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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Starting with Scheme
Mike Zamansky has an interesting post on using Scheme as a first language for CS instruction. That’s not a new idea, of course. MIT’s famed 6.001 course (Entry Level Computing) used Scheme and SICP for years. Their course was adopted … Continue reading
ESR Evaluates Go
Last month I wrote about Eric Raymond’s (ESR) work on NTPsec and his comparison of Go and Rust with a view of replacing C with one of them as an implementation language. As part of his work on that comparison, … Continue reading
Digital Workflow: Pocket Carry Edition
The other day, I wrote about my digital workflow and scanning and then I saw an article about putting ATM cards on our smartphones. This isn’t just pie in the sky. JPMorgan Chase already has a pilot program in four … Continue reading
A Security PSA
|￣￣￣￣￣￣ || STOP ||INSTALLING ||SOFTWARE || VIA || CURL | SH || ＿＿＿＿＿＿|(\__/) ||(•ㅅ•) ||/ づ — postmodern (@postmodern_mod3) November 6, 2016 Who would do this? Even worse is when they ask you to put sudo in front of … Continue reading
Paperless
As I’ve written before, I maintain an almost exclusively digital workflow. About 8 years ago I banished pads, pens, and pencils from my desk and started taking notes and doing other record keeping chores on my computers and iOS devices. … Continue reading
Another Recommendation for Which-key
A few days ago I wrote about Mike Zamansky’s video on rectangles. Most of my commentary involved ways of dealing with the difficulty of remembering the rectangle commands and their key chords. One of the solutions I discussed was which-key, … Continue reading
Resetting a defvar Value
Apropos of yesterday’s post, I came across this query on Reddit and learned a new keystroke. One of the counterintuitive peculiarities of Elisp—and Lisps in general—is that a value defined by defvar or defcustom is immutable: once set it can’t … Continue reading
When Will I Learn All of Emacs?
Never, apparently I started using EMACS with Gosling Emacs in 1987. I'm still learning useful new key chords 30 years later. #oldcoder #emacs — awadelewis (@awadelewis) February 7, 2017
Org 9.0.5
There’s a new (bug fix) version of Org Mode out: #orgmode #emacs 9.0.5, a minor bugfix release, it out. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) February 10, 2017 At the time of this post, it’s not yet in Melpa but doubtless … Continue reading
Zamansky 28: Rectangles
Mike Zamansky has posted number 28 in his Using Emacs video series. This one is about rectangle editing. As Zamansky says, you don’t often need this but when you do it’s really handy. My problem with it is that because … Continue reading