Category Archives: General

The Year of RSS

Posted on 2022-12-24 by jcs

Irreal has considered RSS many times, especially since Google’s liquidation of RSS reader, There’s too many posts to cite here; just do a search for “RSS” on the Irreal site to see them. If you aren’t a silly person, you … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: You Can’t Code If…

Posted on 2022-12-23 by jcs

Here’s some red meat that’s sure to exercise more than a few people: Some #IDE have nice features. But if you can’t create a non-trivial software project in #vim (or whatever capable text editor you prefer, might even be *shudder* … Continue reading →

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Exporting To Markdown

Posted on 2022-12-22 by jcs

There’s a disadvantaged group of people in our industry that use Markdown to prepare their text for output to, say, PDF or HTML. I call these folks disadvantaged because Markdown, although fine for preparing simple documents for publication, has some … Continue reading →

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Peer Review

Posted on 2022-12-21 by jcs

Adam Mastroianni has a thoughtful and interesting article on peer review. The idea of having outside “experts” evaluate a prospective paper before it’s published in a journal seems to be obviously the right thing and something that has been the … Continue reading →

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Mbork on New Emacs 29 Features

Posted on 2022-12-20 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post about some of the things he likes about Emacs 29. Irreal has posted a couple of articles on Emacs 29 and what is coming but Borkowski’s post is different in that he just … Continue reading →

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Building An Exercise Table From a Journal

Posted on 2022-12-19 by jcs

Like many people, Simon Pugnet likes to keep a record of his exercising. His regime includes several types of exercise such as running, sit-ups, and pushups. Also like many of us, he maintains a daily journal so, of course, it … Continue reading →

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John Wiegley on Emacs 29

Posted on 2022-12-18 by jcs

Here’s another nice video from the EmacsConf 2022 conference. It’s John Wiegley on what’s coming in Emacs 29. As Wiegley says, it’s going to be a significant release with lots of new features. Here’s a list (cut from the video’s … Continue reading →

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Writing With Org Mode

Posted on 2022-12-17 by jcs

Chris Mariana has an interesting video on how to prevent losing files when writing in Org mode. It’s a useful post but not really enough to write about. The TL;DR is that it explains how to locate files that were … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Where Your Editor Runs…

Posted on 2022-12-16 by jcs

…and what it says about you. #Emacs pic.twitter.com/L63frIZxOA — William Méndez (@MrWMENDEZ) December 12, 2022 I’m sure we Emacers can all agree on the conclusion that “We are not the same.”

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Academic Writing in Emacs

Posted on 2022-12-15 by jcs

I recently came across this post by Chung-hong Chan on academic writing in Emacs that really annoyed me. It’s not anything that Chan said that put my back up but rather a common supposition that he mentioned that I and … Continue reading →

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