Category Archives: General

Rich Stevens

Posted on 2022-06-15 by jcs

One of my heroes, perhaps my greatest hero was Rich Stevens. The other day, someone posted a link on reddit to a Salon article about Stevens published a year after his death. It made me remember my huge debt to … Continue reading →

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Elfeed-tube

Posted on 2022-06-14 by jcs

As regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of RSS and of using elfeed to read and curate my feeds. If you’re an Emacs user and not using elfeed, you’re really missing out. It’s the absolute best feed reader I’ve … Continue reading →

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How To Create A Missing Directory

Posted on 2022-06-13 by jcs

If you’ve been around Emacs for a while, you probably know that Emacs has you covered if you call find-file (Ctrl+x Ctrl+f) and specify a path with a missing directory. You simply get asked if you want to create the … Continue reading →

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Spaced Repetition

Posted on 2022-06-12 by jcs

One of the things that I wish I’d known during my school years is the technique of spaced repetition. The TL;DR is that it’s a method for learning and remembering material that’s much more efficient and reliable than other common … Continue reading →

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Apple Passkeys

Posted on 2022-06-11 by jcs

At WWDC, Apple just announced Passkeys, their implementation of the FIDO protocols that aim to replace passwords. In Apple’s case, this capability will be available with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, probably this fall. The other vendors are doubtless planning … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Who’s Next?

Posted on 2022-06-10 by jcs

As most of you have probably heard by now, the Atom editor is being discontinued in December. That’s sad, of course, especially for Atom users but there are some lessons to be drawn. Eric Fraga has the TL;DR: This is … Continue reading →

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Proced

Posted on 2022-06-09 by jcs

Bhaskar Chowdhury has a nice video on using proced in Emacs. He covers many, but not all of the things you can do with it. As Chowdhury says, proced is best thought of as a top substitute built into Emacs. … Continue reading →

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Emacs Buffers

Posted on 2022-06-08 by jcs

Mickey from Mastering Emacs has a post, Why Emacs has Buffers, that considers why Emacs makes the buffer concept one of its signal concepts. After all, he says, the natural construct when a programmer thinks of an editor is the … Continue reading →

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The iOS Builtin Flight App

Posted on 2022-06-07 by jcs

This post is a bit specialized—to iOS—by Irreal standards but it’s so useful to those who have an iPhone that I’m going to write about it anyway. I’m not sure if this is new or has been in iOS for … Continue reading →

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Org 9.5.4

Posted on 2022-06-06 by jcs

Yesterday I saw this tweet: Org Mode is a GNU Emacs major mode for keeping notes, authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and effective plain text system. #Orgmode 9.5.4, … Continue reading →

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