Category Archives: General

Mickey on Native Compilation

Posted on 2021-04-12 by jcs

As a nice coda to Saturday’s post on native compilation, the incomparable Mickey has his own post on native compilation. As most Emacers know, Mickey is an Emacs expert and his opinions on Emacs matters are always worth paying attention … Continue reading →

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Name & Shame: Procter & Gamble

Posted on 2021-04-11 by jcs

The other day, I saw this disturbing post on Daring Fireball. The TL;DR is that Procter & Gamble (P&G) has been working with several Chinese trade and advertising groups to develop and test a way of bypassing Apple’s upcoming iOS … Continue reading →

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Native Compilation: Ready to Merge

Posted on 2021-04-10 by jcs

Eli Zaretskii has announced that he expects to merge the new native compilation code into the Master branch next week. This is a significant milestone for a really important feature. Most of the comments were along the lines of “I’ve … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Journalism

Posted on 2021-04-09 by jcs

You guys might think I’m hard on journalists but here’s how an expert does it: ‘Journalism’ today is basically what happens when you take science, and you subtract – training – scholarship – theory – data – peer review – … Continue reading →

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Running a Shell Command from Emacs

Posted on 2021-04-08 by jcs

Over at Emacs Redux, Bozhidar Batsov has a short post on using Meta+! to run a shell command from the minibuffer. The output can go to various places—see Batsov’s post for the details—but usually what you want is to specify … Continue reading →

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Justice!

Posted on 2021-04-06 by jcs

This wants to be a Red Meat Friday item but it’s not Friday and there’s not really any red meat since everyone—but Zuckerberg, perhaps—is totally onboard with this. So no red meat but all the schadenfreude you can eat. Of … Continue reading →

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The TSA: Keeping Us Safe From Cash

Posted on 2021-04-05 by jcs

One, not so bad, consequence of covid19 is that we haven’t heard much from the TSA and its shenanigans. That doesn’t mean, however, that they haven’t been busy violating people’s rights. You’d think that traveling domestically with cash is legal … Continue reading →

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Reading PDF Files with DocView

Posted on 2021-04-04 by jcs

Emacs-Elements has a nice demonstration on using Emacs’ DocView to read PDF files. One of the nice things about DocView—as opposed to PDF Tools—is that it can read PS, DVI, Djvu, and ODF files as well as PDF files. The … Continue reading →

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An Org Workflow

Posted on 2021-04-03 by jcs

Luca Cambiaghi, a data scientist from Copenhagen, has a post on his Org-mode workflow. He’s got three problems to solve: He doesn’t know when a particular task needs to be worked on. He forgets to check on tasks that need … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: Text Editors in Lord of the Rings

Posted on 2021-04-02 by jcs

If editors were places from Lord of the Rings, what would they be? Kieran Healy has an amusing answer. My only complaint is that Word is not a text editor. Still, its assigned place is apt.

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