploading a copy of … Continue reading →

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Structuring Writing as a List

Posted on 2022-03-20 by jcs

Posting to Irreal everyday means I do a lot of writing and spend a lot of time thinking about how to structure a few words into an intelligible whole. Over at DYNOMIGHT there’s a post that takes an interesting view … Continue reading →

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