Category Archives: General

LaTeX vs. Word Redux

Posted on 2020-12-07 by jcs

Hey, remember that silly opinion piece masquerading as a scientific paper by Knauff and Nejasmic back in 2014? It claimed that Word was much more efficient than LaTeX for writing papers. I wrote about it more than once (1, 2, … Continue reading →

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Phone Notifications When a Command Completes

Posted on 2020-12-06 by jcs

Before we get to today’s topic, I want to point you to Mike Zamansky’s latest video on using Clojure for Advent of Code problems. Emacs appears, of course, although it’s not really the point of the video. Even so, I … Continue reading →

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Zamansky: More Advent of Code and Clojure

Posted on 2020-12-05 by jcs

If you enjoyed yesterday’s post on Mike Zamansky’s use of Clojure and Cider to solve an Advent of Code problem, he has a couple more offerings that you’ll probably like too. Like his last video, these two consider a current … Continue reading →

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Zamansky on Clojure and Cider

Posted on 2020-12-04 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up. It’s not quite one of his Using Emacs Series videos but he says it could be as it discusses the Emacs Cider infrastructure. It’s ostensibly about day 3 of this year’s Advent of Code, … Continue reading →

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Repeating Commands in Emacs

Posted on 2020-12-03 by jcs

One of the things that Vi/Vim does much better than Emacs is repeat commands. Pressing . in Vim repeats the last native command. It simple and easy to use and when I was a Vim user, I did, in fact, … Continue reading →

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The DEA Supplies Another Example

Posted on 2020-12-02 by jcs

Speaking of governments supplying examples of the Iron Law of Data Collection, one of the US Government’s most notorious abusers of data collection and constitutional protections whose TLA is not NSA, has stepped up to provide yet another example. The … Continue reading →

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The Iron Law and Abuse

Posted on 2020-12-01 by jcs

I’ve written many times about the iron law of data collection. Briefly, it’s the notion that whenever data is collected No matter the original rationale given for its collection, new uses will be found for the data. The data will … Continue reading →

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Cloning a Repository

Posted on 2020-11-29 by jcs

My day has been consumed by yak shaving so today’s offering is just a quickie pointing you to a very interesting post from Álvaro Ramírez. In a situation familiar to all of us, Ramírez noticed that every time he wanted … Continue reading →

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Managing Servers with Org

Posted on 2020-11-28 by jcs

Fragbot has an interesting reddit post talking about using Emacs as a standalone infrastructure that can be shared by others. The idea is that you integrate Emacs into a workflow for use by folks who aren’t normally Emacs users. He … Continue reading →

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Mastering Emacs Update

Posted on 2020-11-27 by jcs

Mickey Petersen’s excellent Mastering Emacs has a new update covering Emacs 26 & 27. If you already have a copy of Mastering Emacs, you’ve probably received an email telling you how to get the update (for free). If you don’t … Continue reading →

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