Category Archives: General

Finally!

Posted on 2017-06-18 by jcs

It appears that at long last even the U.S. Senate is getting tired of the Intelligence Community’s dissembling on the abuse of §702 of the FISA act. They are insisting that they be informed of the number of Americans caught … Continue reading →

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Adding Keymaps to Org Source Blocks

Posted on 2017-06-17 by jcs

If you use Org mode and Babel, you know that by calling org-edit-special (bound to Ctrl+c ’ by default) you’re put in a separate buffer that has the mode of the source block you were working in. That’s really convenient … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 34: ibuffer and emmet

Posted on 2017-06-16 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back with the 34th video in his excellent Using Emacs series. This time he considers ibuffer and emmet. Most of you probably already know about ibuffer. I’ve used it since I started with Emacs and really prefer … Continue reading →

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Using EWW as Your Default Browser (Sometimes)

Posted on 2017-06-15 by jcs

As much as I like to stay in Emacs, most of my browsing is done in Safari. It provides a much better and richer experience than is (currently) possible in Emacs. Still, there are a lot of browsing tasks that … Continue reading →

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How to Read Papers Efficiently

Posted on 2017-06-14 by jcs

If you’re a researcher, or a grad student, or even just a diligent developer, you probably spend a great deal of time reading technical papers. Some of those will be of little or no use, some will be beyond your … Continue reading →

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More on Google’s Ad Blocking

Posted on 2017-06-13 by jcs

When I first wrote about the changes coming to Chrome and Safari in the Adtech arena, I noted that some observers were worried that Google’s changes gave them too much power and could be abused. It turns out that they … Continue reading →

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More on Mu4e

Posted on 2017-06-12 by jcs

I know I’ve written a lot about Emacs and email lately but I can’t help myself—Stop me before I post again!—because there’s so much interesting material. Recently, I saw a pointer to a post from Martin Albrecht on his setup … Continue reading →

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Apple Does it Again

Posted on 2017-06-11 by jcs

In yet another privacy enhancing move, Apple announced that iOS 11 will no longer allow app developers to force always-on location services. If you’re like me, you became aware of this issue when Uber removed the “when App is running” … Continue reading →

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Adtech Followup

Posted on 2017-06-10 by jcs

As a followup to my post the other day on Adtech Progress, here’s some commentary from the EFF on the Google and Apple announcements. The TL;DR is that although the EFF welcomes both initiatives, they regret that Google, unlike Apple, … Continue reading →

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Replacing Scrivener with Emacs

Posted on 2017-06-09 by jcs

If you’re a writer who’s been using Scrivener, here’s a video on replacing Scrivener with Emacs and Org mode. The author is really a Vim guy so he’s using Evil but that’s really just a detail. His configuration as well … Continue reading →

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