Monthly Archives: January 2019

Glass Panel Keyboards

Posted on 2019-01-31 by jcs

This post may seem Apple-centric but it’s not. Even though it’s Apple that is patenting this idea, it’s the technology itself that I find interesting and want to discuss. According to AppleInsider, Apple has applied for a patent on replacing … Continue reading →

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Howard Abrams’ GTD Workflow

Posted on 2019-01-30 by jcs

Howard Abrams is rethinking his GTD workflow and has written a three part post that describes his evolving scheme. The first part is here; there are links to the next part in each post. The basic idea is that every … Continue reading →

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Zamansky 56: Dictionaries and Thesauri

Posted on 2019-01-29 by jcs

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about dictionary and thesaurus apps for Emacs. Like many of us—or, perhaps, most of us—Zamansky uses Emacs for almost every chore that involves text: he reads … Continue reading →

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The Emacs C API

Posted on 2019-01-28 by jcs

As you probably know, Emacs now has a C API that allows you to write extensions in C or any language that provides C bindings. Via Wilfred Hughes we have a pointer to this excellent documentation on how to use … Continue reading →

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Freeing Space on Your Mac Development Machine

Posted on 2019-01-27 by jcs

This post is nominally specific to Mac users but the same techniques, mutatis mutandis, could be used by developers on Linux and perhaps even Windows. It’s a commonplace today that disk space is cheap and that we can operate—to a … Continue reading →

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Having Org Notes Buffer Inherit Its Input Method

Posted on 2019-01-26 by jcs

When it comes to eliminating workflow friction, few do it better than Matus Goljer (Fuco1). His latest post describes a fix for a problem that I didn’t even know existed: When Org pops up a log note buffer (after a … Continue reading →

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Moving to Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-25 by jcs

Continuing yesterday’s theme of moving to Emacs, let’s discuss some ways of easing the transition. Nikhil Soni has a nice post that describes how he got Emacs to provide the features he was used to from editors like VSCode, Atom, … Continue reading →

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Why You Should Buy Into Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-24 by jcs

Christoffer Stjernlöf over at Two Wrongs has a very well done post on Why You Should Buy Into the Emacs Platform. Posts on “Why I moved to Emacs” are common, of course, but Stjernlöf has written a comprehensive post that … Continue reading →

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Does Behavioral Advertising Even Work?

Posted on 2019-01-23 by jcs

Techcrunch has published an excellent article that explores the case against adtech. It’s remarkably fair and balanced but concludes that the case against behavioral advertising is stacking up. One of their key pieces of evidence is that the New York … Continue reading →

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Test Drive Programming Fonts

Posted on 2019-01-22 by jcs

Programmers, it seems, are always looking for the perfect programming font. Years ago, I settled on Inconsolata and haven’t looked back. A lot of that is probably laziness: it can be a pain to track down fonts to see what … Continue reading →

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