Category Archives: General

Does Anyone Really Think This Is A Problem?

Posted on 2012-07-29 by jcs

Oliver Reichenstein over at the iA has a strange post/article positing that nested directories are hard to understand. Reichenstein celebrates the iOS/Mountain Lion approach to file systems in which directories can be at most one level deep (and even that … Continue reading →

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Syncing With Git Repositories

Posted on 2012-07-28 by jcs

Last month, I wrote about how I keep my two main machines in sync using git and how, after doing a git pull, I use a bit of Elisp to automate the reverting of my open buffers. After automating the … Continue reading →

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The Master Speaks

Posted on 2012-07-27 by jcs

The road to wisdom begins with a single step, grasshopper.

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Using Expand-Region

Posted on 2012-07-25 by jcs

Back in January I wrote about Magnar Sveen’s expand-region package that he described in Emacs Rocks #9. I recently loaded the code with ELPA and have been using it for my day-to-day work. I really like this package. It’s extraordinary … Continue reading →

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Password Reuse

Posted on 2012-07-24 by jcs

I’ve mentioned Troy Hunt’s writings here before. Hunt writes regularly on security and always has something interesting to say. Last year I wrote about Hunt’s analysis of passwords from the Sony compromise and—sorry but it’s true—the stupid choices people make … Continue reading →

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Working With Rectangles

Posted on 2012-07-23 by jcs

Xah Lee has a nice updated post on working with rectangles and some other loosely related matters. Every time I see these commands I think how useful they are and then promptly forget about them. I’m going to make an … Continue reading →

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Juan José García Ripoll: Lisp Hacker

Posted on 2012-07-22 by jcs

This is slightly old news but over at Lisp, The Universe and Everything there’s a nice interview with Juan José García Ripoll, the developer of Embeddable Common Lisp. The thing about Ripoll is that he’s not a programmer1; he’s a … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of an Exploit

Posted on 2012-07-19 by jcs

As I wrote yesterday, someone hacked the Irreal WordPress installation causing it to inject JavaScript into pages served by the blog. Here’s a copy of the hacked index.php file: <?php eval(base64_decode(‘JGlwPSRfU0VSVkVS /* elided */ );?> <?php /** * Front to … Continue reading →

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Shift Select Mode

Posted on 2012-07-17 by jcs

I’m probably the last Emacs user to discover this but here’s a nifty trick that I learned today while trawling through some of Magnar Sveen’s .emacs.d files. If you hold down the shift key when moving the point, the region … Continue reading →

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Moving and Returning

Posted on 2012-07-16 by jcs

Xah Lee asks what’s the best way to jump to another position in a buffer and then return to the original point? Emacs users know a lot of ways of doing this. We can, for example, use 【Ctrl+s】 to move … Continue reading →

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