Category Archives: General

Giving RSI The Thumb

Posted on 2026-05-23 by jcs

Emacs’ shortcuts and their role in RSI are a staple of Emacs commentary. Everyone, it seems, has their own methods for relieving stress on their hands as they use Emacs. Prot, for example, thinks that one-shot modifiers are the answer. … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Microsoft Backdoor?

Posted on 2026-05-22 by jcs

Our younger colleagues can be forgiven for viewing Microsoft as a benign company. Those of us who have been around for a while remember the old days and we haven’t forgotten or forgiven. Despite their efforts to appear a friendly … Continue reading →

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Annotate In Place

Posted on 2026-05-21 by jcs

Charlie Holland has a very interesting post about annotation in place. The idea is to take notes on digital content the same way you would if your were marking up a book or a physical paper. The important thing is … Continue reading →

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EWW As A Way To Evade Paywalls

Posted on 2026-05-20 by jcs

In my post on Omar Antolín Camarena’s May Emacs Carnival contribution explaining his reasons for using EWW as his default browser, I mentioned that Camarena said that one of the benefits of EWW not supporting JavaScript is that JavaScript is … Continue reading →

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Marking Recently Modified Files In Dired

Posted on 2026-05-19 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) really likes all the ways you can mark files in Dired but noticed that an easy way to mark recently modified files was missing. He knows quite a bit about writing Elisp so it was an easy … Continue reading →

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Digital Life Update (2026)

Posted on 2026-05-18 by jcs

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you on my quest for a digital life. For those who came in late, my immediate goal is to be able to leave the house carrying nothing but my iPhone. In my last … Continue reading →

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May I Recommend: EWW

Posted on 2026-05-17 by jcs

I see a lot of blog posts recommending EWW. Sometimes I even write about them. The common theme is something along the lines of, “No, you can’t really replace a full-fledged browser with EWW but you can do a lot … Continue reading →

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Emacs As An Effortless Bloom

Posted on 2026-05-16 by jcs

Charlie Holland has an interesting contribution to May’s Emacs Carnival, which this month is on the topic “If I may recommend…” His notion is that Emacs is an effortless bloom. The “effortless” part is because Emacs—contra conventional wisdom—is easy to … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Goodhart’s Law At Amazon

Posted on 2026-05-15 by jcs

You would think that by now every organization on earth would have heard of Goodhart’s law. The law can be briefly stated as, “When a measure is used as a target, it ceases to be a measure.” We see the … Continue reading →

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Emacs And The Bazaar/Git Saga

Posted on 2026-05-14 by jcs

Thanos Apollo has an interesting post about an almost forgotten Emacs battle: the choice between Bazaar and Git as the new version control system for Emacs. Twenty years ago, Emacs was still using CVS, a venerable RCS that was well … Continue reading →

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