Author Archives: jcs

SBCL 1.3.9 Released

Posted on 2016-09-07 by jcs

Steel Bank Common Lisp’s newest version, 1.3.9, is ready for download at the usual place. This month’s release is a small one that fixes a bug, optimizes some operations with complex numbers, and adds an enhancement that helps with garbage … Continue reading →

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Wisdom From Wilfred Hughes

Posted on 2016-09-06 by jcs

Some wisdom from Wilfred Hughes. I think this is right. Polyglot programmers are often very effective. They can take designs tested in one language and benefit another! — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) September 6, 2016

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Rewriting Git History with Rebase in Magit

Posted on 2016-09-05 by jcs

Charl Botha has a useful video on rewriting Git history with Magit. Botha gives three examples: Changing the commit message on any old commit Squashing two or more commits into one Splitting a commit into two or more separate commits … Continue reading →

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Cool Fact of the Day

Posted on 2016-09-04 by jcs

Matthew Anderson is right: I didn’t know I knew this but I do Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL — Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016 Hat tip to Karl Voit.

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Zamansky on Keyboard Macros

Posted on 2016-09-03 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about keyboard macros. I’m always inclined to think that everyone knows all about them but I keep reading tweets about people discovering their power and being … Continue reading →

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Computerphile: Unrolling Loops

Posted on 2016-09-02 by jcs

Professor Brailsford of Computerphile has an interesting short video on unrolling loops. He motivates the discussion by relating a story about the introduction of the Laserwriter. John Warnock, from Adobe, and Steve Jobs planned to show off the Laserwriter’s capabilities … Continue reading →

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Random Medical News

Posted on 2016-09-01 by jcs

From John Cook we have this bit of humor that also has the feel of truth: pic.twitter.com/ElqdpI9ywg — John D. Cook (@JohnDCook) August 5, 2016 I’m old enough that I can remember at least 3 cycles of Coffee is good … Continue reading →

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Escaping Org Examples in Org

Posted on 2016-08-31 by jcs

From Karl Voit we have this really useful piece of advice: TIL: you can use "org" blocks to write #orgmode examples and org-edit-special resulting in correct escaping: https://t.co/oeIR1sccfZ — Karl Voit (@n0v0id) August 30, 2016 If you follow the link … Continue reading →

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Two New König Videos

Posted on 2016-08-30 by jcs

Rainer König has posted two new videos in his OrgMode Tutorial series. Unfortunately for him but fortunately for us it’s raining in Augsburg so König has had to forego gardening in favor of making more of his excellent Org Mode … Continue reading →

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Configuring Emacs for PHP

Posted on 2016-08-29 by jcs

Ben Simon has a nice post on setting up Emacs for PHP. I don’t write in PHP and have no plans to start but Simon says it’s hard to get an intelligent setup for it that works for all PHP … Continue reading →

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