Monthly Archives: August 2018

Emacs Podcast

Posted on 2018-08-11 by jcs

Rakhim Davletkaliyev is a new Emacs user who has decided to document his journey into the world of Emacs with a series of podcasts. Using a podcast for this might seem like an odd choice given that the subject matter … Continue reading →

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The Machine that Builds Itself

Posted on 2018-08-10 by jcs

Bohdan Khomtchouk, Edi Weitz, and Claes Wahlestedt have an interesting paper that argues for the use of Common Lisp in bioinformatics and computational biology. Lispers will recognize Weitz from his many contributions of outstanding Lisp packages, including the unrivaled CL-PPCRE … Continue reading →

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Another Emacs/Vim Survey

Posted on 2018-08-09 by jcs

If you care about this sort of thing, there’s (yet another) survey on whether folks prefer Emacs, Vim, or something else. I wouldn’t bother linking if it were just another “what do you prefer” quickie but the poll asks additional … Continue reading →

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Keyboard Macros: A Reason to Use Emacs

Posted on 2018-08-08 by jcs

Bill over at ATMakers has a short video on Why I Use Emacs. He’s a long term user and the reasons are many, he says, but the video is just one example showing how Emacs can make repetitive tasks easier. … Continue reading →

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Solving 10 Common Git Problems

Posted on 2018-08-07 by jcs

Michael Kohl has a post on 10 Common Git Problems and How to Fix Them that new or casual Git users may find useful. There’s a lot of useful information in the post so it’s definitely worth reading. Unfortunately, for … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs at School

Posted on 2018-08-06 by jcs

Over at the Emacs reddit, shackra asks if people use or used Emacs at school. By “school” he appears to mean “at college or university” so this isn’t about whether we should teach 8th graders to use Emacs. So far, … Continue reading →

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Diceware Video

Posted on 2018-08-05 by jcs

The idea of choosing a list of common words as a password is fairly common and can lead to very secure passwords if the selection process is done randomly. The idea entered popular culture with the famous XKCD correct horse … Continue reading →

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Now: Open Offices; Next: No Offices

Posted on 2018-08-04 by jcs

Over at Second Nexus there’s an article that discusses the Harvard Study on open office spaces that I wrote about previously. If you missed that post, the TL;DR is that the study showed that far from improving collaboration, open offices … Continue reading →

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A GTD Workflow with Emacs and Org Mode

Posted on 2018-08-03 by jcs

I’ve never bought in to the GTD (Getting Things Done) movement although my own system of scheduling, tracking, and recording tasks probably has a lot in common with the methodology. One often sees the claim that Org mode makes an … Continue reading →

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When Advertising Is Not Advertising

Posted on 2018-08-02 by jcs

Nicholas Rempel has an excellent rant on what passes for advertising these days with the post What We Have Now Is Not Advertising. His thesis is that while things like billboards, TV ads, and magazine ads are advertising, much of … Continue reading →

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