Monthly Archives: January 2019

Mobile Carriers and Your Location Information

Posted on 2019-01-11 by jcs

If you’re a fan of cop shows and the like, you undoubtedly know that the police can ask your mobile carrier for a record of your location information. Mostly, they’re supposed to get a warrant but often the phone companies … Continue reading →

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Moving from C++ to C

Posted on 2019-01-10 by jcs

I’ve written before about not being a fan of C++. I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I think it’s a terrible language that removed most useful aspects of C while keeping C’s problems. Partly, I suppose, that’s because I’m … Continue reading →

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Anaconda and Emacs

Posted on 2019-01-09 by jcs

Just a quickie for today. I keep seeing questions about how to use Emacs with Python. Here’s a short post by Devji Chhanga that gives a step-by-step installation process for integrating Anaconda and Emacs. Note that Chhanga’s post has a … Continue reading →

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Second Pretest for Emacs 26.2

Posted on 2019-01-08 by jcs

Nicolas Petton writes that the emacs-26.1.91, the second pretest for emacs 26.2, is out. I compiled and installed it last night and am using it as my working Emacs. I have less than a day’s experience with it so far … Continue reading →

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Making Poet

Posted on 2019-01-07 by jcs

In a nice coda to my recent recent post on the Poet Theme, Kunal Bhalla has published a post, Making Poet, an Emacs theme, on how he developed the theme and added monochrome and dark versions of it. Because he … Continue reading →

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Our Government in Action

Posted on 2019-01-06 by jcs

Five years ago, I wrote a series of posts [1, 2, 3, 4] on the U.S. Government’s actions against Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian architect who had just completed her PhD at Stanford. You can read the details in the … Continue reading →

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Generating RSS with Org-mode

Posted on 2019-01-05 by jcs

In my Blogging with Emacs Only post, I noted that the solution under discussion didn’t include a way of generating an RSS feed. Details like that are one of the reasons that solutions involving blogging frameworks like Hugo make a … Continue reading →

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Multiline Fontification

Posted on 2019-01-04 by jcs

The invaluable fuco1 solves a problem that I’ve stumbled upon in the past: how can you make org-mode emphasis markup—things like italics, bold, etc.—span more than two lines1. I almost never need to do this so I’ve spent zero thought … Continue reading →

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John Weigley on Magit

Posted on 2019-01-03 by jcs

John Weigley has an excellent video on using Magit. It’s very comprehensive and the content is quite dense so you may want to watch it more than once. He covers the usual easy commands that everybody uses but also some … Continue reading →

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Blogging with Emacs Only

Posted on 2019-01-02 by jcs

As most of you know, I enjoy reading about other bloggers’ workflows. I especially like workflows that use only Emacs and Org mode without any third-party tools. In Yesterday’s post, I promised to write about Diego Vicente’s Emacs-only blogging workflow. … Continue reading →

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