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Wireless Charging Problems with the iPhone

Posted on 2020-09-04 by jcs

Apologies to those of you who aren’t members of the cult but this is another post on Apple products. For the last year or so I’ve been using a wireless charger for my iPhone. I like it because it’s easy … Continue reading →

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Finite State Machines in Python

Posted on 2020-09-03 by jcs

One of my favorite development strategies is using finite state machines. They’re not right for every type of problem but they have greater applicability than you might think. I’ve written several FSM-based applications almost always in C. C isn’t the … Continue reading →

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Two Clicks Needed for Menus on macOS

Posted on 2020-09-02 by jcs

This is another one of those posts that are of interest only to folks using Emacs on macOS. For some time, the Emacs menus haven’t been working right for me on macOS. In previous versions of Emacs/macOS, there would be … Continue reading →

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Typing and Bottlenecks

Posted on 2020-09-01 by jcs

Today is one of those days when life intervened and I’m late in getting a post out. Life may be intervening tomorrow too so be warned. Today I saw an interesting post by Thorsten Ball that considers the argument that … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 74: Eglot

Posted on 2020-08-31 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with another video in his Using Emacs Series. It’s worth noting that this is number 74. That’s a huge corpus of first rate videos serving the Emacs community. If you’re in NYC and run across Zamansky, … Continue reading →

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Tracking Exercise with Org-mode

Posted on 2020-08-30 by jcs

Polaris64 has a very interesting post about using org-mode to track his expercising. That doesn’t sound particularly interesting, I know, but read on to find out why I find it worth mentioning. If I wanted to track my exercising, the … Continue reading →

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Hyperbole

Posted on 2020-08-29 by jcs

A while ago, Bob Weiner asked me to take a look at Hyperbole and maybe write a post about it. It’s been in my queue to do that ever since but Hyperbole is a large and complex system and every … Continue reading →

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Amazon & Antitrust

Posted on 2020-08-28 by jcs

A surprising number of people hate Amazon. I say “surprising” because I don’t understand their animus. Sure, they send us a huge amount of what amounts to spam, have an unfriendly attitude towards organized labor—at least as concerns their own … Continue reading →

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From SMS to an Org TODO

Posted on 2020-08-27 by jcs

Many Org-mode users are looking for a way to add notes and TODOs when they aren’t at their computers. Most folks use one of the smart phone apps such as beorg or orgzly or perhaps even organice. Kevin Cunningham has … Continue reading →

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Another Thesaurus for Emacs

Posted on 2020-08-26 by jcs

It’s really handy to have a thesaurus handy when you’re writing, and of course if you’re writing in Emacs, you want to have that thesaurus available and easily accessible from Emacs. I’ve been using power thesaurus and its Emacs interface, … Continue reading →

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