Author Archives: jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou on Notmuch

Posted on 2021-05-16 by jcs

As all of you know by now, I’m a big fan of mu/mu4e for handling email. For me, one of its major attractions is that it runs in Emacs. For those of us who prefer to do as much as … Continue reading →

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Writing A Programming Book

Posted on 2021-05-15 by jcs

Juan Manuel Tirado is a programmer who decided to write a book on Go. I’m not a Go programmer so I can’t comment intelligently on the book other than to bring it to your attention. What I can comment on … Continue reading →

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Distraction Free Writing

Posted on 2021-05-14 by jcs

Phil Newton does a lot of writing. He’s written a book and has a blog and does all his writing in Org mode. That sounds pretty much like me but unlike me, Newton likes to write in what he calls … Continue reading →

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A Year With Emacs

Posted on 2021-05-13 by jcs

Jakub Kadlčík just finished a year with Emacs. Before that, he was a Vim user for 10 years. He felt that he had reached “peak learning” with Vim except for writing plugins, which VimL made unattractive to him. Emacs’ extension … Continue reading →

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Nick Higham’s Blogging Workflow

Posted on 2021-05-12 by jcs

Nick Higham is a working mathematician so his blog has a heavy mathematical content and that means that he’s very concerned with integrating LaTeX into his workflow. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy because he writes his posts in org-mode and publishes … Continue reading →

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Being More Productive with Emacs

Posted on 2021-05-11 by jcs

Peter Prevos has an excellent series of beginner articles on being more productive with Emacs. The series comprises the following posts: Getting Started with Emacs Configure Emacs Distraction-Free Writing with Emacs Getting Things Done with Emacs Taking Notes with Emacs … Continue reading →

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Getting a List of Open PRs from Github

Posted on 2021-05-10 by jcs

Geoffrey Lessel is an Elisp n00b. Really a n00b. He’s not sure what the car and cdr of a list are and he doesn’t understand backquotes. But he’s not afraid to dig in and discover things as he goes along. … Continue reading →

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Correcting Text Messages

Posted on 2021-05-09 by jcs

A few years ago I used to joke that I was getting in touch with my inner teenager when I texted with SMS. These days, I text more often than I send email and Apple’s iMessage makes it easy to … Continue reading →

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Whence COVID-19

Posted on 2021-05-08 by jcs

Public health officials have seriously damaged their credibility with COVID-19 messaging. Many of the things they’ve told us have turned out not to be true. Some, such as their early advice on mask wearing, was a transparent lie that didn’t … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Y2K Redux

Posted on 2021-05-07 by jcs

It’s been a while but many of us still remember the problems, hype, and really bad movie centered around the Y2K bug. For you kids, that was a problem caused by the common practice of storing the year of dates … Continue reading →

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