Author Archives: jcs

Put a Fork in it.

Posted on 2015-07-23 by jcs

Finally, there’s a real push to get rid of one of the worst exploit vectors. Ever since Alex Stamos’ tweet calling for an end-of-life for Flash there is accelerating agreement that it’s time to kill flash. The idea of Flash … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Cookbook

Posted on 2015-07-22 by jcs

I’ve written about this before but it bears repeating If you use #emacs or #orgmode and you write techincal documents check out: http://t.co/gcw0KMWRXy — David Bjergaard (@dbjergaard) June 10, 2015

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Org Returns

Posted on 2015-07-22 by jcs

Org mode can be a sort of odd beast when you’re editing in one of its buffers. That’s because even though it’s plain text it’s also providing a way of structuring text. Grant Rettke takes note of this fact and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Redux on Avy

Posted on 2015-07-21 by jcs

I’ve been a fan of ace-jump-mode ever since I saw Magnar Sveen’s outstanding video on jumping around. Development on the package has gone dormant but abo-abo came to the rescue with avy. I’ve written about avy previously and agree with … Continue reading →

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Emacs Zen

Posted on 2015-07-20 by jcs

Bryan Roberts over at Soul Physics has an interesting Githup repository, called Emacs Zen, that shows how to set up Emacs on OS X as a LaTeX/Markdown/HTML/CSS/JavaScript system. If you want an Emacs installation geared for writing, his repository has … Continue reading →

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Tiny

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has an excellent post on another of abo-abo’s great packages.

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Ubiquitous Encryption

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Bruce Schneier has an update on the NSA’s XKEYSCORE program. As usual with Schneier’s writing, it’s an interesting and informative read. What I liked most, though, was this observation at the end Ubiquitous encryption is the bane of listeners worldwide, … Continue reading →

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Moxie Marlinspike

Posted on 2015-07-18 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the need to make email encryption accessible to Aunt Millie (see here, here, and here for example). Sadly, it’s a really hard problem. Now, maybe there’s some hope. The Wall Street Journal has an interesting … Continue reading →

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Associating ielm with a Buffer

Posted on 2015-07-17 by jcs

Another handy tip from Wilfred Hughes: Today's hidden Emacs gem: pressing C-c C-b in an ielm buffer lets you associate it with a buffer, so you can inspect buffer-local variables. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) June 7, 2015

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The EFF’s Most Important Cases

Posted on 2015-07-17 by jcs

This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 25 anniversary. ars technica celebrated that anniversary with a nice article on the EFF’s most influential cases from its first 25 years. The takeaway from the article is that the EFF has been fighting … Continue reading →

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