Author Archives: jcs

Abo-abo on Org-Roam

Posted on 2021-01-01 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m very taken with the Zettelkasten idea and have implemented my own (sort of) Zettelkasten with Org-mode. My homegrown solution is not very featureful or convenient so I installed org-roam (a FOSS alternative to the popular … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

Posted on 2020-12-31 by jcs

There’s not much happening today so I’m going to settle for wishing all Irreal readers a very Happy New Year from the Minions and me.

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A Global Hyper Key

Posted on 2020-12-30 by jcs

There’s an interesting article over at Prodtyping that illustrates how to implement a global Hyper key on the Mac. By “global” I mean it works everywhere, not just Emacs. The idea is to use Hyper as a global shortcut key. … Continue reading →

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Emacs FAQ

Posted on 2020-12-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, okimka suggests that an Emacs FAQ for the subreddit would be a good idea and even suggests a few questions and their answers. The comments generally complained about the questions and some of the answers … Continue reading →

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More on Emacs and the Unix Way

Posted on 2020-12-28 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) just put up an interesting post that serves as a nice coda to yesterday’s Irreal post, Emacs As a 2D CLI. His take is not so much that Emacs fits nicely into the Unix paradigm but that … Continue reading →

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Emacs As a 2D CLI

Posted on 2020-12-27 by jcs

Hongchao Liu has an interesting discussion about viewing Emacs as a two dimensional command line interface. He begins by arguing that Emacs does, in fact, adhere to the Unix principal of doing one thing well. That’s very counterintuitive but Liu … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Reproducible Research

Posted on 2020-12-26 by jcs

Thibault Lestang of Oxford University has a very nice video that makes the case for using Emacs and, in particular, Org-mode for academic research. He’s very interested in reproducible research and his talk is centered around the idea of Org-mode … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: C++

Posted on 2020-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas and it’s Friday so here’s a little gift from the Minions and me: #quotes #tech #CPP #programming #language #emacs pic.twitter.com/K5uWmRuVph — Devopedia (@devopedia) December 25, 2020

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This Is Tech Journalism II

Posted on 2020-12-24 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago I made fun of tech journalism. It was an easy—some might even say a cheap—shot but Gizmodo brings this kind of ridicule on themselves. Sadly, besides the buffoonery, there’s actual malpractice going on. Cellebrite is … Continue reading →

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Finding Pangrams in the NYT Spelling Bee Puzzle

Posted on 2020-12-23 by jcs

From time to time I find a reference to a New York Times article in my feed. I had to register with the NYT to be able to read them and one side effect of that registration is that every … Continue reading →

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