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Red Meat Friday: Journalists (Again)

Posted on 2021-04-16 by jcs

Okay, one more swipe at journalists and then Red Meat Friday will move on. Unless, of course, the Minions force my hand. From time to time I’ve had some harsh words about the moral and work ethic failings of journalists … Continue reading →

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Reasons for Clojure

Posted on 2021-04-15 by jcs

Irreal regulars know that I’ve been exceedingly wishy-washy about learning Clojure. Every time I see a video from Zamansky or someone else using it, I get excited about learning and trying it out. Other times, I get hung up on … Continue reading →

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Emacs Diary and Calendar

Posted on 2021-04-14 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted another of his excellent videos on Emacs. This time it’s about the Emacs Diary and Calendar operations and how they work together. It turns out that the diary and the calendar are tightly integrated and work … Continue reading →

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Deactivate Mark

Posted on 2021-04-13 by jcs

If you’re like me, you probably don’t think very much about activating and deactivating the mark. We know it gets set when we do a large movement or when we set it manually with Ctrl+Space. We know that the current … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Native Compilation

Posted on 2021-04-12 by jcs

As a nice coda to Saturday’s post on native compilation, the incomparable Mickey has his own post on native compilation. As most Emacers know, Mickey is an Emacs expert and his opinions on Emacs matters are always worth paying attention … Continue reading →

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Name & Shame: Procter & Gamble

Posted on 2021-04-11 by jcs

The other day, I saw this disturbing post on Daring Fireball. The TL;DR is that Procter & Gamble (P&G) has been working with several Chinese trade and advertising groups to develop and test a way of bypassing Apple’s upcoming iOS … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation: Ready to Merge

Posted on 2021-04-10 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii has announced that he expects to merge the new native compilation code into the Master branch next week. This is a significant milestone for a really important feature. Most of the comments were along the lines of “I’ve … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Journalism

Posted on 2021-04-09 by jcs

You guys might think I’m hard on journalists but here’s how an expert does it: ‘Journalism’ today is basically what happens when you take science, and you subtract – training – scholarship – theory – data – peer review – … Continue reading →

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Running a Shell Command from Emacs

Posted on 2021-04-08 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a short post on using Meta+! to run a shell command from the minibuffer. The output can go to various places—see Batsov’s post for the details—but usually what you want is to specify … Continue reading →

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No Post Today

Posted on 2021-04-07 by jcs

I’ve been under the weather most of the day and am only now beginning to feel better so there will be no (substantive) post today.

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