Author Archives: jcs

Ben Simon has a post that hits two of my blogging hobby horses at once. The post is about his recent adoption of define-word and powerthesaurus. The first way it resonates with me is that Simon, like me, finally got … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about Emacs and how it fits into the Unix Philosophy. Those posts all focused on the Unix ideal of A program should do one thing and do it well. The argument is to consider the one thing … Continue reading →

In almost every case, proportional fonts are superior. They look better and they’re easier to read. One obvious exception is when programming but, even there, not everyone agrees. Still, most programmers are pretty firm in their preference for monospaced fonts … Continue reading →

Here’s a small problem to think about: how many working days are there in this month or, more generally, between any two dates? “Working days” means Monday through Friday minus holidays. It’s not a hard problem but think how you … Continue reading →

Álvaro Ramírez continues to roll out new examples of applications for his dwim-shell-command framework. His latest offering is three functions that, given a photo: Display the EXIF information Displays the location of where the photo was taken in the minibuffer … Continue reading →