Category Archives: General

A Sad Security Prediction

Posted on 2016-01-22 by jcs

Those of us who care about security will find this sad but in our hearts we know it’s true: 1995: Every object in your home has a clock & it is blinking 12:00 2025: Every object in your home has a … Continue reading →

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Xwidget Branch Merged Into Emacs 25.1

Posted on 2016-01-22 by jcs

The XWidget branch has been merged into Emacs 25.1. One very important consequence of that is that it should be possible to embed webkit into Emacs. Perhaps we’re finally getting closer to the dream of a browser inside Emacs1. At … Continue reading →

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PSA

Posted on 2016-01-21 by jcs

Apress is having a 40% sale on the eBook versions of Edi Weitz’s Common Lisp Recipes. If you’re a Lisper, you’ll definitely want this book. I just bought my copy so I haven’t had a chance to peruse it yet. … Continue reading →

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Taking Notes with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-01-21 by jcs

Most of you know how I love reading “workflow” articles, especially if they involve Emacs and Org. Brandon van Beekum has a nice post on how he uses Org mode to take notes and then export them to share with … Continue reading →

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Search for Symbol at Point

Posted on 2016-01-20 by jcs

Artur Malabarba has another excellent bit of Elisp for us to improve our workflow. This time it’s a quick and easy way to search for the symbol at point. He binds his code to 【Ctrl+u Ctrl+s】 but remarks that that … Continue reading →

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Turn Off Adblock, Get Served Malware

Posted on 2016-01-18 by jcs

I’ve written before about the horror that is adtech. Advertisers send us megabytes of Javascript for 500 words of content so that they can track us and build profiles of our habits and preferences. When users finally tired of this … Continue reading →

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Gnus Guide Update

Posted on 2016-01-17 by jcs

After Sacha’s chat with John Wiegley that explored how Wiegley uses Gnus to manage his Emacs maintainer workflow, there’s been a bit of renewed interest from Emacsers in using it for their email client. Unfortunately, Gnus is a large and … Continue reading →

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TPP: A Warning

Posted on 2016-01-16 by jcs

#StopTPP Retweet this. Then retweet it again. We need this all over the Internet now. pic.twitter.com/x8rS8KfAoi https://t.co/7mOyNfoiIQ — Ruth E. Kastner (@rekastner) January 13, 2016

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Running Emacs as a Daemon

Posted on 2016-01-16 by jcs

M. J. Wall has an interesting post entitled How I Use Emacs. Wall’s workflow is a bit unusual—by which I mean different from mine—in that he spends a lot of time in the terminal even though he’s running GUI desktops … Continue reading →

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Org Schedules and Deadlines

Posted on 2016-01-15 by jcs

Ben Maughan has another great post in his Org mode series. This time, he augments his simple TODO list with schedules and deadlines. Org mode is famously flexible and that can make it hard to settle on a strategy for … Continue reading →

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