Author Archives: jcs

Emacs 24.5

Posted on 2015-04-11 by jcs

is released. The Change Log is here.

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Sacha Chua and John Wiegley on Elisp Development

Posted on 2015-04-11 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a great video chat with John Wiegley on Elisp development. If you work with Elisp, you really should spend the time to watch it. Chua and Wiegley start by discussing paredit and its capabilities. I’ve been using … Continue reading →

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The Tricorder Draws Nigh

Posted on 2015-04-10 by jcs

First Prototype of a Working Tricorder Unveiled at SXSW

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Python Tools for Emacs

Posted on 2015-04-10 by jcs

Sean Dague, who works on OpenStack, has a nice post on Emacs Python tools he uses to deal with the large Python code base of the project. If you work in Python, you’ll want to take a look at his … Continue reading →

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Abrams on Literate Programming

Posted on 2015-04-09 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a nice post on Literate Programming. By now that’s a fairly hoary subject—the idea dates back to Knuth in the early 1980s—but Abram’s post is nice because it considers how to do this with Emacs and Org … Continue reading →

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The Truth About Emacs

Posted on 2015-04-08 by jcs

Seems right to me: The truth about #Emacs: Everything seems way too hard at first, then you use it for a while, then you can't live without it. — Mohit Thatte (@mohitthatte) March 21, 2015

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The//Intercept on Choosing Passwords

Posted on 2015-04-08 by jcs

The//Intercept has an excellent article on how to choose secure passwords that are (relatively) easy to remember. The problem with passwords is that they are almost never secure. Most people choose stupid ones (password, 123456, \(\dots\)) and even those of … Continue reading →

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Ferrier on Agile

Posted on 2015-04-07 by jcs

InfoQ has a nice interview with Nic Ferrier on good software and agile. Irreal has mentioned Ferrier several times: he’s a good hacker and someone who deserves to be taken seriously. Ferrier’s take is the agile is a way to … Continue reading →

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Discovering Calc

Posted on 2015-04-06 by jcs

As some of you know, learning more about about calc has been on my TODO list for sometime (that’s literally true—it’s in my agenda). I last wrote about it just last week. I’ve finally stopped procrastinating and starting learning calc. … Continue reading →

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New Programming Jargon

Posted on 2015-04-05 by jcs

Recently, I wrote about the glories of the Jargon File and remarked that the hacker jargon it records is often hilarious. It’s easy to burn up a couple of hours browsing around in it. Now Jeff Atwood over at Coding … Continue reading →