Author Archives: jcs

LibreWolf

Posted on 2022-03-19 by jcs

I just saw a reference to the new LibreWolf project. It’s a fork of the Firefox browser that focuses on privacy and security. Among other things, they’ve eliminated all telemetry and data gathering and the annoyances that go with it. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Internet Laws

Posted on 2022-03-18 by jcs

Some of you may argue that today’s offering isn’t really Red Meat but since almost everybody will be offended by something in this list of Internet Laws, the Minions have ruled that it qualifies. You’ve probably seen some of these—Murphy’s … Continue reading →

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Emacs Command From Outside Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-17 by jcs

Sometimes it’s convenient to execute an Emacs command from outside Emacs. The traditional way of doing that is to run Emacs in server mode and use emacsclient like this: emacsclient –eval “(some-emacs-command)” You can, of course, execute several Emacs commands … Continue reading →

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Webjump

Posted on 2022-03-16 by jcs

How could I not know about this? It’s been in Emacs since Emacs 19.31 so it’s been around for at least 26 years. In case you, too, aren’t familiar with it, Bhaskar Chowdhury has a video that explains and demonstrates … Continue reading →

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Emacs 28.0.92

Posted on 2022-03-15 by jcs

Some good news from Eli. The third pretest for Emacs 28.1, Emacs 28.0.92, is now available for testing. As usual, if you can help with the testing by installing and using the pretest, please do so. The heroes who selflessly … Continue reading →

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Twenty Two Years With Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-14 by jcs

Arjen Wiersma has been an Emacs user for a long time: twenty two years. He has a lengthy post about that time that describes those years and also his current set up. It all started for Wiersma when, after drifting … Continue reading →

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Good and Bad Tags

Posted on 2022-03-13 by jcs

In response to my post How To Use Tags describing Karl Voit’s perspective on the use of tags, Christian Tietze pointed me to a post by Sascha Fast on The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags. Fast makes a good … Continue reading →

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Stevey’s Guided Tour of Emacs

Posted on 2022-03-12 by jcs

Steve Yegge, who is always interesting, has a nice video that he describes as a guided tour of Emacs. Yegge characterizes it as covering “roughly 12 features of Emacs, out of approximately 18 billion hillion jillion total”. If there’s an … Continue reading →

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Duck Duck Go Becomes Google

Posted on 2022-03-11 by jcs

Most Irreal readers know I’m not—more precisely, no longer—a fan of Google. The usual reason that I give for that is the fact that Google gobbles up as much of our private information as it can. But there’s another reason … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Dark Side of the Moon

Posted on 2022-03-10 by jcs

This is the day that Irreal celebrates the 49th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s iconic Dark Side of the Moon. It is one of the most successful albums of all time and still has a devoted following. Here at Irreal, it … Continue reading →

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