Author Archives: jcs

Working From Home and Bosses

Posted on 2021-06-15 by jcs

Ed Zitron has a long Substack essay on why bosses hate remote work. The article, The Work-From-Home Future Is Destroying Bosses’ Brains, posits that it’s all about control but probably not for the reasons you’d expect. The proximate fear is … Continue reading →

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More on the Why of Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-14 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has a bit more to say on why he uses Emacs. Last time we stopped by his blog, he explained how he molds Emacs to enhance his blogging workflow. This time he’s answering a question on the Emacs/reddit … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law and The National Health Service

Posted on 2021-06-13 by jcs

We haven’t talked about the Iron Law for a while so here’s an example of its action on steroids. This story is about Britain’s National Health Service and their contemplated betrayal of their patients’ privacy. I’m an American so I … Continue reading →

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Tramp Mode with Zsh

Posted on 2021-06-12 by jcs

Lennart Karssen has a tip for those of you who use tramp and zsh. He observed that if zsh was running on the remote machine and he tried to open a file with Ctrl+x Ctrl+f long timeouts would occur making … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Another One Sees The Light

Posted on 2021-06-11 by jcs

Oh no! Those pesky Minions are at it again and have snuck another Light-mode/Dark-mode post into the queue. This time, MICROIDEATION recounts his journey from avid dark mode fan to the realization that, as Irreal keeps telling you, light mode … Continue reading →

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Molding Emacs

Posted on 2021-06-10 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has an interesting post on how he uses Emacs to blog. That’s easy, right? Just use Org-mode and some Org → Blog interface such as Hugo or org2blog and you’ve automated away almost everything except the actual writing … Continue reading →

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COVID-19: How We Got Here

Posted on 2021-06-09 by jcs

In a nice coda to yesterday’s post on origin of COVID-19, Erik Hoel has an excellent Substack essay on the lab leak hypothesis that isn’t a just rehash of the known evidence but instead considers the larger question of how … Continue reading →

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Another Look At COVID-19’s Origin

Posted on 2021-06-08 by jcs

Over at Vanity Fair, Katherine Eban has a very well researched article on the lab leak hypothesis for the origin of COVID-19. She interviewed more than 40 people and reviewed hundreds of pages of government internal memos, meeting minutes, emails, … Continue reading →

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Updating Emacs Packages from the Command Line

Posted on 2021-06-07 by jcs

Tassilo Horn has a (very) short post on how he updates all his Emacs packages from the command line. It involves installing auto-package-update but after that it’s simply a matter of calling Emacs and running auto-package-update-now. It would be easy, … Continue reading →

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An Org Setup

Posted on 2021-06-06 by jcs

Over at Mt. Solitary, Clinton Boys has a post on his Org-mode setup. In it he describes how he uses Org-mode to manage all his writing and the rest of his life. His basic layout is to divide his content … Continue reading →

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