Category Archives: General

The End Of The Story (Finally)?

Posted on 2024-11-06 by jcs

If you’re a younger engineer, this probably won’t mean much to you but if you’ve been around since, say, the turn of the century it’s a huge story. Darl McBride has died and, oddly, no one seems to have noticed. … Continue reading →

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CFPB: Customers Own Their Bank Data

Posted on 2024-11-05 by jcs

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ruled that, essentially, consumers own their banking data and banks must make it easy to retrieve that data and, if they wish, transfer it to another institution. That’s big news and another chapter … Continue reading →

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Adding A Year Tag From A Capture Template

Posted on 2024-11-04 by jcs

James Dyer has a good idea for organizing his org-based notes. It’s simple: add a year tag to each note. It helps to organize the notes and makes it easy to filter them by year. When he first implemented the … Continue reading →

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The Blogosphere Is Dying(?)

Posted on 2024-11-03 by jcs

As a nice contraposition to yesterday’s post on how the blogosphere is the only remaining vibrant part of that segment of the Internet dedicated to what could loosely be called “social media”, Venkatesh Rao opines that the blogosphere is dying. … Continue reading →

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The Ascendance Of The Blogosphere

Posted on 2024-11-02 by jcs

The Guardian has an interesting article on longtime blogger Dave Winer and posits that the blogosphere is blooming while the rest of the Internet is wilting. By “the rest of the Internet” they actually mean social media. In a sense, … Continue reading →

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TSV To Table

Posted on 2024-11-01 by jcs

Philippe Gaultier has an interesting post on making a table of project dependencies. He’s using Rust, for which there is a tool to produce a tab-delimited (TSV) file of dependencies. The problem, for Gaultier, is that the output is not … Continue reading →

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Define Alternatives

Posted on 2024-10-31 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an excellent post concerning a function I didn’t know about. It helps with the following problem: suppose you have a function with several implementations, want to access them with a single function name, and need to … Continue reading →

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More Hard Coded Credentials

Posted on 2024-10-30 by jcs

Remember a month ago when I ranted wrote about Solar Winds making what can only be described as professional malfeasance by hard coding credentials into one of their applications? It seemed worth writing about because, after all, that was surely … Continue reading →

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Who Created Emacs

Posted on 2024-10-29 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, FirmSupermarket6933 asks who really created Emacs. He cites various sources claiming that RMS did or did not create it. Is he responsible only for GNU Emacs or was he there from the beginning? Sadly the … Continue reading →

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Casual Redux

Posted on 2024-10-28 by jcs

Charles Choi has a new announcement about his Casual package. Several of his users encouraged him to offer Casual to Emacs core or Elpa. He did that and, of course, he got push back. The main complaint was that there … Continue reading →

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