Category Archives: General

Emacs As A Browser

Posted on 2026-04-23 by jcs

As I’ve written many times, only my browner keeps me from doing almost everything in Emacs. Sure, there are some other apps that can’t be brought under the Emacs umbrella, but in many cases, emacs-everywhere allows me to handle text … Continue reading →

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Orgy

Posted on 2026-04-22 by jcs

Irreal, in both its incarnations, has always used a dynamic Web site: first on Blogger and now on WordPress. I like them both. They’re easy to use and, really, perfect for non-technical people who want to blog. At this point, … Continue reading →

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Changing Of The Guard

Posted on 2026-04-21 by jcs

The much predicted succession of Apple’s top management is underway. In a community letter from Tim Cook, Cook announced that he is transitioning to Apple’s executive chairman and as long expected, John Ternus, the current Senior Vice President of Engineering, … Continue reading →

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What Not Using M-dashes Really Means

Posted on 2026-04-20 by jcs

A year ago, I learned from my friend Watts Martin that according to LinkedIn know nothings influencers, the use of em-dashes is a sure sign of AI generated text. Real people, they said, use hyphens so whenever you see an … Continue reading →

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Artemis II’s Fault Tolerant Computer

Posted on 2026-04-19 by jcs

The other day, I wrote about the amazing engineering behind Voyager 1. Space is a harsh environment and equipment that would be perfectly fine here on Earth would not survive in space. Artemis II, which carried the crew farther away … Continue reading →

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A Short Report On Help Focus

Posted on 2026-04-18 by jcs

Earlier this week I wrote about Bozhidar Batsov’s post on short Emacs configuration hacks. As I mentioned then, my favorite was a simple configuration variable that causes the Help buffer to get focus when you open it. It’s easy to … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Writing Telephone Numbers

Posted on 2026-04-17 by jcs

I don’t know why this is a Red Meat Friday item but, apparently, it is. Back in 2024, the AP Stylebook changed its specification for the formatting of telephone numbers. From now on the telephone number that used to be … Continue reading →

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LaTeX Preview In Emacs

Posted on 2026-04-16 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, _DonK4rma shows an example of his mathematical note taking in Emacs. It’s a nice example of how flexible Org mode is even for writing text with heavy mathematical content but probably not too interesting to … Continue reading →

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Switching Between Dired Windows With TAB

Posted on 2026-04-15 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a very nice little post on using Tab with Dired. By default, Tab isn’t defined in Dired but mbork suggests an excellent use for it and provides the code to implement his … Continue reading →

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Alfred Snippets

Posted on 2026-04-14 by jcs

Today while I was going through my feed, I saw this this post from macosxguru over at Bicycle For Your Mind. It’s about his system for using snippets on his system. The TL;DR is that he has settled on Typinator … Continue reading →

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