Category Archives: General

The History of Crypto Backdoors

Posted on 2015-07-25 by jcs

Matthew Green has a nice post recounting the history of government mandated backdoors. If you’re too young to remember the first round of the Crypto Wars from the 1990s, you’ll find Green’s history fascinating. Back then it was about the … Continue reading →

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Function Navigation

Posted on 2015-07-24 by jcs

Here’s a handy tip from Wilfred Hughes for navigation around functions: Emacs shortcuts of the day: C-M-a moves to beginning of a function, C-M-e to the end, and C-M-h selects it. — Wilfred Hughes (@_wilfredh) June 18, 2015

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Mickey on Magit 2.x

Posted on 2015-07-24 by jcs

Back before the latest big upgrade, Mickey wrote a wonderful article on Magit that I covered here. Now Mickey is back with What is new in Magit 2.x. He covers the subject in more depth than Nathan Willis’ short summary … Continue reading →

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Tip: Balance Your Windows

Posted on 2015-07-23 by jcs

Samuel Tonini has a handy tip for those occasions when you find yourself with lots of Emacs windows of different sizes. My Emacs tip for today: If you getting lost in a lot of different window splits of any size, … Continue reading →

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Put a Fork in it.

Posted on 2015-07-23 by jcs

Finally, there’s a real push to get rid of one of the worst exploit vectors. Ever since Alex Stamos’ tweet calling for an end-of-life for Flash there is accelerating agreement that it’s time to kill flash. The idea of Flash … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Cookbook

Posted on 2015-07-22 by jcs

I’ve written about this before but it bears repeating If you use #emacs or #orgmode and you write techincal documents check out: http://t.co/gcw0KMWRXy — David Bjergaard (@dbjergaard) June 10, 2015

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Org Returns

Posted on 2015-07-22 by jcs

Org mode can be a sort of odd beast when you’re editing in one of its buffers. That’s because even though it’s plain text it’s also providing a way of structuring text. Grant Rettke takes note of this fact and … Continue reading →

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Emacs Redux on Avy

Posted on 2015-07-21 by jcs

I’ve been a fan of ace-jump-mode ever since I saw Magnar Sveen’s outstanding video on jumping around. Development on the package has gone dormant but abo-abo came to the rescue with avy. I’ve written about avy previously and agree with … Continue reading →

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Emacs Zen

Posted on 2015-07-20 by jcs

Bryan Roberts over at Soul Physics has an interesting Githup repository, called Emacs Zen, that shows how to set up Emacs on OS X as a LaTeX/Markdown/HTML/CSS/JavaScript system. If you want an Emacs installation geared for writing, his repository has … Continue reading →

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Tiny

Posted on 2015-07-19 by jcs

Eric James Michael Ritz has an excellent post on another of abo-abo’s great packages.

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