Monthly Archives: July 2019

Emacs Users…

Posted on 2019-07-31 by jcs

I have been using Emacs for over 10 years and I have never meet another Emacs user. (and I work in tech) https://t.co/UuRrK8JTWb #Emacs — Emacs BOT (@emacsbot) July 29, 2019 The few, the proud, The Emacs Users!

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Emacs Users Are Igors

Posted on 2019-07-30 by jcs

The other day, I saw a tweet pointing at a post from 2013 by Chris Done. It was sort of interesting so I added it to my blog queue. Since then, I’ve seen several more tweets mentioning it so perhaps … Continue reading →

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MAlt: CERN Strikes a Blow for Open Source

Posted on 2019-07-29 by jcs

Microsoft has been a sleeping dragon lately. Those who haven’t been around for more than, say, 10 years probably don’t remember how ferocious and predatory they were. Still, to mangle a metaphor, the dragon hasn’t really changed his scales. For … Continue reading →

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Building an Emacs Mode to Improve Your Workflow

Posted on 2019-07-28 by jcs

Adrien Brochard gave an excellent talk to the New York Emacs Meetup in which he demonstrates how to build an Emacs major mode to improve a workflow. Brochard is working with Kubernetes and would like a way to look at—or … Continue reading →

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The Pros and Cons of Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-27 by jcs

Darwin Wu has an interesting post on the pros and cons of Emacs. I disagree with some of his conclusions but he does a good job of presenting a balanced view. As for the disagreements, I don’t say I’m right … Continue reading →

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An Org/Hugo Workflow for Blogging

Posted on 2019-07-26 by jcs

Lots of bloggers are electing to generate static sites instead of relying on a CMS like Blogger or WordPress. It’s an attractive option and one that I would probably pursue if I didn’t have so much invested in WordPress. All … Continue reading →

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Minimalism

Posted on 2019-07-25 by jcs

As I wrote in my Ten Years post, I’ve become interested in leveraging my digital life style as a way of further simplifying my life. My post on everyday carry is an example of this: searching for ways to minimize … Continue reading →

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The Holy War

Posted on 2019-07-24 by jcs

After writing yesterday’s post on Vim vs. Emacs, I serendipitously saw a tweet pointing at the Wikipedia article on the Editor War. It describes our holiest of holy wars and gives a pretty thorough analysis of both sides’ views. The … Continue reading →

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Vim vs. Emacs

Posted on 2019-07-23 by jcs

One of our longest standing holy wars is Emacs versus Vim. I’ve been around long enough that I’ve seen all the jokes and memes. Seen them over and over again, in fact. At this point, I doubt anyone is even … Continue reading →

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The First Rule

Posted on 2019-07-22 by jcs

For many years I had the good fortune to work with a small team of very talented software engineers. The team stayed together across many jobs working for many different companies. Our work was always related to computer networking and … Continue reading →

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