Category Archives: General

Learn From Your Tools

Posted on 2016-01-06 by jcs

N0v0id (Karl Voit) mentioned my post Learning the Right Tools and made an excellent point If you want to be a good #engineer, learn (from) the best #tools: https://t.co/lDkkOk7En6 #Emacs #vim #PIM — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016 One of the … Continue reading →

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Channeling George Orwell

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

Karl Voit brings us a message from George Orwell: A message from George Orwell to everyone on the Internet: https://t.co/aDgmlCRTCz #privacy #videos #mustsee — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016

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Why I Use Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

'The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.' — Donald E. Knuth — Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) January 1, 2016 One of the salient features of Emacs is how much I enjoy using it. I suspect … Continue reading →

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Surveillance Karma

Posted on 2016-01-03 by jcs

Remember a year ago when the CIA was shown to have spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Senator Dianne Feinstein, a vocal apologist for NSA snooping, was beside herself demanding investigations into the nation-threatening lawlessness on the part of the … Continue reading →

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I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Thing about Surveillance

Posted on 2016-01-02 by jcs

Moxie Marlinspike, whom I’ve written about before, has a nice article on Wired about Why I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance. In the first place, you have no idea of whether you have … Continue reading →

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Integrating iCal and Org Mode

Posted on 2015-12-31 by jcs

Rob Rohan has a very nice video up on integrating Org mode and OS X1 iCal. In his case, he wants to create a physical training schedule that will be reflected in his desktop calendar as well as on his … Continue reading →

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Operator Precedence

Posted on 2015-12-30 by jcs

This seems funny until you realize that it’s true: Operator precedence is a workaround for the problem of having forgotten to make your programming language a lisp. — Gary Fredericks (@gfredericks_) October 7, 2015

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The Eighties Called…

Posted on 2015-12-29 by jcs

…with a message for today’s new Luddites moaning about smart phones and the end of times. "In real life you won't always have a calculator with you." — math teachers in the 80s — Joe Sondow (@JoeSondow) December 28, 2015 … Continue reading →

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Learning the Right Tools

Posted on 2015-12-28 by jcs

I was going to let this go It's almost 2016. Let's stop telling newbies to learn #Emacs or Vim, or any other "1337" command line shit. https://t.co/RiOg03tLhG #elitism — Niko Rosvall (@NikoRosvall) December 13, 2015 but it kept bothering me … Continue reading →

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The EFF Talks Encryption

Posted on 2015-12-27 by jcs

Everyone interested in the encryption wars knows that the EFF has done yeoman’s service defending our right to have access to strong, uncompromised encryption. Certain parts of the government hate this and insist that they need—for our own good, of … Continue reading →

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