Category Archives: Blogging

Delay Update

Posted on 2013-11-16 by jcs

Just a quick note to bring you up to date on my efforts to fix the slow page loading that’s been plaguing Irreal lately. As I mentioned in my last update, the problem appears to be page generation not server … Continue reading →

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Update on Slow Loading of Irreal

Posted on 2013-11-13 by jcs

A quick update on the Irreal loading problems. I ran a tcpdump on a typical page load of Irreal and discovered the following: The initial three-way handshake with the server completes almost immediately. Immediately afterwards the GET from the browser … Continue reading →

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Help: Irreal Loading Slowly

Posted on 2013-11-09 by jcs

For the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that Irreal has been loading slowly. Irreal, like many small WordPress blogs, runs on a virtual server and I assumed that my hosting provider was moving things around a bit and that … Continue reading →

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Using yasnippet to Reduce Blogging Friction

Posted on 2013-10-14 by jcs

Every Irreal blog post begins with some header information that tells org2blog the title, category, and tags for the post. These get communicated to WordPress when org2blog exports the post. Those lines look like this: #+TITLE: Using =yasnippet= to Reduce … Continue reading →

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A Year of Posts

Posted on 2013-06-01 by jcs

A year ago today I gave myself a challenge: make at least one post to Irreal every day for a year. Yesterday’s post successfully completed that challenge. It was harder than I thought. The experience has given me a new … Continue reading →

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Emacs Challenge?

Posted on 2013-02-05 by jcs

Some of the most popular posts here at Irreal are those in which I attempt bring the power of Emacs to bear on VimGolf problems. I like those posts too because I always learn some new tricks both by working … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs—Another Method

Posted on 2012-01-16 by jcs

Today, someone on Hacker News pointed to an old post on Blogging With Emacs over at Work In Progress. Since some of my readers had expressed an interest in how I use Emacs and Org-mode to blog, I thought there … Continue reading →

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WordPress And Trackbacks

Posted on 2011-12-26 by jcs

I’m a big fan of WordPress. I know a lot of people disagree but it works very well for me. It allows me to maintain a nicely laid out blog without spending a lot of time with administration. I do … Continue reading →

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Administrivia

Posted on 2011-11-22 by jcs

The scum spammers, who doubtless describe themselves as SEO consultants, have discovered a new way to get links into forum comments: trackbacks and pingbacks. Irreal does have the occasional legitimate trackback and I enjoy them as they give me a … Continue reading →

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Happy Anniversary To Mastering Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-11 by jcs

Happy Anniversary to Mickey Petersen and Mastering Emacs. Mickey has been posting really great material for a year now and we should all hope he continues. As I’ve said before, Mickey always has something interesting to say and I invariably … Continue reading →

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