Author Archives: jcs

⋆Scratch⋆ For iOS

Posted on 2023-03-08 by jcs

Alvaro Ramirez has a cute iOS application called ⋆scratch⋆. The idea is that it provides an Emacs-like scratch buffer on your iPhone. If you’re like me, your first reaction is, “why would I want this?” But the use case is … Continue reading →

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ChatGPT From Within Emacs

Posted on 2023-03-07 by jcs

We Emacs maximalists are always on the lookout for tasks that we can integrate into Emacs in our never ending quest to stay in Emacs as much as we can. Vivek Haldar has added another task to the list of … Continue reading →

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EKG Version 0.2 Changes

Posted on 2023-03-06 by jcs

Andrew Hyatt has a new video that describes the changes to EKG version 0.2. I wrote about EKG back in February. The TL;DR is that it’s a note taking app that links notes similar to, say, org-roam but with some … Continue reading →

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Pretty Org Reports

Posted on 2023-03-05 by jcs

Torstein Krause Johansen has a short video up on how he makes his Org reports pretty. It’s really pretty simple and not at all mysterious: he writes his Org as usual but adds a bit of CSS. Of course, that … Continue reading →

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SCO Twenty Years Later

Posted on 2023-03-04 by jcs

It’s hard for those of us who were there to believe but there is a good number of practicing software engineers who not only don’t remember but perhaps weren’t even born at the time of the SCO/IBM lawsuit over Linux. … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Low Contrast Themes

Posted on 2023-03-03 by jcs

The minions, ever vigilant for opportunities to engage in another skirmish in the light vs. dark theme war, brought this to my attention and insisted that I run with it. Maybe it’s time to make another #emacs color scheme. I … Continue reading →

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Introduction to GNU Emacs

Posted on 2023-03-02 by jcs

Keith Waclena has a great Introduction to GNU Emacs. It’s an ongoing project that started back with GNU Emacs 19.29 in 1997 and has been in continual development since. This latest version is for Emacs 28.2. Waclena works for the … Continue reading →

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Jonas Bernoulli Needs Our Support

Posted on 2023-03-01 by jcs

When people talk about the killer apps of Emacs, they always mention two: Org Mode and Magit. They’re both uniquely Emacs apps—even though Org is seeping into other environments—and an essential part of the Emacs experience. For the working developer, … Continue reading →

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Is Remote Working Bad For Developers?

Posted on 2023-02-28 by jcs

We here at Irreal strive for equanimity and maybe even a laid back attitude but sometimes the silliness just gets to be too much to bear. Case in point: Is Remote Working Bad For Developers? I’ve written many times that … Continue reading →

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Debugging With Org-babel

Posted on 2023-02-27 by jcs

Wade Mealing has an interesting article on using org-babel for the analysis of Linux kernel bugs. Mealing is a Red Hat engineer and involved with tracking down problems in the Linux kernel. He has a more-or-less fixed procedure for doing … Continue reading →

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