Monthly Archives: August 2019

Open Office Sanity Strategies

Posted on 2019-08-31 by jcs

I keep resolving to stop writing about open office spaces. Even though I’ve never suffered having to work in one, I find their use almost as infuriating as I do the government’s illegal surveillance. Sadly, the madness goes on, I … Continue reading →

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The Remote Work Report

Posted on 2019-08-30 by jcs

Over at FYI they have an interesting report on working remotely. The number one takeaway, I suppose, is that almost everyone loves working remotely. If you’re one of those people who do, it’s hard to see why someone wouldn’t love … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.3 Released

Posted on 2019-08-29 by jcs

Nicolas Petton has announced that Emacs 26.3 has been released and is available for download. I always compile mine by hand so I have no idea if the prebuilt binaries have appeared yet but compilation—even on the Mac—is simple and … Continue reading →

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Seven Bash Tips

Posted on 2019-08-28 by jcs

Carrying on with yesterday’s theme of Bash hackery, I present to you Ian Miell’s Seven God-Like Bash History Shortcuts You Will Actually Use. If you’re anything like me, you read one of these articles and think, “Wow! That’s really neat. … Continue reading →

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Emacs For a Single Line of Text

Posted on 2019-08-27 by jcs

What if you could use Emacs to edit the command line? Wouldn’t that be great? Well, of course, you can. Not only can but almost certainly do. I’m not talking about invoking Emacs from Bash with Ctrl+x Ctrl+e; I’m talking … Continue reading →

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Scroll All Mode

Posted on 2019-08-26 by jcs

From Wilfred Hughes’ Emacs Command of the Day Twitter feed, we have this useful tip: Do you have two buffers visible where you want to scroll both of them at once? scroll-all-mode allows you to move the same amount in … Continue reading →

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Google on Tracking

Posted on 2019-08-25 by jcs

If you’re like me, you’re apt to suspect that anything Google has to say about adtech and tracking is likely to be self-serving nonsense but when they make the claim that blocking cookies is bad for privacy you’d be excused … Continue reading →

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Paul Ford on Uses This

Posted on 2019-08-24 by jcs

Ever since I stumbled upon it back in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of Uses This (nee The Setup), which features short interviews with tech or creative people. Each interview is the same in that they ask the identical … Continue reading →

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Emacs 26.3-RC1

Posted on 2019-08-23 by jcs

I didn’t even know there were plans for an Emacs 26.3 but there are and the first release candidate is available. If you don’t want to live on the edge enough to be running the development version of Emacs 27.1, … Continue reading →

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A Real World Use Case of Occur

Posted on 2019-08-22 by jcs

Protesilaos Stavrou has posted a very nice video on using editable occur to solve a real life editing problem. The basic strategy is to use occur to locate all the occurrences of the problem to be fixed, type e in … Continue reading →

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