Monthly Archives: April 2018

Sed

Posted on 2018-04-20 by jcs

In the days before GUIs, Unix users depended on a suite of command line tools to do their text manipulation. One of those tools, sed, is still used and useful today but many younger engineers are unfamiliar with it. The … Continue reading →

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RMS on Data Collection

Posted on 2018-04-19 by jcs

RMS has an article in the Guardian that discusses the safety of your on-line data. With the recent exposure of Facebook surveillance practices and their consequences, reporters have been asking him if he thinks it could be a turning point … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Hugo and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-04-18 by jcs

Over at ZCL.SPACE there’s an informative post about blogging with Hugo and Org mode. The post serves as a reasonable go-by for setting up and using Hugo for an attractive, static blog. Although Hugo now supports Org markup natively, the … Continue reading →

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The Job from Hell

Posted on 2018-04-17 by jcs

Imagine it’s Friday afternoon and you’re sitting in the local bar with a bunch of other developers bitching about how your company and its management is the worst ever. Then the guy from Project Failures stands up and says, “Hold … Continue reading →

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<t> Is Undefined

Posted on 2018-04-16 by jcs

Is anyone else seeing the error message <t> is undefined when using Emacs? Occasionally Emacs will respond to a keypress with that error in the echo area and Messages buffer. The key is otherwise discarded but pressing it again will … Continue reading →

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Update: One Down

Posted on 2018-04-15 by jcs

Those of you who read Irreal on mobile devices or who just have a heightened sense of aesthetics will be happy to know that I’ve developed a workaround for the formatting problems that I wrote about yesterday. The problem, I … Continue reading →

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Reminder and Update

Posted on 2018-04-14 by jcs

Back on March 2, I posted that org2blog was suddenly not working. I was certain that it was something my host provider was doing but that turned out to (probably) not be right. In order to push posts to WordPress, … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1 RC-1

Posted on 2018-04-13 by jcs

I just installed Emacs 26.1 RC-1 and am using it as my production Emacs. Well, actually I installed it last night but I wrote this last night so, “I just installed it” as I’m writing this. It’s astounding how easy … Continue reading →

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Mike Zamansky

Posted on 2018-04-12 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Mike Zamansky and his Using Emacs Series of videos. If you’ve watched those videos carefully or follow his blog, you know he’s a professor at Hunter College’s School of Education where … Continue reading →

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Elisp Slime Nav

Posted on 2018-04-11 by jcs

A few months ago, I stumbled across elisp-slime-nav and decided to try it out. For some reason—lost to the mists of time—I didn’t write about it at then. That’s too bad because it’s a really useful package that anyone who … Continue reading →

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