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Snail Mail Too

Posted on 2013-07-05 by jcs

Here’s another reason, if you needed one, to forego snail mail. Forget the latency and cost; it turns out that the USPS takes pictures of both sides of every envelope they process. This is analogous to the NSA’s wholesale collection … Continue reading →

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Multiparadigm Elisp

Posted on 2013-07-04 by jcs

I got a pointer to an interesting Wilfred Hughes post from this Magnar Sveen tweet. The post, Adventures in Multi Paradigm Programming, looks at the power and flexibility of Emacs Lisp. One often hears how Elisp is a crappy language … Continue reading →

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Reprieve

Posted on 2013-07-03 by jcs

If you were a Google Reader user and neglected to retrieve your subscription data from Google, there’s a reprieve of sorts. Although Google Reader is no longer operating, Google is keeping your Reader data available until 2013-07-15. After that it’s … Continue reading →

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Phoneme

Posted on 2013-07-02 by jcs

It’s a good bet that most geeks have a gmail account. I use mine mostly for mailing lists but many use it as their main email account and consequently are apt to have sensitive data in their saved emails. If … Continue reading →

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Byte Compiling Elisp

Posted on 2013-07-01 by jcs

I used to obsess about byte compiling my Elisp files but then I realized that The only thing I ever byte compiled was my init.el and updates to the packages I load. Byte compiling your startup file makes no appreciable … Continue reading →

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Feedly

Posted on 2013-06-30 by jcs

Google Reader is going away on Monday. That means that Reeder, my RSS reader of choice, is going to stop working. So far, only the Reeder iPhone app has been updated. That’s useless to me because the iPhone screen is … Continue reading →

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An Interview With Sacha Chua

Posted on 2013-06-29 by jcs

Bastien Guerry turns the tables on Sacha and interviews her. It’s about 45 minutes so leave some time. The interview follows Sacha’s usual format of exploring how she (as the interviewee) came to Emacs and how she’s using it now … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Posted on 2013-06-28 by jcs

I guess our secrets are safe now.

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Prism: All Your Data In One Place

Posted on 2013-06-28 by jcs

After the heavy breathing from yesterday’s post, here’s a lighter touch on Prism.

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Can We Please Keep Our Eye On The Ball

Posted on 2013-06-27 by jcs

Careful Irreal readers will have detected that I’m not much of a fan of the Press. Yes, yes, a free press is vital to a free and democratic society and all that. I just wish they’d do a better job. … Continue reading →

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