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PSA: Use The Lucid Toolkit

Posted on 2024-12-25 by jcs

It’s Christmas, a day that we at the Irreal Bunker celebrate in large part by being slothful. Therefore, today’s offering is a quickie. On the other hand, since it is Christmas, you can also think of this post as a … Continue reading →

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Why You Want Your Tools To Be Programmable

Posted on 2024-12-24 by jcs

A constant theme here at Irreal is that one of Emacs’ virtues is its programmability. Not the ersatz programmability offered by VS Code or even Vim but real programmability. You can introduce new code or change old code while Emacs … Continue reading →

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24 Emacs Packages To Try During The Holidays

Posted on 2024-12-23 by jcs

Marie K. Ekeberg has a holiday gift for Emacs users: a list of 24 Emacs packages that you can try during the holidays. The list is interesting in that it doesn’t really have a theme other than that they’re packages … Continue reading →

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CISA Best Practices for Mobile Communications

Posted on 2024-12-22 by jcs

Recently, The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released some best practices for mobile communications. These are the result of the recent exploits attributed to The People’s Republic of China. While the recommendations were targeted at senior government officials, they … Continue reading →

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Emacs 30.0.93

Posted on 2024-12-21 by jcs

Andrea Corallo writes with some good news: Emacs 30.0.93, the third pretest for Emacs 30.1 is now available for download and testing. The developers are hoping that this is the last pretest before the final release procedure begins. This should … Continue reading →

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Don’t Leave Home Without It

Posted on 2024-12-20 by jcs

This post doesn’t rise to the Red Meat Friday level but it did amuse me. Like all such memes, it captures an essential truth. The “essential truth” here is that Elisp is the glue that you can use to bind … Continue reading →

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A Bit More On Guile Emacs

Posted on 2024-12-19 by jcs

A week ago, I wrote about the recent restoration of the Guile Emacs project. Despite my enthusiasm for the original project, I just couldn’t get excited about its resurrection. You can take a look at that post for my reasons … Continue reading →

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Building Emacs Configurations

Posted on 2024-12-18 by jcs

Jack Baty has a post that considers the best way of building an Emacs configuration. On the one hand, something like Doom Emacs provides a complete, no-brainer configuration that requires little effort on the part of the user. On the … Continue reading →

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What’s New In Emacs

Posted on 2024-12-17 by jcs

There are lots of different types of Emacs users, of course, but two distinct classes are those, like me, who stay pretty much up-to-date and those who are stilling running old versions of Emacs and are not familiar with what … Continue reading →

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Are You A Cyborg?

Posted on 2024-12-16 by jcs

Cyborgs. It’s a familiar trope to those of us who enjoy science fiction. I’ve always thought that I’m a bit too old to experience being a cyborg in any non-trivial way but then I read this article by Alberto Navarro . … Continue reading →

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