Monthly Archives: October 2015

Ruining the Internet

Posted on 2015-10-04 by jcs

John Gruber over at Daring Fireball has a post on how adtech is ruining the Internet. He points to an article on Bloomberg that makes the case for how disastrous adtech is for advertisers. When I followed the link, Bloomberg … Continue reading →

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We Have to Outlaw Gloves

Posted on 2015-10-03 by jcs

A nice followup to Blaze’s tweet that encryption was a problem in only four cases last year. I'll bet burglars wore gloves to avoid leaving fingerprint evidence a lot more than four times last year. Time for a war on … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday: Free at Last

Posted on 2015-10-03 by jcs

It’s long been obvious to anyone who took a serious look that the claimed copyrights on “Happy Birthday” are invalid. That hasn’t stopped Warner Music from extorting user fees on the order of two million dollars a year, though. Now, … Continue reading →

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A Nifty Example of Metaprogramming

Posted on 2015-10-02 by jcs

Some of the most enjoyable programming I do is metaprogramming: writing code that writes code. Lisp macros are all about that, of course, but the idea is much more general. Often times the code that the code writes is just … Continue reading →

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Org Basics IV

Posted on 2015-10-01 by jcs

Ben Maughan has posted the fourth episode in his Org Mode Basics series. This time he talks about formatting the text in Org buffers and adding executable source code blocks to your Org file. The Org markup language is very … Continue reading →

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