Category Archives: General

🥩 Red Meat Friday: Can We Stop Acting Like 5 Year Olds

Posted on 2025-09-05 by jcs

I recently saw this Tweet by John Carmack about developing new operating systems. Carmack is of the opinion that it’s rarely justifiable and when it is, “[Y]ou practically need an isolated monastic order of computer engineers.” I don’t have an … Continue reading →

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The McPhee Method

Posted on 2025-09-04 by jcs

Surprisingly, one of Irreal’s most popular posts was about writing. Even more surprising, the post was about what dictionary you should be using when writing. That article, Draft #4, is from 10 years ago and discusses why you are probably … Continue reading →

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Diverted Mode

Posted on 2025-09-03 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez and James Dyer have a problem. The same problem. They sometimes need to reindent a region or the entire buffer. That’s easy enough to do. You can select the entire buffer with Ctrl+x h or select the region … Continue reading →

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One Last Elevator Pitch

Posted on 2025-09-02 by jcs

I’m writing this on September 1 so there’s a new theme for the Emacs Carnival. Nonetheless, one final Elevator Pitch showed up in my feed and it seemed worthy of a few words. The post is from Philip Kaluđerčić and … Continue reading →

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A Quick Debugging Tip

Posted on 2025-09-01 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez had a problem. The SVG header in the buffer of one of his apps was occasionally disappearing. The problem was that he didn’t know where to look for the bug. Then it occurred to him that he could … Continue reading →

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Ibuffer Configuration

Posted on 2025-08-31 by jcs

The Emacs Cat has an informative post on his Ibuffer Configuration. Although it’s built in, ibuffer isn’t enabled by default so you have to load it with require, use-package, or whatever you use for such things. It’s a nice replacement … Continue reading →

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Writing Instruction Manuals In Org Mode

Posted on 2025-08-30 by jcs

JTR over at The Art Of Not Asking Why has an interesting post on how how he writes instruction manuals. The post was in response to a question from someone on Reddit. As for Org Mode itself, he doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Disqus Problem Update

Posted on 2025-08-29 by jcs

I think I’ve resolved the Disqus problem. At least I was able to respond to an Irreal comment. If things are indeed resolved, I should be able to respond to your comments as usual.

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Hell On Earth

Posted on 2025-08-29 by jcs

Did you ever wonder what Hell on earth would look like? Here you go. Imagine having to rely on Windows XP, Windows 3.11, or even MS-DOS to get your daily work done. Imagine waiting 15 minutes for your computer to … Continue reading →

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Fraga: Elevator Pitch

Posted on 2025-08-28 by jcs

As you can probably tell, I’ve become obsessed with Emacs Elevator Pitch posts. I find them particularly instructive because they require the writer to boil down what they like about Emacs to its essence. The latest offering is from Eric … Continue reading →

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