Author Archives: jcs

Patching the Production Server

Posted on 2015-09-06 by jcs

Fixing a bug in production pic.twitter.com/saD82hLacz — Practical Developer (@ThePracticalDev) August 11, 2015 (via Jean-Philippe Paradis)

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Literate DevOps Video

Posted on 2015-09-06 by jcs

I’ve mentioned Howard Abrams’ posts on Literate DevOps before. I think of it as a sort of reproducible research where you record the steps you use to create a deployment image including the code for each step. Abrams does this … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.2.15

Posted on 2015-09-05 by jcs

The new SBCL (version 1.2.15) is out and ready for download. This release fixes some bugs, updates to ASDF 3.1.5, and makes some small improvements to PROGN and DEFCLASS. See the NEWS page for the details. As usual, I compiled … Continue reading →

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Move Back to Last Misspelling

Posted on 2015-09-04 by jcs

One of the handiest things I’ve learned from Pragmatic Emacs is using 【Ctrl+;】 to cycle through possible corrections for the last misspelled word. It’s especially handy because the point doesn’t have to be on or at the end of the … Continue reading →

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File Local Variables in an Org File

Posted on 2015-09-03 by jcs

A nice tip from Artur Malabarba: It’s often convenient to use file local variables in your Emacs files. It provides a way of setting certain Emacs variables—mode, fill-column, comment-column, etc.—on a per file basis. There’s a problem, though, when using … Continue reading →

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Pages in Emacs

Posted on 2015-09-02 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz over at One More Game-Dev and Programming Blog has a nice post on how and why to use pages in Emacs. Pages in Emacs are text separated by form feeds (0xC)1. As Ritz explains, it’s easy … Continue reading →

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Org Mode and Pandoc

Posted on 2015-09-01 by jcs

Bsag over at But She’s a Girl has a nice post on using Org mode and Pandoc. She says that she’s abandoned Markup in favor of Org mode because, among other things, it provides a rich set facilities for handling … Continue reading →

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Emacs is Sexy

Posted on 2015-08-31 by jcs

Apparently, #Emacs is sexy 😀 http://t.co/dAGUnlMK2X — Mathias Dahl (@themathiasdahl) August 4, 2015

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Adtech

Posted on 2015-08-31 by jcs

Because I live in the United States, I grew up with the notion that TV would provide me “content” for free in exchange for embedding advertisements in that content. It’s always seemed fair and reasonable to me so I’ve resisted … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Basics: Structuring Notes

Posted on 2015-08-30 by jcs

Ben Maughan of the wonderful Pragmatic Emacs is writing a series of articles on Org mode. It’s a big subject, of course, so he’s starting off easy by talking about the feature that got him started: structured notes. He covers … Continue reading →