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Red Meat Friday: Unintended Consequences

Posted on 2021-06-25 by jcs

Irreal readers are, I’m sure, smarter than the average politico so they would know better than to pass a law like this Colorado bill without considering the consequences. On its face, the law doesn’t seem controversial; it’s just a little … Continue reading →

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Technology Saves the World

Posted on 2021-06-24 by jcs

Everything you read about tech these days is more or less a screed on the evils of the technology community. The smugly ignorant journalists of the tech press, most of whom wouldn’t know code from a cod, float every conceivable … Continue reading →

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The New Luddites on the Apple Wallet

Posted on 2021-06-23 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, Apple is rolling out several enhancements to Apple Wallet. That represents technological progress so of course the new Luddites have taken offense and have rushed to publish articles denouncing it. The problem is that it’s hard … Continue reading →

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The Digital Wallet Moves Forward

Posted on 2021-06-22 by jcs

Those of you who have been hanging around for a while know of my obsession with digital wallets and reducing my everyday carry to just my iPhone. There’s been a lot of progress since I first wrote about it. Almost … Continue reading →

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Demonstration of Dired Video

Posted on 2021-06-21 by jcs

Like most Emacs users, I consider Dired the way of dealing with file operations. That means a lot coming from me because I’m an old timer used to dealing with such things from the command line. But even after a … Continue reading →

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YASnippet in Eshell

Posted on 2021-06-20 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a great, quick tip for Eshell users. Actually, it’s a good tip for any shell you’re using in Emacs. Ramírez starts by revisiting level 4 from Vivek Haldar’s classic post on the levels of Emacs proficiency. I … Continue reading →

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Universities Continue Their Slow Motion Suicide

Posted on 2021-06-19 by jcs

Universities seem intent on forsaking their traditional values with the expected results. Enrollments are down significantly and an increasing number of parents are performing cost/benefit analyses that don’t bode well for an improvement of those enrollment figures. One would think, … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs or VS Code

Posted on 2021-06-18 by jcs

For those of you wondering if you should adopt Emacs or VS Code, here’s your answer. You’re welcome.

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Adtech and FLoC

Posted on 2021-06-17 by jcs

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone with the slightest bit of skepticism or, indeed, two brain cells to rub together that Google’s replacement for cookies, FLoC, is a privacy nightmare. Google, of course, is touting the system as … Continue reading →

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Configuring Emacs as a Go IDE

Posted on 2021-06-16 by jcs

Bhavin Gandhi has a post that may be useful to those who want to use Emacs for Go programming. It’s easy to get things like syntax highlighting but for the full IDE experience you need the Go LSP server. Gandhi’s … Continue reading →

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