Category Archives: General

Exporting Only the Contents of An Org Subtree

Posted on 2019-09-15 by jcs

Here’s a short Org-mode tip that, although quite old, I just learned about. Suppose you want to export an Org subtree but you want only the contents and not the header. This emacs-reddit question, which alerted me to the solution, … Continue reading →

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Bad Password Policies

Posted on 2019-09-14 by jcs

It seems like I’ve been shouting into the wind forever about password policies and it hasn’t made a bit of difference. There’s probably little anyone can do about users choosing really dumb passwords—like password or 123456 and so forth—but you’d … Continue reading →

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Dumb-jump 0.5.3

Posted on 2019-09-13 by jcs

Back in 2017, I started using dumb-jump after seeing Mike Zamansky’s video demonstrating it. As I said at the time, it really hit the sweet spot for me. I have tried many times over my career to warm up to … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Talks About Its Plans for DoH

Posted on 2019-09-12 by jcs

You may recall that back in July I wrote about Google’s and Mozilla’s plans for DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and the furor it caused among the nannies in the UK who resented having their ability to spy on their users … Continue reading →

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Saving the Planet With Smartphones

Posted on 2019-09-11 by jcs

When the New Luddites aren’t hectoring us about our debilitating addiction to our phones, the loss of our ability to read maps or do arithmetic, or the extreme disservice we’re doing to our children by allowing them to use smartphones, … Continue reading →

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Using R With Emacs and ESS

Posted on 2019-09-10 by jcs

With the rise of big data, the R programming language has become one of the most popular languages. Indeed, the IEEE has it rated as number 5 in 2019. Probably the most popular environment for R is RStudio, an IDE … Continue reading →

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Opening Images in Emacs

Posted on 2019-09-09 by jcs

These tweets: Expected outcome #Emacs. pic.twitter.com/fHh97DVcda — Antti Tyrväinen (@antti_engineer) September 8, 2019 reminded me that not everyone is aware that you can open image files in Emacs so I thought I’d share the knowledge. If you like, it’s easy … Continue reading →

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Curl Recipes

Posted on 2019-09-08 by jcs

There’s not much going on today so I thought I’d share this small list of Curl recipes that I recently stumbled on. If you’re like me, your first reaction when facing a problem like those on this list is to … Continue reading →

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Apple Secrecy and the Tech Press

Posted on 2019-09-07 by jcs

It’s no secret among those who have been reading this blog for a while that Irreal doesn’t hold journalists in high regard. Those that aren’t explicitly corrupt are mostly lazy and ignorant (yes, yes, of course there are exceptions). I … Continue reading →

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Emacs or Vi

Posted on 2019-09-06 by jcs

It’s Friday so it’s time for a little red meat. I usually wouldn’t release another video so soon, but I wanted to finally settle this important question in honor of Labor Day. (Plus, it’s only a minute or so long.) … Continue reading →

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