Author Archives: jcs

SBCL 1.2.1 and Slime

Posted on 2014-07-16 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, SBCL 1.2.1 came out and as I reported at the time, although it compiled and installed correctly, there was a problem with Slime. The 1.2.1 SBCL release changed some internals that Slime relied on and … Continue reading →

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Résumés with Markdown or Org-mode

Posted on 2014-07-15 by jcs

Continuing with our theme of using Emacs for writing rather than coding, Mark Szepieniec and Christophe-Marie Duquesne have a couple of nice posts about writing your résumé in Markdown and then exporting it to the desired format with Pandoc. There’s … Continue reading →

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Creative Writing with Emacs

Posted on 2014-07-14 by jcs

Like many (most?) Emacs users, I do all my writing with Emacs. This mostly involves Org-mode but even when it doesn’t I’m still in some sort of Emacs buffer. I just came across this old Stack Exchange post asking about … Continue reading →

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Xah’s JavaScript Tutorial

Posted on 2014-07-13 by jcs

Many of us have benefited from Xah Lee’s Emacs Lisp tutorial. I found it very useful for learning the Elisp library and idioms. Now Lee has put together a JavaScript tutorial. When I was learning Elisp, I had the advantage … Continue reading →

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14 Great Programmers

Posted on 2014-07-12 by jcs

Over at NetworkWorld they have an interesting article featuring the 14 greatest living programmers. I was a bit surprised that DMR wasn’t on the list but then I remembered the part about living. Also, oddly, you and I aren’t on … Continue reading →

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Bad Spellers and Typists Rejoice

Posted on 2014-07-11 by jcs

Some people are bad spellers or at least consistently have trouble with certain words. Others can spell but are poor typists and constantly mistype words. Some, I suppose, fall into both categories. If any of this describes you, don’t despair: … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming and Your Emacs Configuration

Posted on 2014-07-10 by jcs

My init.el isn’t very organized. Partly, that’s because I like having a single file rather than the multitude of special configuration files that many of my Emacs heroes prefer. But even given that it’s a single file, it’s not really … Continue reading →

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Proced

Posted on 2014-07-09 by jcs

The invaluable Mickey has an excellent post up on proced, a ps/top-like utility built into Emacs. If you find yourself using top and ps—and what serious developer doesn’t?—you’ll love having the functionality built right into Emacs. One more reason not … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Org-mode

Posted on 2014-07-08 by jcs

John Kitchin is on a roll. Just the other day, I wrote about his org-ref project and the really great work he is doing in introducing his students to reproducible research via Emacs and Org-mode. Now, he has a new … Continue reading →

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Automating Git Bisect

Posted on 2014-07-07 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about Git bisect. It’s a way of finding the commit that introduced an error. It works by (essentially) doing a binary search on the commit history. Now, Curtis Poe over at Ovid shows us … Continue reading →

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