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Why RSS Is The Right Thing

Posted on 2025-10-08 by jcs

Tom Burkert has a nice post in which he extols the virtues of RSS. You might wonder what there is to extol. RSS is a simple protocol—the “simple” is in its name, after all—and it’s pretty easy to implement. That … Continue reading →

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Printf Style Debugging Of Elisp

Posted on 2025-10-07 by jcs

All the cool kids use debuggers for debugging their code. In most situations that’s the right answer. After all, you can set breakpoints, step through your code, and examine values at each step. If you want a detailed view into … Continue reading →

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Capturing Fleeting iOS Notes Org Mode

Posted on 2025-10-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, ValuableBuffalo is looking for a way of taking what he describes as “fleeting notes” on his iPhone and capturing them to an Org file in his Git repository. As soon as I saw that, I … Continue reading →

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How RSS Beat Microsoft

Posted on 2025-10-05 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of RSS and use it everyday to scour the Internet for potential Irreal topics and also just for topics that I find interesting or useful. I was there at the beginning—although … Continue reading →

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Ashton Wiersdorf On Organizing Papers For Research

Posted on 2025-10-04 by jcs

Ashton Wiersdorf has a nice post on how he organizes papers, notes, and citations for his research. Of course, Emacs is at the center of that process and it’s another aspect of Emacs use that fascinates me. A couple of … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs

Posted on 2025-10-03 by jcs

Chris over at Entropic Thoughts has some thoughts on blogging and Emacs. He’s conflicted. On the one hand, he yearns for a simple, static blog generator that he can understand. On the other hand, he uses Org Babel a lot … Continue reading →

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Org-transclusion

Posted on 2025-10-02 by jcs

Over at the OrgRoam subreddit, thephatmaster asks for some help in using org-roam to organize and write his research. As of this writing, he hasn’t gotten much response but there is a comment that recommends he take a look at … Continue reading →

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Bending Emacs: Episode 1

Posted on 2025-10-01 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is trying a different way of communicating his ideas and projects to us. He has a new YouTube channel for this and has posted his first video, Bending Emacs – Episode 1. It’s a very nice step-by-step explication … Continue reading →

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The Author On Inhibit Mouse

Posted on 2025-09-30 by jcs

Note Sorry this is late. The Internet has been out all day here. Post James Cherti, the author of inhibit-mouse, has a blog post that talks about the package. Irreal wrote about the package last week but you may enjoy … Continue reading →

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Eliminating Emacs “Bloat”

Posted on 2025-09-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, emacff wants to know how he can eliminate Emacs “bloat”. It’s a harmless question and if it’s purpose was trolling, it largely failed as emacff received reasonable answers to his question. Still, it’s annoying. We … Continue reading →

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