Author Archives: jcs

Sleeping in Unfamiliar Places

Posted on 2021-02-15 by jcs

npr has an interesting article on some recent research about what happens when humans sleep in an unfamiliar place. It’s long been known that humans don’t sleep well in an unfamiliar place. The effect is so common it even has … Continue reading →

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REPL Driven Development

Posted on 2021-02-14 by jcs

David Vujic has a nice post on interactive programming—what he calls “REPL driven development”—and the huge difference it’s made to his development workflow. His post, Test Driven Development Deluxe, recounts his frustration with having to switch context from the code … Continue reading →

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Fixing Two Spaces Between Sentences

Posted on 2021-02-13 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on how to deal with two spaces after a sentence when transferring data from Emacs to an external application via the clipboard. The problem is that mbork likes to use two spaces so … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The End of the Story

Posted on 2021-02-12 by jcs

The seemingly never-ending saga of SCO versus Linux may finally have come to an end. SCO’s Darl McBride who spearheaded the effort has declared bankruptsy. If you’re too young to remember those days, it’s hard to comprehend how much the … Continue reading →

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(goto-char 1) vs. (goto-char (point-min))

Posted on 2021-02-11 by jcs

Here’s a short tip for all you Elispers that clears up an obscure point about moving around in buffers. For a long time I’ve been dimly aware that the preferred way to move to the start of a buffer is … Continue reading →

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Burner Emails

Posted on 2021-02-10 by jcs

FourZeroThree has a nice four and a half minute video on how and why you should have a burner email account. The idea has been around for a long time under the name of disposable email addresses. The idea is … Continue reading →

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Video Demonstration of Org-roam

Posted on 2021-02-09 by jcs

If you’re wondering what org-roam is all about, there are a couple of useful videos over at the YouTube Emacs Elements channel. The first video explains what org-roam is and how it works. It works through a couple of examples … Continue reading →

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Emacs Editing

Posted on 2021-02-08 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, WorldsEndless has an interesting post that considers Emacs as a text editor. That is, how convenient is it to edit text with Emacs, putting any of its other virtues aside. He considers both the built-in … Continue reading →

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Mouseless

Posted on 2021-02-07 by jcs

If you grew up with computers using a GUI interface, the idea of not using a mouse probably seems ridiculous. Why would anyone want to do that? As I’ve said in other contexts, you can live without air conditioning too … Continue reading →

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Irreal Problems

Posted on 2021-02-06 by jcs

I just discovered this past week that I’m no longer getting emails notifying me of comments to Irreal posts. As far as I can tell, the problem started either with the new year or when I upgraded the Disqus WordPress … Continue reading →

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