Category Archives: General

Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?

Posted on 2016-03-06 by jcs

No, but don’t let that stop you from asking. FBI v. Encryption hearings tl;dr The ignoranti: Can we have our cake and eat it too? (No.) — Kontra (@counternotions) March 1, 2016

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Rotating an Org Table on Export to PDF

Posted on 2016-03-06 by jcs

This is a note to myself but you may find it useful too. Kara Woo asks how she can arrange to have an Org table rotated on the page when she exports it to PDF: Anyone know if I can … Continue reading →

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Rickrolling the FBI

Posted on 2016-03-05 by jcs

I found this way funnier than I should have. Apple finally complies with the FBI via #reddit pic.twitter.com/HhlDJk7LK0 — Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) February 23, 2016

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How to be Efficient in Emacs

Posted on 2016-03-04 by jcs

Bin Chen has an interesting post on making Emacs use as efficient as possible. The idea is to remap the commands you use the most to easy key sequences. To do that, you need to know what commands you’re using, … Continue reading →

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Filtering the Dired Display

Posted on 2016-03-03 by jcs

Ben Maughan over at Pragmatic Emacs has a nice post on the dired-filter package. The idea is that you can filter the files that will be displayed in your Dired listing. Take a look at his post to see how … Continue reading →

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Journalists and Their Coverage of FBI/Apple

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

This is why my “Note to journalists” in today’s earlier post was necessary: State of tech coverage: published AFTER the FBI Director corrects his earlier lie about not seeking a precedent: pic.twitter.com/mVkXT4P3eL — Kontra (@counternotions) March 2, 2016

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Judge Orenstein Rules

Posted on 2016-03-02 by jcs

By now you will have heard that Federal Magistrate Judge James Orenstein of the Eastern District of New York has ruled in case parallel to the San Bernardino case involving the FBI and Apple. At issue in the San Bernardino … Continue reading →

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Lisp Family Tree

Posted on 2016-03-01 by jcs

Via Jean-Philippe Paradis, a nice chart of the relationships between various Lisps. Hey #lisp, thanks to help from @RainerJoswig and others I've created a graph which illustrates CL implementations :) pic.twitter.com/CKA35vAe5y — Daniel Kochmański (@dk_jackdaniel) February 12, 2016

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Reading Mailing Lists

Posted on 2016-02-29 by jcs

In my never ending quest to move every conceivable task into Emacs, I came across this Emacs Stack Exchange entry on reading mailing list archives with Emacs. That turns out to be pretty easy to do. The trick is to … Continue reading →

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A Tip for Mac/Emacs Users

Posted on 2016-02-28 by jcs

Here’s a nice tip for Emacs users on OS X: (setq mac-right-alternate-modifier nil)Use #OSX extended character entry with right alt/option/meta key in #emacs/cc @toxi — ⸘Jack Rusher‽ (@jackrusher) February 22, 2016

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