Category Archives: General

USB versus the U.S. Government

Posted on 2016-03-25 by jcs

True… pic.twitter.com/eM0LTPGTUT — Mikko Hypponen (@mikko) January 25, 2016

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The Reality of Key Escrow

Posted on 2016-03-24 by jcs

Back in 2000 PGP, a mature and capable company with significant experience in encryption and security, decided that it would be a good idea to provide key escrow for its corporate users. August 2000: a bug in PGP Corp's corporate … Continue reading →

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Using reveal.js with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-03-23 by jcs

For those looking for a way to produce slides with Emacs and Org mode, there are two popular options: Beamer and reveal.js. Each solution has its partisans but if you’re in the reveal.js camp, Yujie Wen has an org-reveal package … Continue reading →

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Dotfile Management

Posted on 2016-03-22 by jcs

Haoyang Xu has a really nice idea for managing your dotfiles. The idea is a generalization of using Org mode to configure Emacs, a strategy that many people have written about (here’s a pointer to a video about it). Using … Continue reading →

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The FBI Begs Off

Posted on 2016-03-21 by jcs

This is what you do when you think you’re going to lose and set the wrong precedent.

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Ensime Hacks

Posted on 2016-03-21 by jcs

Over at Ensime they have a page dedicated to Emacs Hacks. Although it’s written from the point of view of a Scala developer, the hacks are useful for any Emacs user. There three sections, one each for General hacks Scala … Continue reading →

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Matt Blaze on Adtech

Posted on 2016-03-20 by jcs

Countless pixels have died in the battle over adtech. I’ve long held the view that I’m happy to view the ads but I object strongly to being tracked and having arbitrary scripts run on my machine. Some time ago, I … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming With Org Babel

Posted on 2016-03-19 by jcs

Howard Abrams recently gave a talk at the PDX Emacs Hangout in Portland. So far, there is no video of the talk but Abrams did write up his notes1. The talk was intended to be a workshop so you should … Continue reading →

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Magit Video on Rebasing

Posted on 2016-03-18 by jcs

Charl Botha has posted an excellent video on advanced rebasing with Magit. It serves as a great followup to Howard Abrams’ Magit tutorial video. Abrams covered rebasing too but Botha shows how to perform more complicated tasks. First he shows … Continue reading →

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Org Mode and Software Engineering

Posted on 2016-03-17 by jcs

Rohan Kshirsagar has a nice post on integrating Emacs Org Mode into the software engineering process. That’s a big subject area, of course, but Kshirsagar focuses on using Org to take notes as things occur to you and perhaps turn … Continue reading →

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