Author Archives: jcs

🥩 Red Meat Friday: Chrome Atrocities

Posted on 2023-12-08 by jcs

Metanote: I wasn’t sure if this post really merited being designated a Red Meat Friday item but it is polemical and will doubtless anger some people so I guess it qualifies. As most of you know, we here at Irreal … Continue reading →

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Why NYXT Is Programmed In Lisp

Posted on 2023-12-07 by jcs

NYXT is a browser with a workflow inspired by Emacs and Vim. In particular, it strives to be keyboard driven and use Emacs-like shortcuts to speed and ease navigation. The development team takes this inspiration seriously and uses Common Lisp … Continue reading →

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Sorted File Listings in Denote

Posted on 2023-12-06 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) is continuing to add new features to the upcoming release of Denote. The latest changes are about sorted listings of Denote files. Back in November, I wrote about Prot’s work on another new feature: dynamic blocks. Part … Continue reading →

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Emacs Elements On Bookmarks

Posted on 2023-12-05 by jcs

Emacs Elements has a new video on bookmarks out. I’ve written about bookmarks before—most recently here—but it bears repeating how useful they can be. I don’t have a huge bookmark list but I use those bookmarks several times a day. … Continue reading →

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Reasons To Work From Home

Posted on 2023-12-04 by jcs

There’s been an ocean of words written about why it makes sense for companies to support work from home. Irreal has reported on a lot of it. A bit less has been written about why it makes sense for the … Continue reading →

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Remote Work versus Revenue Growth

Posted on 2023-12-03 by jcs

Forbes has an interesting article that, to mix a metaphor, puts another stake through the heart of the Zombie that is the notion remote work is somehow harmful to productivity and the bottom line. It’s an idea that refuses to … Continue reading →

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Building A Bookmark Launcher

Posted on 2023-12-02 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez has a very nice post on Building your own bookmark launcher. The idea is that you have certain Web sites that you visit all the time and you’d like a quick way of opening them in your browser. … Continue reading →

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More On SQL For Arbitrary Data

Posted on 2023-12-01 by jcs

In response to my recent post on Making Ad Hoc SQL Tables From Org Tables, commenter Fritz Grabo points to another, more general system, for doing the same thing. As Grabo points out, the method depends on the external package … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #15

Posted on 2023-11-30 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his Learning Elisp series. This is (probably) the last video in his emoji replacement project. In the last video, Zamansky showed how to turn his emoji replacement code into a minor mode. … Continue reading →

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Making Ad Hoc SQL Tables From Org Tables

Posted on 2023-11-29 by jcs

This is the coolest thing. Charles Choi—who contributions I’ve written about several times—has a really surprising post on turning Org tables into ad hoc SQL tables. There are a couple of things that make this a worthwhile endeavor: It’s easy … Continue reading →

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