Category Archives: General

Fifteen Days with Dired

Posted on 2021-04-22 by jcs

Ramit Mittal is a new Spacemacs user who decided that for 15 days he would use Dired for all his file operations. That’s not hard to do. I don’t always use Dired but it’s usually easier than bringing up or … Continue reading →

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Law Enforcement Pirates

Posted on 2021-04-21 by jcs

If you’re an American, the government can’t take your stuff without a legal finding of wrongdoing on your part. That’s what most Americans believe but they’re wrong. The government can, and does, confiscate citizens’ property without legal proceedings or even … Continue reading →

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Switching to Emacs

Posted on 2021-04-20 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has an interesting video that boils down to a lecture on the morality of free software in general and Emacs in particular. He frames the lecture in terms of his journey from a complete computer neophyte to the … Continue reading →

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Useful Emacs and Org-mode Features

Posted on 2021-04-19 by jcs

Karl Voit gave an excellent talk at Grazer Linuxtage 2021 on some Org Mode features that you may not know. The talk also covered some Emacs features that he uses to enhance his workflow. He has an outline of the … Continue reading →

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Writing Technical Documents with Org Mode

Posted on 2021-04-18 by jcs

alpha2phi has a nice post on writing documentation with Emacs and Org-mode. The post is reminiscent of Mike Hamrick’s video on keeping technical documents consistent and uses some of the same techniques. Alpha2phi starts with importing Fabrice Niessen’s excellent ReadTheOrg … Continue reading →

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Walmart and Apple Pay: What COVID-19 Taught Me

Posted on 2021-04-17 by jcs

Everyday, I check the status of two items: Has the State of Florida finally rolled out their promised digital driver license program? Has Walmart finally accepted the inevitable and started accepting Apple Pay? So far, no joy but the two … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Journalists (Again)

Posted on 2021-04-16 by jcs

Okay, one more swipe at journalists and then Red Meat Friday will move on. Unless, of course, the Minions force my hand. From time to time I’ve had some harsh words about the moral and work ethic failings of journalists … Continue reading →

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Reasons for Clojure

Posted on 2021-04-15 by jcs

Irreal regulars know that I’ve been exceedingly wishy-washy about learning Clojure. Every time I see a video from Zamansky or someone else using it, I get excited about learning and trying it out. Other times, I get hung up on … Continue reading →

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Emacs Diary and Calendar

Posted on 2021-04-14 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted another of his excellent videos on Emacs. This time it’s about the Emacs Diary and Calendar operations and how they work together. It turns out that the diary and the calendar are tightly integrated and work … Continue reading →

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Deactivate Mark

Posted on 2021-04-13 by jcs

If you’re like me, you probably don’t think very much about activating and deactivating the mark. We know it gets set when we do a large movement or when we set it manually with Ctrl+Space. We know that the current … Continue reading →

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