Monthly Archives: September 2018

Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform

Posted on 2018-09-20 by jcs

I’ve been seeing a lot of references to Christoffer Stjernlöf’s (slightly old) post on Two Wrong about Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform. It seems to me to offer a nice coda to my two posts on ancient … Continue reading →

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Things I Don’t Miss

Posted on 2018-09-19 by jcs

I just upgraded to Safari 12.0. I’ve been looking forward to it because Apple has greatly expanded the anti-tracking measures in the new Safari. Apparently the extension framework has changed because one of my extensions was deleted and the other … Continue reading →

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Finding Happiness with an Ancient Editor

Posted on 2018-09-18 by jcs

Apropos of yesterday’s post on learning ancient editors, tareefdev has a post on the Emacs subreddit on why and how he moved from one of those “modern” electron-based editors to Emacs. His problem was a simple one: he had a … Continue reading →

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Why Learn Those Ancient Editors?

Posted on 2018-09-17 by jcs

I went back and forth over whether I should embed the following tweet or just extract the quote from it. My remarks are about its contents and not the tweeter, who I don’t know and is probably a fine person … Continue reading →

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Little Languages

Posted on 2018-09-16 by jcs

Last month, I wrote about one of John Bentley’s Programming Pearls columns in the Communication of the ACM. Someone has posted another column, this one on Little Languages. I remember reading the column in More Programming Pearls; it instilled in … Continue reading →

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Org Capture

Posted on 2018-09-15 by jcs

I’ve seen some questions lately asking if it’s worthwhile to learn Org mode. Regular readers will have no doubt as to my answer but I stumbled across a nice post from Charles Cave on how he uses Org capture, templates, … Continue reading →

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Sorry for the Bad Formatting

Posted on 2018-09-14 by jcs

I just noticed that Wednesday’s post on the Emacs/ImageMagick interface was formatted with embedded newlines. That means a certain amount of pain for those of you trying to read the post on your phones or other small-screened mobile devices. Sorry. … Continue reading →

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Beorg Review

Posted on 2018-09-13 by jcs

One of the frustrations for Org mode users is getting access to their data on mobile devices. The situation is a little better in the Android world, where one can run Emacs on their phones but on iOS the choices … Continue reading →

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Emacs ImageMagick Interface

Posted on 2018-09-12 by jcs

If you’re in the intersection of Emacs and ImageMagick users, Blimp may interest you. It’s an Emacs interface to the ImageMagick commands. Take a look at the README on GitHub to see how it works and what it can do. … Continue reading →

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Norvig’s Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming Open Sourced

Posted on 2018-09-11 by jcs

If you have any Lisp experience at all, you almost certainly know about Peter Norvig’s classic Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (PAIP). It’s an excellent introduction to Lisp and, of course, Artificial Intelligence. Via Rainer Joswig we learn that PAIP … Continue reading →

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