Category Archives: General

RMS on Data Collection

Posted on 2018-04-19 by jcs

RMS has an article in the Guardian that discusses the safety of your on-line data. With the recent exposure of Facebook surveillance practices and their consequences, reporters have been asking him if he thinks it could be a turning point … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Hugo and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-18 by jcs

Over at ZCL.SPACE there’s an informative post about blogging with Hugo and Org mode. The post serves as a reasonable go-by for setting up and using Hugo for an attractive, static blog. Although Hugo now supports Org markup natively, the … Continue reading →

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The Job from Hell

Posted on 2018-04-17 by jcs

Imagine it’s Friday afternoon and you’re sitting in the local bar with a bunch of other developers bitching about how your company and its management is the worst ever. Then the guy from Project Failures stands up and says, “Hold … Continue reading →

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<t> Is Undefined

Posted on 2018-04-16 by jcs

Is anyone else seeing the error message <t> is undefined when using Emacs? Occasionally Emacs will respond to a keypress with that error in the echo area and Messages buffer. The key is otherwise discarded but pressing it again will … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1 RC-1

Posted on 2018-04-13 by jcs

I just installed Emacs 26.1 RC-1 and am using it as my production Emacs. Well, actually I installed it last night but I wrote this last night so, “I just installed it” as I’m writing this. It’s astounding how easy … Continue reading →

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Mike Zamansky

Posted on 2018-04-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Mike Zamansky and his Using Emacs Series of videos. If you’ve watched those videos carefully or follow his blog, you know he’s a professor at Hunter College’s School of Education where … Continue reading →

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Elisp Slime Nav

Posted on 2018-04-11 by jcs

A few months ago, I stumbled across elisp-slime-nav and decided to try it out. For some reason—lost to the mists of time—I didn’t write about it at then. That’s too bad because it’s a really useful package that anyone who … Continue reading →

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Facebook and Products

Posted on 2018-04-10 by jcs

If you’re still on Facebook, this is for you.

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Magit Interface Walkthrough

Posted on 2018-04-09 by jcs

Jonas Bernoulli, the maintainer of Magit, has a nice post entitled A walk through the Magit interface. It discusses the most-used Magit features and how to access them through Magit’s interface. All that information is in the documentation, of course, … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 47: Magit

Posted on 2018-04-08 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has added another great video to his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about Magit. Regular watchers of his videos have been agitating for some time for Zamansky to do a video on Magit but he resisted on … Continue reading →

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