Author Archives: jcs

Password Cracking Times

Posted on 2016-05-07 by jcs

Over at Better Buys they have an interesting post on password cracking times. The post includes an interactive app that lets you estimate the cracking time for various passwords. They also include several examples that show how cracking time is … Continue reading →

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Summary of Search and Replace Commands

Posted on 2016-05-06 by jcs

Om Prakash Singh has a very nice post on the Emacs search and replace commands. We all know the commands for forward and reverse incremental search (【Ctrl+s】 and 【Ctrl+r】), query-replace (【Meta+%】), and query-replace-regexp (【Ctrl+Meta+%】) but each of these commands has … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.3.5

Posted on 2016-05-05 by jcs

The new version of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL 1.3.5) has been released. According to the NEWS file, this month’s release fixes 3 bugs and introduces 4 enhancements. As usual, it built and installed without any problems on my Mac. … Continue reading →

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Multiple Org Capture Inputs

Posted on 2016-05-04 by jcs

David Zuber over at Storax has a useful post on enabling multiple inputs in an Org capture template. Templates are extraordinarily useful. I have several that I use several times a day. They do have a problem, though: you can … Continue reading →

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Harry Schwartz on Org Mode

Posted on 2016-05-03 by jcs

Harry Schwartz, who appears to have moved to Boston from New York, gave a talk at the Boston Emacs Meetup on Getting Started with Org-mode. It’s not really a tutorial but a demonstration of many of Org’s features and how … Continue reading →

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Building a Hugo Blog with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-05-02 by jcs

Chris Bonnell has a post up on how he blogs using Org and the Hugo engine. It’s another static page solution like the Jekyll and Nikola ones that I’ve written about before. This solution is a little trickier because Hugo … Continue reading →

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Zero

Posted on 2016-05-01 by jcs

That’s how many, out of 1,457, requests for electronic surveillance the FISA court rejected—in part or in whole—in 2015. But there’s nothing new here; that’s the same number they rejected in 2014. So don’t worry about all that spying the … Continue reading →

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What to do When Emacs Hangs or Crashes

Posted on 2016-04-30 by jcs

Jisang Yoo has a very nice post on recovering from Emacs hangs or crashes. He considers three topics What do do when Emacs hangs How to enable debugging What to do when Emacs crashes His advice on Emacs hanging seems … Continue reading →

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Tips on Writing a Major Mode

Posted on 2016-04-29 by jcs

Wilfred Hughes wrote an Emacs major mode for Cask. Afterwards, he distilled what he learned into a post on writing major modes. The post is not a tutorial on how to write major modes; it’s a few tips that will … Continue reading →

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Aphantasia

Posted on 2016-04-28 by jcs

Blake Ross and I have something in common. We’ve both learned a fact that blew our minds. The thing is, it blew our respective minds for opposite reasons. Ross suffers from a condition called aphantasia: the inability to form mental … Continue reading →

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