Category Archives: General

Hy 1.0.0

Posted on 2024-09-26 by jcs

Eight and a half years ago, I wrote about the Hy language and John Kitchin’s experiments with it [1, 2]. The TL;DR is that Hy lets you write in a Lisp-like language while having access to the power of Python. … Continue reading →

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Hurricane Headsup

Posted on 2024-09-25 by jcs

Just a heads up. Hurricane Helena is coming up the Florida coast and is predicted to be huge and strong (a Cat 4). Fortunately for the Irreal Bunker it will be pretty far offshore from Tampa but given its huge … Continue reading →

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Emacs Doc Bling

Posted on 2024-09-25 by jcs

As most of you know, Irreal doesn’t think much of editor-connected bling. We much prefer simple efficiency to flashy accouterments that, in the end, simply get in the way of a decent editing experience. That’s true even though they can, … Continue reading →

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Casual EditKit

Posted on 2024-09-24 by jcs

Charles Choi has another Casual app on offer. This time it’s a comprehensive set of menus, Casual EditKit, that capture the various editing commands. On the one hand, these are commands that you really need to know to become proficient … Continue reading →

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Holding The Program In Your Head

Posted on 2024-09-23 by jcs

Paul Graham has a very interesting post that considers why it’s so hard for most corporations to produce good software. Actually, his post isn’t quite about that. Rather, it discusses why it’s so hard and so important for a programmer … Continue reading →

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Phrontisterion

Posted on 2024-09-22 by jcs

A few days ago, I wrote about Trevor Hopkins’ site and his hosting of some very nice material concerning Iain M Banks’ Culture universe. My post was about a detailed description of the Culture and how it works that was … Continue reading →

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Emacs Popup Frames

Posted on 2024-09-21 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou (Prot) has posted a really nice and useful video on something that I’ve been struggling with off and on for many years. The problem is I often want—usually several times a day—to pop up an Emacs buffer and … Continue reading →

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🥩 Red Meat Friday: More Red Meat For Emacsers

Posted on 2024-09-20 by jcs

You can think of today’s post as a coda to last week’s Red Meat Friday. Unlike that post, this week’s offering isn’t really about the editor holy war. It’s about Emacs versus every other editor out there, which is a … Continue reading →

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Speaking Of Emacs Keyboards

Posted on 2024-09-19 by jcs

After my last post on ideal Emacs keyboards, here’s a reminder of what reality actually looks like. When I used to see pictures like that, I thought they were amusing but couldn’t really relate. Now my own laptop keyboard is … Continue reading →

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The Ideal Emacs Keyboard

Posted on 2024-09-18 by jcs

If you’re a real Emacs aficionado then you probably think that the ideal—indeed, the only acceptable—keyboard for Emacs is the Space Cadet Keybord. I’m sympathetic to that view and would love to have such a keyboard available to use. Sadly, … Continue reading →

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