Author Archives: jcs

Notmuch For Email

Posted on 2019-06-15 by jcs

As regular readers know, I am a very happy user of mu/mu4e to handle my email. It lets me handle email completely from within Emacs and it happily lives side-by-side with Apple’s mail app so I can read and write … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.2.90

Posted on 2019-06-14 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the first pretest of Emacs 26.3, 26.2.90, is available for download and testing. If you don’t mind living just a little bit on the edge, download and help with the testing. As always, thanks to John, … Continue reading →

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The Government Can’t Protect Your Data Either

Posted on 2019-06-13 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Equifax and First American Financial Corp breaches. I noted that the situation was out of hand and that even the curmudgeons at Irreal were ready to put aside their distaste for … Continue reading →

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Org 9.2.4 Is Released

Posted on 2019-06-12 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org-mode has a new release. #emacs #orgmode 9.2.4, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) June 11, 2019 As usual, thanks to Bastien, Nicolas, and the others for all the work they do … Continue reading →

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The Portable Operating System

Posted on 2019-06-11 by jcs

Unix is often credited with being the first portable operating system because it was written in a higher level language and could relatively easily be ported to new machines. That portability changed everything. But this post isn’t about Unix; it’s … Continue reading →

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Unicode Escape Sequences in Emacs Strings

Posted on 2019-06-10 by jcs

Xah Lee recently tweeted out a reference to one of his old pages on Emacs Lisp. This one considers specifying Unicode escape sequences in Emacs strings. It’s a handy guide and well worth giving a look. Doubtless, you could find … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs

Posted on 2019-06-09 by jcs

Saurabh Kukade is planning a series on configuring Emacs. His introductory post discusses why he thinks Emacs is so cool. Most bloggers who write about Emacs end up posting something like that, of course, but I always enjoy reading why … Continue reading →

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The Unpickable Lock

Posted on 2019-06-08 by jcs

It used to be, and probably still is, a rite of passage for young hackers to learn how to pick locks. I believe this started at MIT where the idea of locked /anything/—software, doors, …—was an anathema, and challenge, to … Continue reading →

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Correcting Org Tags

Posted on 2019-06-07 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I was adding some item to my journal—which is really my engineering note book—and when my capture template prompted me for a tag and I started to type it in, I noticed that in the … Continue reading →

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Remote-First Companies

Posted on 2019-06-06 by jcs

Kevin McArdle has an interesting post on working remotely. He makes an interesting point: we have all the technology to make working remotely a reality but we still talk of it as something in the future. Why, he asks, aren’t … Continue reading →

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