Monthly Archives: February 2020

Red Alert

Posted on 2020-02-18 by jcs

Last night, I managed to spill my beverage of choice onto my laptop. As McCoy would say, “It’s dead Jim.” Until I can replace it (probably tomorrow) and download my backups (who knows how long that will take) Irreal will … Continue reading →

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Regular Expressions in 30 Lines of C

Posted on 2020-02-17 by jcs

I recently saw a pointer to a nice article by Brian Kernighan that describes some beautiful code written by Rob Pike for their book The Practice of Programming. As an example of the power of notation, they wanted to show … Continue reading →

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Dark-Mode vs. Light-Mode Again

Posted on 2020-02-16 by jcs

You’d think this would be dead horse by now but we always have fun with it when I post on the issue so here’s another episode. Via Kontra we have an article by Raluca Budiu on whether light-mode or dark-mode … Continue reading →

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Emacs Variables

Posted on 2020-02-15 by jcs

Emacs variables are at once both easier and more difficult than in other languages. On the one hand, Emacs variables are typeless so you can put whatever you like in them and even use the same variable to hold different … Continue reading →

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When Will They Ever Learn?

Posted on 2020-02-14 by jcs

Jacob Eisenstein is wondering at the madness that has overtaken the academic world. He wonders why in the world they are depending on someone else’s computer and SaaS to do one of their most important jobs: writing and publishing papers. … Continue reading →

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Org 9.3.6

Posted on 2020-02-13 by jcs

Bastien lets us know that Org 9.3.6 has been released: #emacs #orgmode 9.3.6, a bugfix release, is out. Enjoy! The next release will be 9.4, with new features. Coming soon. — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) February 13, 2020 It’s another bug … Continue reading →

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How To Start a Common Lisp Project

Posted on 2020-02-12 by jcs

As I mentioned the other day, I haven’t been using Common Lisp much lately so I was a little rusty when I wrote my A Palindrome Predicate Coda post. It’s not that I forgot the Lisp itself, that’s sufficiently like … Continue reading →

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Emacs As a Terminal IDE

Posted on 2020-02-11 by jcs

Palmer Cluff has an interesting post that makes the case for Emacs as a terminal-based IDE. We usually think of IDEs as having a GUI, lots of buttons and menus and of being mouse intensive. Cluff says it doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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Bastien’s Org-mode Tricks

Posted on 2020-02-10 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs scene, you’ve probably seen some references to Bastien Guerry’s post on Org-mode Features You May Not Know. There’s been several tweets about it and, of course, Sacha covered it in her Weekly Emacs News. If … Continue reading →

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Working Remotely at Ars Technica

Posted on 2020-02-09 by jcs

Over the next few weeks, Ars Technica will be running a series of articles on the future of work. They’ve started off with a long and detailed article on working remotely at Ars Technica. Actually, working at Ars Technica means … Continue reading →

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