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Piping In And Out Of Emacs Buffers

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about piping Eshell output to a buffer. It’s a cute trick but it only works in Eshell. It turns out you can do better. iLemming has a video on piping in and out … Continue reading

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Thompson’s Reflections on Trusting Trust revisited

As Irreal oldtimers know, My absolute favorite Computer Science paper is Ken Thompson’s Reflections on Trusting Trust. It is truly a thing of beauty. This is a beauty that should be appreciated in stages. In the first stage, we’re introduced … Continue reading

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Oil.el

It’s a lazy Sunday and there’s nothing much going on in the Internet to interest Irreal or its readers so I’m offering you this little nugget that popped up this morning. Oil.el is a tiny package that brings the functionality … Continue reading

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Bending Emacs 4: Batch Renaming Of Files

Álvaro Ramírez has a new video up. This one, Bending Emacs 4, demonstrates several ways of batch renaming files. The secret sauce in most of these methods is the ability of the Dired buffer to become writable and have the … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: AWS Is Down, I Can’t Sleep

Farce comes to the Internet. All right, farce comes to the Internet again. With the failure of AWS this week, many, many services were interrupted, including my Spanish learning app. It was annoying but, after all, you can always practice … Continue reading

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A Simple Emacs Dashboard

Randy Ridenour, whom I’ve written about before, has an interesting post on customizing the Emacs Dashboard. The Dashboard is something that appears when Emacs starts. It typically shows recently visited files and the current agenda items. It’s configurable—of course, it’s … Continue reading

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Mistakes Startups Make

Over at Reddit, MeirDavid has a truly terrifying post on why startups fail. He presents himself as a troubleshooter and his post is based on common problems startups in extremis experience. Like everything on the Internet these days, it’s hard … Continue reading

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Rendering SVG Images In Org Generated HTML

I’ve recently discovered to my surprise that rendering an SVG image in HTML from Org mode is difficult or at least poorly documented. It comes as news to me because the images that I want to render are always JPEGs … Continue reading

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World Clock Improved

In the old days, World Clocks were a sort of curiosity. There wasn’t a lot of need for them because most folks communicated with distant friends and colleagues with snail mail and later, I suppose, with email. In any event … Continue reading

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Emacs On The Go

It’s Sunday and nobody—especially me—feels like working so here’s a short interlude while we’re waiting for the new week to begin. The subject of today’s post falls in the broad category of what could be called “mobile Emacs”. Most of … Continue reading

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