Monthly Archives: May 2018

Introduction to EWW

Posted on 2018-05-31 by jcs

I’ve been making a point of trying to use the Emacs Web Wowser (eww) when it makes sense. As much as I’d love to move browsing into Emacs—and thus realize my goal of virtually never leaving it—sadly eww can’t replace … Continue reading →

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Eshell and Emacs Everywhere

Posted on 2018-05-30 by jcs

Seven or eight months ago, I wrote about a couple of posts from Pierre Neidhardt (Ambrevar) concerning Eshell and the utility of doing as much as possible in Emacs (1, 2). Since then, he’s revised them a bit from the … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Adtech

Posted on 2018-05-29 by jcs

As a result of the GDPR going into effect, USA Today is—presumably temporarily—running a special version of their site for those in the European Union. This version has all the ads and tracking scripts disabled. Marcel Freinbichler shows us the … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.1 Is Out

Posted on 2018-05-28 by jcs

Nico Petton tweets the good news: And… #Emacs 26.1 is out! https://t.co/v3BrlQhmMA — Nicolas Petton (@NicolasPetton) May 28, 2018 I’ve already downloaded, compiled, and installed it and am writing this with the new version. If you’re on macOS, here’s my … Continue reading →

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f-strings in Elisp

Posted on 2018-05-27 by jcs

John Kitchin, as you probably know, is a fan of Python as well as of Emacs. One of the things he really likes in Python 3 is f-strings. They allow you to do things like import datetime today=datetime.datetime.today() name=”J. Random … Continue reading →

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The Irreal Privacy Policy

Posted on 2018-05-26 by jcs

As far as I can tell, the GDPR does not apply to Irreal. Nevertheless, Irreal is trivially in compliance because we don’t collect or store any information about our readers. Even if we did collect such information, we would never … Continue reading →

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Using Request to Download Financial Data

Posted on 2018-05-25 by jcs

Sebastian Schweer has a nice post on using the

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Going Dark: How Many Locked Phones Are There?

Posted on 2018-05-24 by jcs

In news that will surprise exactly no Irreal readers, the Washington Post and Techdirt are reporting that the FBI has been lying about the “going dark” problem. One of their favorite refrains is that terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and whatever … Continue reading →

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Reproducible Research for Management

Posted on 2018-05-23 by jcs

The utility of reproducible research and literate programming methods in engineering and science is clear and well known by now but we seldom consider how the techniques might be extended to other disciplines. If, however, you think about what you’re … Continue reading →

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Reproducibility Using GNU Guix

Posted on 2018-05-22 by jcs

Regular readers know I’m fond of reproducible research and occasionally write about it. Unfortunately, I often write as if reproducible research is simply a matter of firing up Emacs and Org mode. It is, of course, a lot more complicated … Continue reading →

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