Monthly Archives: July 2014

Backup Fonts for Unicode Glyphs

Posted on 2014-07-21 by jcs

Trey Harris posed a question on the Google+ Emacs Community that’s been bothering me for some time. I use the terrific Inconsolata as the default for monospaced fonts but many of the Unicode glyphs are missing. Mac OS X takes … Continue reading →

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Russ Cox on Debugging

Posted on 2014-07-20 by jcs

There’s a new site, Debuggers, that is sort of reminiscent of The Setup. The idea is that every week (on Tuesdays) they publish a short questionnaire with a programmer asking about his or her most interesting debugging problem. This week … Continue reading →

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The 10 Greatest Programmers of all Time

Posted on 2014-07-19 by jcs

Last week, I wrote about NetWork World’s 14 Greatest Living Programmers. This week, I’m Programmer has a list of The 10 Greatest Programmers in the World of all Time. Lists of these sorts are always silly, of course, but nevertheless … Continue reading →

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Let’s Play Emacs Golf!

Posted on 2014-07-18 by jcs

It’s been a while since Irreal has had an EmacsGolf challenge but yesterday’s post on Programming Silliness suggested a nice one. When I ran the grep, I got A a aa Ab aba … faff fe fed fee feed The … Continue reading →

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Programming Silliness

Posted on 2014-07-17 by jcs

The other day I saw this post. Although I’m not interested in Java, I was struck by the magic number CAFEBABE that marked the beginning of the structure. That got me wondering how many words can be made with the … Continue reading →

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SBCL 1.2.1 and Slime

Posted on 2014-07-16 by jcs

A couple of weeks ago, SBCL 1.2.1 came out and as I reported at the time, although it compiled and installed correctly, there was a problem with Slime. The 1.2.1 SBCL release changed some internals that Slime relied on and … Continue reading →

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Résumés with Markdown or Org-mode

Posted on 2014-07-15 by jcs

Continuing with our theme of using Emacs for writing rather than coding, Mark Szepieniec and Christophe-Marie Duquesne have a couple of nice posts about writing your résumé in Markdown and then exporting it to the desired format with Pandoc. There’s … Continue reading →

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Creative Writing with Emacs

Posted on 2014-07-14 by jcs

Like many (most?) Emacs users, I do all my writing with Emacs. This mostly involves Org-mode but even when it doesn’t I’m still in some sort of Emacs buffer. I just came across this old Stack Exchange post asking about … Continue reading →

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Xah’s JavaScript Tutorial

Posted on 2014-07-13 by jcs

Many of us have benefited from Xah Lee’s Emacs Lisp tutorial. I found it very useful for learning the Elisp library and idioms. Now Lee has put together a JavaScript tutorial. When I was learning Elisp, I had the advantage … Continue reading →

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14 Great Programmers

Posted on 2014-07-12 by jcs

Over at NetworkWorld they have an interesting article featuring the 14 greatest living programmers. I was a bit surprised that DMR wasn’t on the list but then I remembered the part about living. Also, oddly, you and I aren’t on … Continue reading →

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