Author Archives: jcs

Let Them Eat Cake

Posted on 2023-03-28 by jcs

Grrr. I had my blood pressure taken today and it was perfectly normal. Then I read this Slate article and it shot through the roof. Or so I imagine. I know for sure that it infuriated me. In the article, … Continue reading →

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Eli Zaretskii Wins FSF Award

Posted on 2023-03-27 by jcs

The Free Software Foundation has announced that Eli Zaretskii, the de facto lead Emacs developer, is the winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. It’s well deserved and I offer him my wholehearted congratulations. Zaretskii has provided … Continue reading →

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Adding A Thesaurus To Emacs

Posted on 2023-03-26 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has been doing more writing lately and has felt the need for a thesaurus. I very seldom use a thesaurus for reasons that I’ve written about previously but it’s sometimes convenient to have one. My typical use … Continue reading →

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Emacs and LLMs

Posted on 2023-03-25 by jcs

It seems as if every second technical article or tweet that I read is about Large Language Models (LLMs) and, in particular, the various iterations of ChatGPT. In response to this, there are already several Emacs packages providing an interface … Continue reading →

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Org Novelist

Posted on 2023-03-24 by jcs

As many of you know, I’m fascinated by those who use Emacs for projects that don’t involve science or engineering. One such aspect that I always enjoy reading about is using Emacs for creative writing, by which I mean novels, … Continue reading →

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Curl and Its Developer

Posted on 2023-03-23 by jcs

This is the twentyfifth anniversary of Curl, one of those quiet utilities that everyone uses but that never makes a big splash. Along with wget, Curl is one of the two premier standalone applications for downloading content from the Web. … Continue reading →

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State of Doom Emacs

Posted on 2023-03-22 by jcs

There’s a JUXT Safari video featuring Ellis Kenyo on the state of Doom Emacs. It’s not really an introduction to Doom but, rather, a status report on where Doom is now and what new things are being worked on. I’m … Continue reading →

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Ritchie’s Thesis

Posted on 2023-03-21 by jcs

There’s a substantial body of lore associated with Dennis Ritchie and his work. One of the minor stories involves his PhD or lack of it. The most common story is that Harvard refused to award Ritchie his degree because Ritchie … Continue reading →

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On The Fly Command Repeat

Posted on 2023-03-20 by jcs

As many of you know, I spent many years as a Vi/Vim user. A bit more than 15 years ago, I moved to Emacs, mostly I think, because I was moving a lot of my coding to various Lisps and … Continue reading →

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Web Scraping With Org Mode

Posted on 2023-03-19 by jcs

Beetle_b has an interesting short post, about scraping a Web site, that outlines a technique that may be useful to some Irreal readers. The TL;DR was that he wanted to capture and print the content from a Web page that … Continue reading →

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