Monthly Archives: January 2016

Doing Away with Autosave Files

Posted on 2016-01-08 by jcs

I don’t like the loss of control but if you’d rather not worry about recover-file, Anna Pawlicka has you covered: Ha! I can set auto-save-visited-file-name to a non-nil value & have #emacs auto-save in the visited file. Bye you annoying … Continue reading →

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Calling Applescript from Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-07 by jcs

In this thread concerning adding certain OS X features to Emacs, I learned something I didn’t know. Daniel Colascione points out that Emacs supports invokng Applescript directly. To invoke Applescript with the string SCRIPT you make the call (do-applescript SCRIPT) … Continue reading →

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Karma

Posted on 2016-01-06 by jcs

It’s never nice to revel in schadenfreude, I suppose, but sometimes karma just feels so right.

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Learn From Your Tools

Posted on 2016-01-06 by jcs

N0v0id (Karl Voit) mentioned my post Learning the Right Tools and made an excellent point If you want to be a good #engineer, learn (from) the best #tools: https://t.co/lDkkOk7En6 #Emacs #vim #PIM — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016 One of the … Continue reading →

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Eight Sorts Animated

Posted on 2016-01-05 by jcs

Animations showing the action of sort algorithms are common. Indeed, there’s even one using Hungarian folk dancers. The other day, I stumbled across the best animation that I’ve seen. It’s an animation of 8 different sort algorithms with 4 different … Continue reading →

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Channeling George Orwell

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

Karl Voit brings us a message from George Orwell: A message from George Orwell to everyone on the Internet: https://t.co/aDgmlCRTCz #privacy #videos #mustsee — n0v0id (@n0v0id) January 2, 2016

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Why I Use Emacs

Posted on 2016-01-04 by jcs

'The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work.' — Donald E. Knuth — Unix tool tip (@UnixToolTip) January 1, 2016 One of the salient features of Emacs is how much I enjoy using it. I suspect … Continue reading →

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Surveillance Karma

Posted on 2016-01-03 by jcs

Remember a year ago when the CIA was shown to have spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee? Senator Dianne Feinstein, a vocal apologist for NSA snooping, was beside herself demanding investigations into the nation-threatening lawlessness on the part of the … Continue reading →

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I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Thing about Surveillance

Posted on 2016-01-02 by jcs

Moxie Marlinspike, whom I’ve written about before, has a nice article on Wired about Why I Have Nothing to Hide is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance. In the first place, you have no idea of whether you have … Continue reading →

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Functional Programming

Posted on 2016-01-01 by jcs

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Kris Jenkins’ wonderful video that demonstrated interactive programming while building a Spotify client in Emacs Lisp. It’s one of my favorite videos and I’m still seeing it mentioned as new people discover … Continue reading →

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