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Google Channels Lucy

Posted on 2021-05-26 by jcs

Almost every fall during its 50 year lifetime, the Peanuts comic strip would run a variation of the Lucy and Charlie Brown football gag. The basis of the gag is that every year Lucy would talk Charlie Brown into trying … Continue reading →

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Magit 3.0 Released

Posted on 2021-05-25 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli has just released Magit 3.0. It doesn’t appear to have reached MELPA yet but will doubtless appear shortly. The new release contains over 1,200 commits and comes two and a half years after the last feature release. Bernoulli’s … Continue reading →

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Sudo

Posted on 2021-05-24 by jcs

Anyone who works in a Unix or Linux environment is familiar with the sudo command. Sudo allows the user to execute a command as root. That’s sometimes necessary even for the most basic users who aren’t operating on a locked … Continue reading →

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Mechanical Keyboards

Posted on 2021-05-23 by jcs

I’m a huge fan of mechanical keyboards. Back in the old days that meant the IBM Model M and its latter day incarnation from Unicomp. I’ve had both—although I foolishly left my Model M behind at my last job—and there’s … Continue reading →

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Two Tramp Tricks

Posted on 2021-05-22 by jcs

Over at TAONAW JTR has a nice post on a couple of tramp tricks. They’re pretty simple and don’t require any heavy duty configuration or setup. The first is to set dired-dwim-target to t. The variable is a bit more … Continue reading →

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Science and Politics

Posted on 2021-05-21 by jcs

Via John Cook, we have this thought for the day from John Barry: “When you mix politics with science, you get politics.” — John Barry — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) May 18, 2021 We can all agree that politics is … Continue reading →

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Org 9.4.6 Released

Posted on 2021-05-20 by jcs

Bastien has announced that Org-mode 9.4.6 has been released. It’s a bug release and is planned to be the last release before version 9.5. The easiest way to get it is from Org ELPA.

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Tools for Your Development Environment

Posted on 2021-05-19 by jcs

Chris Rose over at offby1.net has an interesting post on tools to enhance development environments. Other than the fact that one of his recommendations is Doom Emacs, the post isn’t really Emacs-centric. Rather, he considers a series of standalone tools … Continue reading →

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Emacs and Web Browsing

Posted on 2021-05-18 by jcs

I’ve written many times that almost all my computer time is spent in Emacs and my browser (Safari). What all us everything-in-Emacs devotees want is to do away with using an external browser. We yak yak yak about eww but … Continue reading →

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Ivy To Selectrum

Posted on 2021-05-17 by jcs

I’ve written many times how important the Ivy/Counsel/Swiper package is to my workflow. Other than Org-mode, it is the most important package in my Emacs panoply. Even so, it does so much that I don’t make use of all its … Continue reading →

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