Category Archives: General

Patching A Homebrew Emacs

Posted on 2025-07-25 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez is a genius at what might be called programming at the edges. By that I mean he’s good a finding and solving small problems that can negatively effect our workflows. A great example of that is his dwim-shell-command … Continue reading →

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Functions To Streamline Your Writing Workflow

Posted on 2025-07-24 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has another post on streamlining your writing. I like his posts because he’s an actual writer and we can be sure that the things he recommends actually work, at least for him. His latest post is a list … Continue reading →

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The UK Is Seeking A Way To Back Down On Encryption

Posted on 2025-07-23 by jcs

As I reported 5 or 6 months ago, the UK decided to issue an order to Apple mandating a backdoor to all their users’ data. Apple responded by simply withdrawing their encryption services from the UK. At the time I … Continue reading →

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Emacs Carnival Writing Experience: Eric MacAdie

Posted on 2025-07-22 by jcs

The latest addition to the Emacs Carnival on Writing Experience is from Eric MacAdie. He begins by saying that with the exception of source code, he hardly ever writes plain text files anymore, only Org files. I realized, when I … Continue reading →

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Emacs Send To

Posted on 2025-07-21 by jcs

Álvaro Ramírez, whom I’ve a written a lot about lately because of his excellent Journelly app, just announced that an Emacs patch of his has been accepted and merged into Master. That sort of thing happens everyday, of course, but … Continue reading →

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Emacs Everywhere Even In Wayland

Posted on 2025-07-20 by jcs

I could have written these words: If you are anything like me, you probably feel something is wrong whenever you have to input text outside of Emacs. but I didn’t. They were actually written by Thanos Apollo. Like me, he … Continue reading →

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Customizing The Help Menu

Posted on 2025-07-19 by jcs

If you follow Charles Choi’s work, you’ll know that, unlike some of us, he’s not afraid of menus and uses then frequently. His latest hack is to take a look at—and reimagine—the Emacs Help menu. You can read his post … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: We Should Stop Whining

Posted on 2025-07-18 by jcs

Want to feel ashamed? Of course you don’t but this post will make you feel that way anyway. Too many of us spend our time whining about the tech we use. One aspect of that is how hard it is … Continue reading →

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Org Agenda

Posted on 2025-07-17 by jcs

Chris Maiorana has a post that discusses his thoughts on Org Agenda. His discussion is mainly why you might want to use it and what you’d want to use it for. The main takeaway from his post is that Org … Continue reading →

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The Story Of Mel

Posted on 2025-07-16 by jcs

I know that I’ve written about this before but The Story of Mel is a classic piece of programming lore that all programmers in my cohort knew. I’m not sure if younger programmers know it so if you’re unfamiliar with … Continue reading →

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