Author Archives: jcs

Spacemacs

Posted on 2016-01-28 by jcs

There’s been a lot of buzz lately regarding Spacemacs. Probably the best way of describing it is as an Emacs environment that brings together VIM key bindings, an attractive UI, and a powerful customization capability. Sebastian Wiesner has a nice … Continue reading →

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Presentations With Org Mode

Posted on 2016-01-27 by jcs

Rob Rohan, whose work I’ve mentioned before, has posted a nice video about a bit of presentation software that he built. The software, bestowed, takes a normal Org mode outline and turns it into an HTML-based presentation. It does this … Continue reading →

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Clocking In and Out

Posted on 2016-01-26 by jcs

Sacha pointed me to this video by Mr. Swathe on logging the time spent on various tasks by clocking in and out with Org mode. The video is pretty elementary but it showed me enough to get going. I’ve tried … Continue reading →

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We Need More of This

Posted on 2016-01-26 by jcs

I love this. We definitely need more of it. My only suggestion is to make it longer. Making these busy bodies suffer is a moral imperative.

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Bling for Your Org Files

Posted on 2016-01-25 by jcs

If you like bling on your desktop, Robert over at thraxys has some suggestions for prettying up your Org files. The first involves replacing the heading stars with various types of UTF-8 bullets. He recommends ◉, ◎, ⚫, ○, ►, … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Collaboration

Posted on 2016-01-24 by jcs

Regular readers know that Irreal has disdain for open plan offices and those who perpetrate them on their hapless employees but, somehow, never on themselves. These office plans are always justified on the grounds of “increased collaboration” but there’s a … Continue reading →

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HUH?!?

Posted on 2016-01-23 by jcs

Remote SSH access with a hard-coded password? In a security device? Today? Who does this? UPDATE: The answer, it seems, is just about everyone.

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Is Object Oriented Programming Bad?

Posted on 2016-01-23 by jcs

One of our community’s favorite arguments, right after Vim versus Emacs and static versus dynamic typing, is whether object oriented programming is boon or bane. Like those other arguments, there is more often heat than light in the discussions. Brian … Continue reading →

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A Sad Security Prediction

Posted on 2016-01-22 by jcs

Those of us who care about security will find this sad but in our hearts we know it’s true: 1995: Every object in your home has a clock & it is blinking 12:00 2025: Every object in your home has a … Continue reading →

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Xwidget Branch Merged Into Emacs 25.1

Posted on 2016-01-22 by jcs

The XWidget branch has been merged into Emacs 25.1. One very important consequence of that is that it should be possible to embed webkit into Emacs. Perhaps we’re finally getting closer to the dream of a browser inside Emacs1. At … Continue reading →

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