Monthly Archives: February 2018

Emacs for Devops

Posted on 2018-02-18 by jcs

Alexey Koval has a nice post on Emacs as a devops editor. It’s from a little over a year old but it’s still worth taking a look at. I’m not involved with devops but I still learned a few useful … Continue reading →

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Adtech: Everything That’s Wrong with the Internet?

Posted on 2018-02-17 by jcs

Kontra takes note of this New York Times article: Privacy vs. adtech, a NYTimes edition 2015: Real men don’t need no privacyhttps://t.co/xCFL5CZXtw 2018: Blossoming enlightenment https://t.co/eEJ8eBJ44Z — Kontra (@counternotions) February 1, 2018 The article is by Farhad Manjoo, who in … Continue reading →

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The UPSide Project

Posted on 2018-02-16 by jcs

Last week I wrote about Eric Raymond’s UPS rant. If you missed that, the TL;DR is that UPSes are horrible, don’t do what they’re supposed to do or meet their specs, and mostly excel only in inducing rage in their … Continue reading →

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Structures in Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2018-02-15 by jcs

Chris Wellons over at Null Program has another great post. It considers how to define and use structures in Emacs Lisp. What I like most about the post is that it starts with the obvious solution of using a list … Continue reading →

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What Has Emacs Replaced Your Workflow

Posted on 2018-02-14 by jcs

I always think of my Emacs configuration as a Japanese garden: it’s always underway but never reaches perfection. The other day, I saw this tweet: What has emacs replaced in your life? https://t.co/5adbsfy8bz #emacs — /r/Emacs (@EmacsReddit) February 11, 2018 … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 41: Pandoc

Posted on 2018-02-13 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has the latest video in his Using Emacs Series up. This time it’s about leveraging Pandoc to deal with document interchange. I’ve written about Pandoc before but usually in the context of converting an Org document to some … Continue reading →

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Org-Noter

Posted on 2018-02-12 by jcs

I’ve been happily using Interleave to takes notes while reading PDFs ever since I read about it in Piotr Limanowski’s excellent post on Reading for Programmers. It’s a great way to take notes that are synchronized with the PDF. Gonçalo … Continue reading →

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Paper Jams

Posted on 2018-02-11 by jcs

Paper jams. We all know about them, we’ve all experienced them, and we’ve all cursed at them. What most of us probably haven’t done is think very much about them. If you’re like me you just consider them something that … Continue reading →

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Emacs Tweaks from Other Editors

Posted on 2018-02-10 by jcs

Ruben Berenguel has a useful post on Emacs tweaks from other editors. Berenguel works at a company where virtually everyone uses a different editor and even though he’s an Emacs user, he gets to see useful features from the competition. … Continue reading →

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The UPS Follies

Posted on 2018-02-09 by jcs

Eric Raymond has a splendid rant about the lossage that goes by the name of UPS systems. They are, he says—at all price ranges—garbage. They don’t, as a rule, meet their specs, have reasonable display of errors, or allow for … Continue reading →

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