Monthly Archives: March 2019

Privacy.io

Posted on 2019-03-31 by jcs

From John Cook’s Data Privacy Twitter feed we have this recommendation: How to protect your privacyhttps://t.co/4Os4OH1p7D — Data Privacy (@data_tip) March 14, 2019 If you’re at all interested in privacy, you should take a look at the PrivacyTools.io site. It … Continue reading →

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Custom Highlighting

Posted on 2019-03-30 by jcs

Last month someone pointed to this Emacs Notes post from last year and I thought some of you might find it handy. As the post points out, syntax highlighting can be a wonderful thing but sometimes you have a weird … Continue reading →

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An Analysis of Some Password Managers

Posted on 2019-03-29 by jcs

Over at the Independent Security Evaluators site they have an interesting article on the security of of several password managers. It’s virtually universal advice from security experts that you should use a password manager and the authors of the article … Continue reading →

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Open Offices Again

Posted on 2019-03-28 by jcs

I thought I was finished with writing about the horror known as Open Offices for a while but I just came across an article that so fully mirrors my feelings on the subject that I had to wade into the … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking in Emacs

Posted on 2019-03-27 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has posted an instructive article on benchmarking Elisp code. He had a theory on the run time of alternative implementations for some code he’d written and rather than wave his arms, he did what we all tell … Continue reading →

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Employees Hate Open Offices

Posted on 2019-03-26 by jcs

I’m not sure why I bother but here’s another report (from last year) belaboring the obvious: workers hate open office spaces. They hate them for all the obvious reasons: too much noise, lack of privacy, lack of ability to concentrate, … Continue reading →

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Vivek Haldar Reads “Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control”

Posted on 2019-03-25 by jcs

Last week, I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s reading of Dijkstra’s famous paper, “Go to Statement Considered Harmful.” It turns out that Haldar has a series of posts like that in which he reads a foundational paper from Computer Science. One … Continue reading →

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Taking Notes in LaTeX

Posted on 2019-03-24 by jcs

This is astounding. Gilles Castel uses LaTeX to take notes in his Math classes. These aren’t simple notes with a smattering of elementary math symbols; they’re notes for classes like Complex Variables and other advanced topics. Take a look at … Continue reading →

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Deleting Blank Lines

Posted on 2019-03-23 by jcs

The Learn Emacs Twitter feed has a handy tip for dealing with blank lines: Making & Deleting blank lines: If your point/cursor lies within several blank lines C-x C-o will delete all but one blank line, another C-x C-o will … Continue reading →

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Release Candidate 1 for Emacs 26.2 Is Out

Posted on 2019-03-22 by jcs

Nicolas Petton announced on the Emacs-Devel list that Emacs 26.2 RC1 is out. If you verify Nico’s signature—as you should—you’ll notice that GPG says the key has expired. As Nico explains, the key is still good but the GNU keychain … Continue reading →

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