Author Archives: jcs

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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Git With Solo Projects

Posted on 2021-05-06 by jcs

Over at Fosslife, V.M. Brasseur considers the question of why you should use Git, or some other version control system, for your solo projects. Brasseur was shocked when one of her coworkers expressed surprise that she used Git even for … Continue reading →

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