Category Archives: General

Is Cursive Virtuous?

Posted on 2017-04-14 by jcs

Irreal has a large corpus on the problems with cursive handwriting (see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) but I haven’t written about it for a while. I was going through my queue of unpublished blog ideas and … Continue reading →

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I Stand Corrected…

Posted on 2017-04-13 by jcs

Last Week I wrote that I’d finally gotten mu4e working and that after I moved to elfeed, I would have everything except browsing and iMessage running under Emacs. I remarked that I didn’t expect to have iMessage or a (full-featured) … Continue reading →

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Fire Adtech

Posted on 2017-04-12 by jcs

Irreal readers who have been around for a while know of my deep and abiding hatred for adtech, a term used here to mean the technology that advertisers use to spy on and track Web users. I’ve written before that … Continue reading →

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Ivy 0.9.0

Posted on 2017-04-11 by jcs

If you’re an Ivy user, you’ll be delighted to know that abo-abo has released the latest version, 0.9.0. Take a look at his blog for an overview of what’s new. If you aren’t using Ivy, you should definitely give it … Continue reading →

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A Better RETURN for Org

Posted on 2017-04-10 by jcs

John Kitchin has an interesting piece of Elisp that helps when you’re writing in structured Org mode. If you’re in a bullet list, for example, you can type Meta+Return (or is it Ctrl+Return? I always get it wrong) at the … Continue reading →

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Publishing a Book with Leanpub and Org Mode

Posted on 2017-04-09 by jcs

Angelo Basile has a nice post on publishing a book with Leanpub and Org Mode. I’ve written about this before when I discussed Lakshmi Narasimhan’s workflow with Leanpub. Narasimhan used Dropbox, which some may find inconvenient so Basile employs an … Continue reading →

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Hacker Archetypes

Posted on 2017-04-08 by jcs

Eric Raymond (ESR) has an interesting post on hacker archetypes. The list grew out of a discussion between ESR and one of his regular readers, Susan Sons. At the moment, they’ve identified 8 archetypes. You’ll want to read his post … Continue reading →

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Mu4e Configuration

Posted on 2017-04-06 by jcs

This post is the latest in my series on installing and configuring mu4e on a Mac and using Apple as a mail provider. As I wrote in my post on mbsync configuration, setting up mu4e is simple by comparison. On … Continue reading →

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Configuring mbsync for Apple Mail

Posted on 2017-04-05 by jcs

As a first step in realizing my goal of running mu4e as my email client, I had to get mbsync running. Mbsync is a process that communicates with one or more IMAP servers to keep your email clients in sync. … Continue reading →

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Summer!

Posted on 2017-04-04 by jcs

As many of you know, the Irreal International Headquarters is in Tampa, Florida. That means that this Kontra tweet resonated: Feeling good about yourself right now? Remember, soon it'll be summer…hot, humid, sticky summer…with mosquitoes. — Kontra (@counternotions) April 2, … Continue reading →

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