Author Archives: jcs

Flowmeter

Posted on 2024-12-15 by jcs

Every programmer—at least every programmer who actually programs—is familiar with the concept of flow. It’s a well established concept with lots of research to back it up even if some don’t believe in it. The trouble is, there are lots … Continue reading →

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Analog Vs. Digital Again

Posted on 2024-12-14 by jcs

Every time I think I’m done with the subject of analog versus digital notes, JTR makes another interesting post on the subject. His latest offering says he’s capitulated to the inevitable and is writing his notes digitally. Still, he says, … Continue reading →

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Law Enforcement Discovers Irony

Posted on 2024-12-13 by jcs

For years, anyone with a reasonable knowledge of the situation and no ax to grind has been preaching the gospel that today’s on-line society needs strong, end-to-end encryption for the safe conduct of our electronic activities. At the same time, … Continue reading →

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Showing Diff On Some Buffers

Posted on 2024-12-12 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has a post with a really nice tip. Almost all Emacsers know about save-some-buffers if only from fat fingering its default binding of Ctrl+x s instead of save buffer bound to Ctrl+x Ctrl+s. As Prot says, that’s handy … Continue reading →

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Guile Emacs: What’s Old Is New Again

Posted on 2024-12-11 by jcs

I remember that a long time ago I was excited about the Guile Emacs project. It’s aim was to replace Elisp with Guile Scheme while maintaining comparability by making Scheme grok Elisp. To be honest, I can no longer recall … Continue reading →

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Passwords And Their Problems

Posted on 2024-12-10 by jcs

In response to my recent post on How Passwords Are Stolen, Smitty remarked that the bar for brute forcing your credentials is lowering. I agreed and remarked that passwords are well past their sell-by date. Unfortunately, although some reasonable alternatives … Continue reading →

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Customizing The Emacs Startup Screen

Posted on 2024-12-09 by jcs

The Emacs Cat has another interesting post. This time it’s about customizing the Emacs startup screen. He wants to see something useful when Emacs starts up. In particular, he’d like to see A calendar His agenda His diary A random … Continue reading →

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Narrowing To A Subtree From Org Agenda

Posted on 2024-12-08 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, seidenkaufman asks how he can narrow to a subheading when he types Tab in the Org Agenda. If you don’t do that sort of thing it may not seem all that useful but, believe me, … Continue reading →

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How Passwords Are Stolen

Posted on 2024-12-07 by jcs

As most you know by now, I live a digital life as much as possible. I pay my bills, do my banking, order my food and other shopping, communicate with friends and family, and get my news electronically. For someone … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Emacs Use == Skills

Posted on 2024-12-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Thick_Rest7609 says that he associates Emacs use with skill. In particular, he says that he’s inclined to presume presentations using Emacs are representative of a skilled user, whereas a presentation using VS Code is not. … Continue reading →

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