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Another COVID-19 Shoe Drops

Posted on 2021-10-25 by jcs

Another shoe has dropped in the on-going drama of the origins of COVID-19. For the last 18 months, Anthony Fauci has loudly and emphatically denied that the NIH ever funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He went … Continue reading →

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The Scimax Channel

Posted on 2021-10-24 by jcs

As I noted previously, John Kitchin has been busy making and posting videos about Scimax, his Emacs starter kit targeted at scientists and engineers involved in programming and publishing. There are so many videos that I can’t hope to comment … Continue reading →

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Florida Digital License Coming in November

Posted on 2021-10-23 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve written about my quest to ditch my keys and wallet and be able to leave the house with nothing but my iPhone. All the blocking is due to automobiles. I still don’t have a … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Appearance

Posted on 2021-10-22 by jcs

WebDev Tory makes a point that many long time Emacs users can relate to: Lately there has been a little chafing at #emacs appearance. I’m quite happy with my low-distraction working environment, though, and don’t care for file-trees or LSP … Continue reading →

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The First Remote Worker

Posted on 2021-10-21 by jcs

In response to my post A Broken Way of Working, Perry Metzger left a comment pointing me at a podcast about the first remote developer. That would be Paul Lutus, who, among other things, wrote Apple Writer for the Apple … Continue reading →

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How To Avoid Search Warrants

Posted on 2021-10-20 by jcs

Last week, DuckDuckGo tweeted that they have had zero search warrants since their founding in 2008. That’s because they don’t log their users’ searches so there’s no useful information for law enforcement to demand access to. Contrast that to Google … Continue reading →

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RSS for the Researcher

Posted on 2021-10-19 by jcs

At the beginning of his Elfeed video, John Kitchen mentioned a paper by James Fraser on RSS for the researcher. This is notable for two reasons. First, there’s the paper itself, of course, but there’s also the very nice way … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Tool for Scientists

Posted on 2021-10-18 by jcs

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted a pointer to the draft of a paper by Timonthy Johnson that makes the case for Emacs as the tool for scientists to organize and report their research. The paper, Emacs as a Tool for Modern … Continue reading →

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A Broken Way of Working

Posted on 2021-10-17 by jcs

I’ve written several times about the future of work and my fascination with what used to be called digital nomads. The idea of remote work has become so common that the term “digital nomad” no longer makes sense and there … Continue reading →

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Scimax Notebook

Posted on 2021-10-16 by jcs

As I’ve said before, John Kitchin is producing so many videos that it’s hard to keep up. One of his recent videos is about Scimax Notebook, his implementation of digital notebooks based on Projectile, Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package. In … Continue reading →

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