Category Archives: General

Emacs Rocks! #16

Posted on 2017-09-17 by jcs

After 3 years, Magnar Sveen has smiled upon us with a new episode of Emacs Rocks! For newcomers, Emacs Rocks! episodes are short videos of 2 or 3 minutes that explore some aspect of working with Emacs. If you haven’t … Continue reading →

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The ed Editor

Posted on 2017-09-16 by jcs

If you’re a Vim or Emacs user, you’ve seen a lot of jokes like this one from XKCD: They usually end the chain with cat but sometimes, like the above, they go all the way to butterflies. All that’s good … Continue reading →

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A Double Helping of Schadenfreude

Posted on 2017-09-15 by jcs

Can’t. Stop. Laughing. I especially like the part about hurting consumers. After years of giving users the middle finger, the advertising industry starts whining the second someone makes it harder for them to track us and snoop on our online … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Cloud Service

Posted on 2017-09-14 by jcs

Next step: #emacs as a service in the cloud — ▶️️ (@davidradkowski) September 10, 2017 Yeah, this is probably a joke but if there is one thing I don’t want from Emacs, this is it.

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Emacs 25.3

Posted on 2017-09-13 by jcs

Jeez! A guy can’t be away from the Internet for a couple of days without everything changing. One of those changes is that a new version of Emacs, version 25.3, has been released. This is an emergency release to fix … Continue reading →

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Irma After Action Report

Posted on 2017-09-12 by jcs

I’m writing this Monday night after Irma came visiting. First off, thanks to the many people who wrote—either directly or through Disqus—to send their well wishes. I appreciate your concern and good thoughts. At the last moment, Irma shifted east … Continue reading →

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Org Mind Map

Posted on 2017-09-10 by jcs

I don’t use mind mapping so I never paid much attention to org-mind-map, thinking it was a way of organizing mind maps. It is that, I suppose, but what makes it interesting to me is that it’s a handy way … Continue reading →

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Jerry Pournelle, RIP

Posted on 2017-09-09 by jcs

Jerry Pournelle, a well known Science Fiction writer and computer columnist died yesterday. For years, Pournelle wrote the popular Chaos Manor column for BYTE. The column considered computer software and hardware from the users’ perspective. I’ve long been a fan … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Dennis Ritchie

Posted on 2017-09-09 by jcs

Six years ago, one of my heroes, Dennis Ritchie, died. No one here needs to be told who dmr was or what he did. He’s no longer with us but it’s worth remembering his birthday and sparing a few minutes … Continue reading →

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Reading EPUBs in Emacs

Posted on 2017-09-07 by jcs

In yet another win for moving your digital life into Emacs, wasamasa has released nov.el, a package for reading EPUBs in Emacs. Until now, I have always opted to get digital content as PDFs rather than EPUBs or MOBIs because … Continue reading →

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