Category Archives: General

Makefiles for Elisp

Posted on 2020-01-24 by jcs

Chris Wellons has another great post over at Null Program. This post discusses how he uses makefiles to build his Emacs packages. If you’re like most Elisp programmers, you probably write only small bits of Elisp to add to your … Continue reading →

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Another Victory in the Walletless Crusade

Posted on 2020-01-23 by jcs

As you regular readers know, I’m always in search of ways to minimize the things I have to carry around and, in particular, to avoid carrying a wallet with the cash and credit cards that goes with it. My main … Continue reading →

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Karl Voit on Starting to Use Org-mode

Posted on 2020-01-22 by jcs

Karl Voit has a nice post in his Using Org Mode Features series. It’s advice on how to start using Org-mode. Org-mode is large and complicated and can seem intimidating. That leads many people to start with someone else’s configuration. … Continue reading →

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Digital Inheritance

Posted on 2020-01-21 by jcs

I know all you readers think you’re going to live forever—and if you’re young enough that might even be (approximately) true—or you at least think it’s way too early to be thinking about wills and other such unpleasant matters. Nonetheless, … Continue reading →

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The Ebola Vaccine That Almost Didn’t Happen

Posted on 2020-01-20 by jcs

Unless you follow these things, you might not know that a vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus has been licensed in both Europe and the U.S. The vaccine appears to be highly effective and is a big deal. Although Ebola … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 64: Notmuch Mail Client

Posted on 2020-01-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about the Notmuch email client and how it compares to mu4e. Zamansky uses mu4e for his work email and Gmail for his personal email but decided … Continue reading →

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How Fast Is Ripgrep?

Posted on 2020-01-18 by jcs

Very fast, it turns out. Arne Babenhauserheide has a great twitter thread on how fast ripgrep is: yes, this is “ripgrep is so fast that I can simply grep through 2 million lines of code for each line in this … Continue reading →

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Quitting Google: A Story

Posted on 2020-01-17 by jcs

Regular readers know that I regularly reproach those who depend on Google apps. It’s not that I insist that everybody use open source exclusively—I don’t—but I find it excruciating to read about people committing the only copy their valuable data … Continue reading →

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The Online Shopping Experience

Posted on 2020-01-16 by jcs

I don’t usually indulge myself like this but the following so perfectly captures my experience of dealing with my health insurance provider yesterday that I couldn’t resist. The captcha and the ‘Contact Us’ button are perfect 😂😭 #digitalexperience pic.twitter.com/rlF57ICMjP — … Continue reading →

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Using Org-mode To Capture and Report Git Commits

Posted on 2020-01-15 by jcs

Like most developers, Andrea Richiardi has a certain amount of logging and reporting he has to do to document his work. One such item is a report on the commits he’s made while working on various tickets. He wants to … Continue reading →

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