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Monthly Archives: August 2019
What Happened At Boeing?
As the dismal story of the Boeing 737 Max fiasco drags on, it’s worth taking a look at how the disaster happened. Boeing, after all, has been around since 1916—to put that in context, the Wright brothers made their famous … Continue reading
An Emacs Tale From Bizarro World
One of the most constant complaints about Emacs is its reliance on finger mangling key chords forever memorialized by the “Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift” backronym. Indeed, many Emacs users, including some Irreal regulars, use one of the vi emulation packages, evil, Spacemacs, or … Continue reading
Another Why I Use Emacs
Kasim Tuman has a nice blog post entitled Why Emacs in which he discusses why he likes Emacs and his strategy for getting the most out of it. His viewpoint is interesting and worth reading. Tuman thinks of Emacs as … Continue reading
Managing Dotfiles with Org
I’ve written before about the idea of combining your dotfiles into a single Org file and then tangling them out to their proper locations. That’s a nice solution because it provides an easy way to document what you’re doing and … Continue reading
Composability in Vim
To the uninitiated, Vim’s command set seems a mishmash of arbitrary letter sequences that don’t seem to make any sense. To make matters worse, there are a lot of them. The truth, though, is that the commands are very regular … Continue reading
Bayes’ Theorem and The Replication Crisis
I’ve written before about the replication crisis and the shockingly low reproducibility rates in scientific research. I’ve usually focused on psychology but sadly medicine is even worse. I’ve usually viewed these problems through the lens of reproducible research and have … Continue reading
Emacscalc Script
I’ve often written about how powerful and useful Emacs calc can be1. It is, I think, one of the most underrated features of Emacs. It’s a bit hard to learn, not because its default data entry mode is RPN but … Continue reading
Can A Programming Language Be Too Powerful?
After writing my post on Emacs and Igors, I reread Rudolf Winestock’s The Lisp Curse that Done mentioned in his article on why Emacs users are like the Igors. Winestock’s article, in turn, mentioned another that I’ve also read before, … Continue reading
Adversarial Interoperability
Over at boingboing, Cory Doctorow has an excellent essay on adversarial interoperability, or as he puts it, How about nah? The central theme of the piece is the idea that Web sites are offering a one sided deal: “Let us … Continue reading
Org Mode 9.2.5 Is Released
I’ve released #emacs #orgmode 9.2.5, a bugfix release. Enjoy! — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) August 1, 2019 Bastien says it’s a bug fix release so if you’re having any problems with Org you should consider updating.