Category Archives: General

The Data Gatherers Are Out Of Control

Posted on 2019-06-16 by jcs

The Spanish Soccer League, La Liga, licenses the right to display its games. It’s very aggressive about enforcing that licensing especially in venues like bars where fans naturally gather to watch the games. The situation is much different here in … Continue reading →

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Notmuch For Email

Posted on 2019-06-15 by jcs

As regular readers know, I am a very happy user of mu/mu4e to handle my email. It lets me handle email completely from within Emacs and it happily lives side-by-side with Apple’s mail app so I can read and write … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.2.90

Posted on 2019-06-14 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the first pretest of Emacs 26.3, 26.2.90, is available for download and testing. If you don’t mind living just a little bit on the edge, download and help with the testing. As always, thanks to John, … Continue reading →

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The Government Can’t Protect Your Data Either

Posted on 2019-06-13 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Equifax and First American Financial Corp breaches. I noted that the situation was out of hand and that even the curmudgeons at Irreal were ready to put aside their distaste for … Continue reading →

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Org 9.2.4 Is Released

Posted on 2019-06-12 by jcs

Bastien Guerry tweets that Org-mode has a new release. #emacs #orgmode 9.2.4, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) June 11, 2019 As usual, thanks to Bastien, Nicolas, and the others for all the work they do … Continue reading →

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The Portable Operating System

Posted on 2019-06-11 by jcs

Unix is often credited with being the first portable operating system because it was written in a higher level language and could relatively easily be ported to new machines. That portability changed everything. But this post isn’t about Unix; it’s … Continue reading →

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Unicode Escape Sequences in Emacs Strings

Posted on 2019-06-10 by jcs

Xah Lee recently tweeted out a reference to one of his old pages on Emacs Lisp. This one considers specifying Unicode escape sequences in Emacs strings. It’s a handy guide and well worth giving a look. Doubtless, you could find … Continue reading →

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Why Emacs

Posted on 2019-06-09 by jcs

Saurabh Kukade is planning a series on configuring Emacs. His introductory post discusses why he thinks Emacs is so cool. Most bloggers who write about Emacs end up posting something like that, of course, but I always enjoy reading why … Continue reading →

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The Unpickable Lock

Posted on 2019-06-08 by jcs

It used to be, and probably still is, a rite of passage for young hackers to learn how to pick locks. I believe this started at MIT where the idea of locked /anything/—software, doors, …—was an anathema, and challenge, to … Continue reading →

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Correcting Org Tags

Posted on 2019-06-07 by jcs

A couple of days ago, I was adding some item to my journal—which is really my engineering note book—and when my capture template prompted me for a tag and I started to type it in, I noticed that in the … Continue reading →

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