Author Archives: jcs

Prosecuting the Press

Posted on 2021-10-15 by jcs

As you all know, Irreal doesn’t think very highly of journalists and the press. What Irreal likes even less is know-nothing politicos who nevertheless feel fully qualified to opine and pass judgment on technical matters. The Congressional hearings on social … Continue reading →

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Lets in Elisp

Posted on 2021-10-14 by jcs

John Kitchin has a short video in his Scimax channel that considers another Elisp construct. This video talks about let and its siblings. One of the first non-trivial things a new Lisper learns is how to deal with local variables … Continue reading →

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Zamansky-79: Project.el

Posted on 2021-10-13 by jcs

Mike Zamansky, on the heals of his last video, has another offering in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about the new Project library built into the latest Emacs. If you’re familiar with Bozhidar Batsov’s Projectile package, you can … Continue reading →

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How Kitchin Uses Elfeed

Posted on 2021-10-12 by jcs

John Kitchin has been vlogging up a storm. He’s producing so many videos, Irreal is having a hard time keeping up. One of his recent offerings is a really great1 video on one of my favorite Emacs packages: Elfeed. Elfeed, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky-78: Grading Workflow

Posted on 2021-10-11 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has come up for air and after a long hiatus, he’s back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. This video is about his project grading workflow. That may not seem to interesting to some folks but, … Continue reading →

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Discarding Git Commits

Posted on 2021-10-10 by jcs

Guangwang Huang (Whatacold) has an instructive video on how to discard commits using Magit. There are three methods: Hard reset Revert Soft reset They all have advantages and disadvantages. A hard reset is fast but the discarded commits are deleted. … Continue reading →

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Spell Checking Kitchin Style

Posted on 2021-10-09 by jcs

John Kitchin has another video up in his Scimax series. This one is about how he handles spell checking in Scimax. As I watched the video, I thought that his setup was really new and different but it turns out … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Spaces After a Sentence

Posted on 2021-10-08 by jcs

Today’s Red Meat Friday is about the “correct” number of spaces after a sentence. Irreal has written about this before, most recently here, but all of you were familiar with the controversy long before Irreal opined on the matter. Oddly, … Continue reading →

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Playing and Logging a Random Album

Posted on 2021-10-07 by jcs

Garjola Dindi has a delightful blog entry on how he leverages Emacs to enjoy his music. Dindi was nostalgic for the days when listening to music meant putting a vinyl disk on the record player. Back then, the friction of … Continue reading →

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They Don’t Want to Return

Posted on 2021-10-06 by jcs

CNBC has an interesting article about large-organization CEOs’ frustration at trying to get their workers back into the office. Workers have little interest in returning. Part of that is fear of COVID-19, of course, but many, having experienced the freedom … Continue reading →

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