Author Archives: jcs

Emacs Rocks! Episode 15

Posted on 2014-11-19 by jcs

After 19 months, Magnar Sveen is back with episode 15 of Emacs Rocks!. Emacsers everywhere will rejoice, I’m sure. This episode is a demonstration of Pavel Kurnosov’s restclient package. It’s a very handy and simple way of exercising HTTP REST … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | 2 Comments

Lisp Weenies

Posted on 2014-11-18 by jcs

What’s wrong with the picture in A Cat Cons, my post from yesterday?

Posted in Programming | Tagged , | 2 Comments

The Longest Common Subsequence

Posted on 2014-11-18 by jcs

Atabey Kaygun has another great post. This time it deals with finding the longest common subsequence of two sequences. First Atabey describes a simple algorithm for finding the longest common subsequence and then implements it in Common Lisp. The surprise … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Cat Cons

Posted on 2014-11-17 by jcs

Via Magnar Sveen we have this offering from Dmitry Ignatiev (cons cat (cons cat nil)) pic.twitter.com/BmmyKhPEt8 — Dmitry Ignatiev (@lvsn) November 15, 2014

Posted in General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Sharp Quote and Emacs

Posted on 2014-11-17 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has some good advice on sharp quoting Elisp functions. It’s common for Elisp programmers to use a single quote (i.e the quote form) to mark functions. Malabarba explains why it’s better practice to use #’ (i.e. the function … Continue reading →

Posted in Programming | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Amazon and the Publishers

Posted on 2014-11-16 by jcs

Over at Vox.com, Matthew Yglesias has a provocative article on the contretemps between Amazon and the publishing industry and with Hachette in particular. It’s mainly been portrayed in the press as an argument over prices but Yglesias says that’s just … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Being Smart

Posted on 2014-11-15 by jcs

Matt Blaze has a realization that probably applies to us all. I know it applies to me. I was about to say "how can something be 'smart' if it doesn't work unless it's connected to the net" but then I … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Day of the Year

Posted on 2014-11-15 by jcs

This is really a note to myself. The other day I needed to figure out what day of the year it was. I was pretty sure that the Unix date command could tell me but I couldn’t remember how to … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged | Leave a comment

Using Emacs and Org Mode for a Journal

Posted on 2014-11-14 by jcs

Howard Abrams has an excellent post on journaling with Emacs and Org Mode. The post documents how his use of Org Mode evolved over time so you can see what (at least for him) worked and didn’t work. That’s very … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Counting Spanning Trees

Posted on 2014-11-13 by jcs

I really enjoy Atabey Kaygun’s blog. If you like Mathematics and Lisp, you’re sure to enjoy it too. A typical post looks at a mathematical problem and either presents a solution or experiments with the problem with Common Lisp. One … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged , | Leave a comment