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Monthly Archives: August 2018
A Lisp Machine
Sorta. Kedalion Daimon has a really interesting project in which he takes an old Brother EP 44 adds an Arduino Due and the very definition of a Rube Goldberg power supply to build a makeshift Lisp machine. It’s a Lisp … Continue reading
The Many Uses of Org Mode
It’s almost a cliche that “I came to Emacs for X but stayed for Org mode.” Org really is the killer app for n00bs, although I believe it’s more of a gateway drug. After you’ve been here for a while, … Continue reading
Storing Energy with Concrete Blocks
One of the big problems with alternative energy sources, such as wind and solar, is that they can’t generate electricity all the time. That means that that they need a way to store the excess energy they generate when they’re … Continue reading
Why Emacs is a Great Editor
Ayrat Badykov has a short post on Why Emacs is a great text editor. The post is really about why he switched to Emacs and why he’s sticking with it. Although you won’t find anything in the post to convince … Continue reading
The Ferret Lisp System
Nurullah Akkaya has an interesting project, Ferret, that compiles a Lisp dialect into C++. It’s very portable and can compile code not only for the major platforms but for embedded systems as well. Basically anything that can support C++ can … Continue reading
The Past Comes Around Again
Many (many) years ago in the age of MS-DOS when Unix on the PC was still a dream, there was an editor called Brief. It was far and away the best editor available for DOS. It was fast, had multiple … Continue reading
Emacs Podcast #3
Rakhim Davletkaliyev is back with another Emacs podcast. As I said in my first post about his podcasts, using a podcast to discuss Emacs may seem odd but it actually works pretty well. Davletkaliyev starts by telling us what’s changed … Continue reading
Karl Voit on Security
Karl Voit has an useful post on good password security practices. There’s not really anything new in the post but it brings together most of the best practices in a single place. The main problem is that you no longer … Continue reading
Use The Profiler!
For the last year, Matus Goljer (fuco1) has been working on a static analyzer for Elisp. Although still in its early stages, the project is promising and I’ve been following it with interest. Goljer has made good progress and can … Continue reading
Emacs for the CEO, Part 2
Almost three years ago, I wrote about Josh Stella, a former programmer who had become the CEO of his company. Stella found that he really hated all the context switching required as he moved from application to application. So he … Continue reading