Monthly Archives: June 2018

Two Videos on Early Unix

Posted on 2018-06-30 by jcs

I just came across some old videos from AT&T about Unix that are worth taking some time to watch. I thought I had written about them before but I couldn’t find any mention of them either locally or on Irreal … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Commune

Posted on 2018-06-29 by jcs

Someone posted a chapter from Sam Williams’ book Free as in Freedom (online here), that discusses the early history of Emacs. The chapter, The Emacs Commune, is full of things I didn’t know about how Emacs evolved from the TECO … Continue reading →

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HTTPS Is Easy

Posted on 2018-06-28 by jcs

Troy Hunt, whom I’ve written about many times, has performed a public service by putting together 4 simple videos that show how easy it is to implement HTTPS on your site. The link takes you to a blog post that … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Interface to the macOS System Dictionary

Posted on 2018-06-27 by jcs

As I’ve said many times, I consider abo-abo’s define-word one of my most useful packages. I use it several times a day. If you’re looking for a dictionary that ties in seamlessly with Emacs, you should take a look at … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming Using Org Babel

Posted on 2018-06-26 by jcs

Gregory Stein has an excellent post on Literate Programming with Org-Mode. Despite the title, it’s really more about leveraging Org Babel to create literate documents that contain notes, code, and results. This is, of course, the same area that Howard … Continue reading →

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Howard Abrams on Capturing Data to the Current Task

Posted on 2018-06-25 by jcs

Howard Abrams has a very nice post in which he talks about how he uses Org capture in his workflow. Most of us are familiar with Org capture and the use of templates to store data in some Org file. … Continue reading →

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Get Your News From Blogs

Posted on 2018-06-24 by jcs

Lately, it’s become obvious that just about every “official news source”—even tech sites—are in it only for the clicks. Journalists have been ignorant and biased for a long time, of course—see Michael Crichton’s hilarious explanation of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect … Continue reading →

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Xah Lee on Frames vs. Window in Emacs

Posted on 2018-06-23 by jcs

Xah Lee has an interesting post that I hadn’t seen before even though it’s originally from 2014 (since updated) and mentions a post of mine. The post is a discussion of whether it’s better to have a single large Emacs … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 49: Mu4e-conversation

Posted on 2018-06-22 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs Series up. This time he talks about mu4e-conversation, which I wrote about previously. Mu4e-conversation is a package that makes reading email threads easier. It has two modes, (1) linear mode that … Continue reading →

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Klipse

Posted on 2018-06-21 by jcs

I was looking through my file of blog ideas and found an interesting post about the Klipse plugin. The idea is that Klipse allows a blog post—or any Web page—to contain live code examples. Live code examples are just code … Continue reading →

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