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Update To Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-15 by jcs

Yesterday I wrote that I had reconsidered my stance on Jinx and decided to give it a serious try. The only problem I had was that picking the correct spelling wasn’t working as advertised. I speculated that this was probably … Continue reading →

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Jinx Reconsidered

Posted on 2026-07-14 by jcs

In a stunning case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, I’ve been running across the Jinx spelling corrector everywhere. I had never heard of it until last week when I watched and wrote about Prot’s video on writing in foreign languages with … Continue reading →

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Gruber On Apple Advertising

Posted on 2026-07-13 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has an excellent article about the slippery slope Apple is on with their embracing of advertising. I’ve written about this before. For a company like Apple, advertising is deeply corrupting and inevitably ends with … Continue reading →

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Jinx For Spell Correction

Posted on 2026-07-12 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a nice post on the Jinx spell corrector. Mbork has tried fly-spell but found it too laggy for his purposes. That was back in the days when he had a Pentium class machine running at 100 … Continue reading →

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Highest Org Priority

Posted on 2026-07-11 by jcs

If you’re an Org user, you probably know that you can assign a priority to TODO items. By default, the priorities are A, B, and C but with a bit of trickery you can extend the ranges to 0–9 and … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: Apple And The Cost Of Ram

Posted on 2026-07-10 by jcs

The technical press is wetting their pants—or pretending to—about Apple1 raising prices on many of their products due to the AI industry fed rise in RAM prices. It’s outrageous, they claim. Apple should just eat the cost of those increases … Continue reading →

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Globally Overriding Keys

Posted on 2026-07-09 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (prot) has an excellent video that addresses a problem I often see people asking about. The problem is how to globally set a key binding so that it won’t be overridden. He uses setting Meta+o to other-window as … Continue reading →

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Insert Mode

Posted on 2026-07-08 by jcs

My pal Watts Martin has a post that explores an artifact from the past: the insert key. Martin, who’s been a Mac head much longer than I have, remembers when Mac keyboards still had an Insert. They no longer do, … Continue reading →

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Problems With Org Mode Code Blocks

Posted on 2026-07-07 by jcs

Raymond Zeitler has an interesting post on an aspect of using Org Mode code blocks that I didn’t know about. Zeitler says that he prefers to write his code in separate code files rather than in Org mode code blocks … Continue reading →

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Linux Removes Strncpy

Posted on 2026-07-06 by jcs

Back when I learned C, people were still using strcpy and even gets. After a while, people started saying that strcpy wasn’t safe and that you should use strncpy instead to avoid buffer overruns, either accidental or deliberate. Those days … Continue reading →

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