Author Archives: jcs

Playing YouTube Videos in Emacs

Posted on 2022-10-25 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski often watches long YouTube videos (frequently lectures) and sometimes can’t watch the whole thing in a single sitting. A couple of weeks ago, he wrote a post about capturing the elapsed play time where he left off and … Continue reading →

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Undo In Region

Posted on 2022-10-24 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, tms9918 says he sometimes changes a line, make changes in other parts of the file, and then wants to restore that first line. He was asking if there was anyway of doing that. There is, … Continue reading →

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Organizing Your Life With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-10-23 by jcs

Karl Voit has reposted an article from 2018 on using Org-mode to organize your life. Voit, as many of you know, is very interested in personal information managers (PIMs) and curating information for later retrieval. He says that when he … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Generating TOTP Codes

Posted on 2022-10-22 by jcs

Happily for us Emacsers, Mickey has been blogging up a storm on Emacs topics lately. His latest offering is on generating TOPT codes with Emacs. TOPT is “Time-Based One-Time Password”. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it’s the basis … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Copilot and Copyrights

Posted on 2022-10-21 by jcs

Three weeks ago I wrote in Red Meat Friday: VS Code As A Venus Flytrap about Geoffrey Huntley’s post on how VS Code is all part of Microsoft’s plan to destroy open source and pull everyone into software as a … Continue reading →

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The Lisp Community

Posted on 2022-10-20 by jcs

Here’s a charming post on the Lisp community. I like it for a couple of reasons. The first is that Owmagow wasn’t afraid to dig in and figure things out even though he realized there were already libraries available to … Continue reading →

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Is “Software Engineer” A Legal Job Title?

Posted on 2022-10-19 by jcs

If you do software development work, your job title almost certainly is some variation of “software engineer”. It’s a ubiquitous way of describing a developer role. So much so that it hard to see how it could be controversial but … Continue reading →

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The Jargon File

Posted on 2022-10-18 by jcs

Today I got a text from a friend who is not from the Hacker culture. The text described a series of tasks he had just performed that were a canonical example of yak shaving. He didn’t know the term, of … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On A Text Editor

Posted on 2022-10-17 by jcs

Jeremy Friesen has some thoughts on what hopes and expects is his last text editor: Emacs. He’s been using Emacs only since 2020 so he probably can’t yet be described as a journeyman Emacs user but he is an experienced … Continue reading →

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Chrome Incognito Mode

Posted on 2022-10-16 by jcs

Why oh why won’t you listen to me? I keep preaching the gospel but you keep ignoring me. It’s not the end times, exactly, but there is an important point to be made. That point is: STOP USING GOOGLE CHROME … Continue reading →

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