Author Archives: jcs

Eight Reasons Emacs Is The Best Editor

Posted on 2021-08-06 by jcs

Alex Wulff has an interesting post that lists eight reasons that he believes shows that Emacs is the best editor. The Emacsistas on Irreal don’t need any reasons or posts; they’re already secure in their belief of Emacs’ supremacy. Still, … Continue reading →

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Techdirt Steps Up

Posted on 2021-08-05 by jcs

Everyone, including Irreal, is always yap, yap, yapping about adtech and tracking ads but few actually do anything about it. To be fair, there’s little most of us can do other than post screeds and write letters to our congressional … Continue reading →

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Editing Browser Input in Emacs

Posted on 2021-08-04 by jcs

One of the downsides of being a Safari user is that the extension architecture doesn’t support the functionality that other browsers do. In particular, where other browsers allow you to call out to Emacs when editing fields in the browser, … Continue reading →

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Managers and Remote Work

Posted on 2021-08-03 by jcs

It can be argued that COVID-19 has forever changed the way we work and the nature of the employer/employee relationship. Many managers stuck in the previous mindset are now struggling to justify their demands that workers return to the office. … Continue reading →

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Progress ⁢⨉ 2

Posted on 2021-08-02 by jcs

There were two bits of progress reported yesterday. The first is the announcement of the release of Magit 3.2. I’d describe the changes, as listed in the announcement, tweaks that make Magit more useful but nothing earth shattering. You can … Continue reading →

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Org-roam As a Second Brain

Posted on 2021-08-01 by jcs

David Wilson over at the YouTube System Crafters channel has a new video up on getting started with Org-roam and building a second brain. It’s the best introductory video I’ve seen on Org-roam and, of course, Wilson is promising more. … Continue reading →

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More on Writing Academic Papers with Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-31 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about Wouter Spekkink’s Org-mode setup for writing academic papers and promised to followup with Jonathan Bennett’s post on the same subject from a couple of years ago. As I started to prepare my post on … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Just Punishment

Posted on 2021-07-30 by jcs

Editorial Note For some reason, WordPress is refusing to post the embedded Tweet to Irreal’s database so I’m reduced to posting a link to it instead. This is yet another data point that makes me think I should suffer the … Continue reading →

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Writing Academic Papers With Org-mode

Posted on 2021-07-29 by jcs

Wouter Spekkink has an interesting post on his workflow for writing academic papers using Emacs and Org-mode. It’s a long post because he wrote it for several different audiences. He starts with what Emacs and Org-mode are and why someone … Continue reading →

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How We Know the Open Office Concept Has Failed

Posted on 2021-07-28 by jcs

As you all know to your sorrow, Irreal has been railing against open offices for years. COVID-19 has done more than anything to put an end to this abomination but like a vampire or a zombie, the concept is surprising … Continue reading →

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