Category Archives: General

Cover Your Tracks

Posted on 2020-11-26 by jcs

The EFF has a new version of their Panopticlick browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool. It’s now called Cover Your Tracks. The tool doesn’t prevent the malevolent adtech industry from tracking you, it’s merely a testing tool to estimate how … Continue reading →

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Emacs in the Terminal

Posted on 2020-11-25 by jcs

Wanderson Ferreira (Bartuka) has a project where the code can’t leave a remote machine at the other end of a slow connection. He’s an Emacser but GUI Emacs is too slow to be practical so he moved to terminal Emacs … Continue reading →

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Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2020-11-24 by jcs

Back in February at FOSDEM 20, Tom Tromey gave a very interesting talk of how he believes the core of Emacs should evolve. He considers most of the current proposals such as Rmacs, Guile Emacs, and rewriting the core in … Continue reading →

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The Worst Passwords of 2020

Posted on 2020-11-23 by jcs

We haven’t done this for a while but it’s time, once more, for a survey of the year’s worst passwords. Sadly, the only real question is, as usual, whether 123456 or password heads the list. This time password has inexplicably … Continue reading →

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A Free Blog with Org and GitLab

Posted on 2020-11-22 by jcs

Ravi Sagar has an interesting video that shows you how to publish a free blog to GitLab using Org-mode. The result is a static Web site, of course, and Sagar’s example is very simple but you can use CSS to … Continue reading →

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Coding Fonts

Posted on 2020-11-21 by jcs

I like looking at programmers’ fonts. Every time I see one announced or mentioned that I didn’t know about, I have to take a look. It’s rather odd, then, that I’ve been using the Inconsolata font since before I became … Continue reading →

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A Nineteenth Century Emacs

Posted on 2020-11-20 by jcs

One of the enduring memes in Emacsland is the picture of a huge pipe organ console labeled, “I finally got my Emacs set up the way I like it” or something similar. It keeps reappearing as n00bs discover it and … Continue reading →

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Sudo by Touch ID on Macs

Posted on 2020-11-19 by jcs

This post is just a quickie for those of you using a Mac with Touch ID. My latest MacBook Pro has Touch ID and I was surprised at how much I like and use it. It’s especially handy for 1Passowrd … Continue reading →

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Batteries Included

Posted on 2020-11-18 by jcs

One of the frequent complaints you hear about Emacs—generally from people who don’t know what they’re talking about—is that it’s unusable out of the box. I know that’s not true because when I started using Emacs about 13 years ago … Continue reading →

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Leanpub Publishing with Emacs

Posted on 2020-11-17 by jcs

I’ve written about publishing with Leanpub before. They have a very nice workflow that allows an author to upload and publish a book with minimum friction. You can learn some of the details here. Four and a half years after … Continue reading →

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