Category Archives: General

Emacs Keybindings on MacOS

Posted on 2019-10-05 by jcs

Every three or four years, I run across a tweet or post from someone who’s discovered that the Mac recognizes a few basic Emacs keybindings. Here’s the most recent example. The time before that was about three years ago. It’s … Continue reading →

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Uses This Interview with Chris Wellons

Posted on 2019-10-04 by jcs

Uses This has an interview with Chris Wellons. I’ve written about Wellons many many times and consider him an outstanding engineer. I especially liked his post on Mutable String and Emacs Buffer Passing Style, which explains a method of dealing … Continue reading →

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A Quick Tutorial on Elisp Macros

Posted on 2019-10-03 by jcs

Shane Mulligan has an interesting post in which he gives a short tutorial on Elisp macros. He does that by implementing a macro that accepts a Bash shell command and calls the shell to execute it. That boils down to … Continue reading →

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The Times They Are A-changin’

Posted on 2019-10-02 by jcs

Except for you young guys for whom they’re pretty much the same: “Japan’s sole pager provider will end its services Tuesday, with the device, first introduced in the country half a century ago, made redundant by mobile phones.” (Are we … Continue reading →

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Elisp in Eshell

Posted on 2019-10-01 by jcs

I’m sure everybody reading this knows that you can invoke elisp commands from the eshell command line but if you’re like me you tend to forget it in the heat of the moment. That’s too bad because it’s often possible … Continue reading →

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Dark Mode

Posted on 2019-09-30 by jcs

Back in June, I wrote about the light-mode/dark-mode controversy and the article by Adam Engst claiming—and citing substantiating research—that all the claims of dark mode’s superiority are nonsense and, in fact, the opposite of the truth. In particular, dark mode … Continue reading →

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Living Without a Wallet

Posted on 2019-09-29 by jcs

In my Almost There post, I wrote that my everyday carry was down to just 3 items: My iPhone My house (and possibly) car keys My wallet and that I was trying to get it down to just my phone. … Continue reading →

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You Are Not the User

Posted on 2019-09-28 by jcs

I stumbled upon a very interesting article from 2016 entitled The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think. The real point of the article, though, is “You are not the user.” Whatever you think about your users’ assumptions … Continue reading →

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The Using Org Mode Features Posts

Posted on 2019-09-27 by jcs

My post on Wednesday about Karl Voit’s explanation of Org-mode tags and categories is actually part of a series. Voit decided to to curate his posts on how he uses Org-mode into a series he calls “Using Org Mode Features” … Continue reading →

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Hacker Laws

Posted on 2019-09-26 by jcs

Here’s a quickie that I stumbled on the other day. Dave Kerr has a nice GitHub repository that’s gathered a collection of “laws” and aphorisms that all Geeks know and love. He calls it hacker-laws. Many of the laws, such … Continue reading →

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