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What Could Go Wrong?

Posted on 2020-06-07 by jcs

Over at Six Colors, Jason Snell tells us that congress wants to tinker with the COVID-19 tracking framework set up by Apple and Google. Why not? What could go wrong? The same people who brought you the Government Healthcare Website, … Continue reading →

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A Handwriting Font

Posted on 2020-06-06 by jcs

Sacha Chua has perpetrated a truly wonderful hack. She’s built a font based on her handwriting. She’s using it for blog post titles and a few other places on her website, so take a look there to see what it … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Atom and VSCode

Posted on 2020-06-05 by jcs

I recently saw a tweet that has some things to say about Atom and VSCode that are sure to make certain heads explode. It’s red meat, it’s Friday so here’s today’s Red Meat Friday offering: Years ago, I wish I … Continue reading →

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Summarizing Class Notes

Posted on 2020-06-04 by jcs

Matheus Augusto da Silva has an interesting video that details how he uses Emacs and Org-mode to write summaries of his class notes. After a class, he likes to write a half page summary of his notes. He finds that … Continue reading →

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More on the Websockets Port Scanning

Posted on 2020-06-03 by jcs

This is a short update to my Websockets: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things post. That post discussed a tactic used by several Web sites that uses Websockets to scan for open localhost ports. There was some speculation that this … Continue reading →

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Arizona Sues Google

Posted on 2020-06-02 by jcs

As I said previously, if you care about privacy, you shouldn’t be using an Android phone. My point was that even if you believe Android phones are technically superior or equivalent to the iPhone, no reasonable person can doubt that … Continue reading →

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More On The Magit Initial Status Page

Posted on 2020-06-01 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about setting the initial visibility of Magit sections. It was a bit of a nuisance but without it I had large expanded sections that invited an inadvertent stage command that could freeze Emacs … Continue reading →

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Escape from VSCode

Posted on 2020-05-31 by jcs

Zameer Ul Haque has an interesting post in which he describes his escape from VSCode. Usually when you see stories like this, they’re about escaping from Vim and moving to Emacs or the other way around. Now that the new … Continue reading →

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Ed in Emacs

Posted on 2020-05-30 by jcs

You live long enough, you see everything. I just came across ed-mode. If you’re an Emacs user who also has retro tendencies and likes to play around with old-time editors, now you can explore the “standard Unix editor” from the … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Star Wars and the Light/Dark Controversy

Posted on 2020-05-29 by jcs

The minions at Irreal, it appears, refuse to let the light-mode/dark-mode debate die. Here’s the latest offering: Your choice between light mode and dark mode on your phone clearly dictates whether you’re Jedi or Sith — Shivon Zilis (@shivon) April … Continue reading →

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