Monthly Archives: April 2020

Degoogling

Posted on 2020-04-30 by jcs

Aaron Ogle has a couple of interesting posts on how and why he is degoogling his life. The why is just what you’d expect. He’s tired of having Google vacuum up all the data on his online activities. Like many … Continue reading →

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GNU Global

Posted on 2020-04-29 by jcs

As I’ve said before, I’m not a big fan of TAGS systems for navigating source files They never seemed to do what I needed and I worried about having to keep the TAGS files up to date. All that ceased … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Stirs the Pot on Spaces After a Period

Posted on 2020-04-28 by jcs

Recently, Microsoft reignited the long standing debate on the proper number of spaces after a period by having Word flag two spaces as an error and offering to fix it. John Gruber over at Daring Fireball is not impressed. He … Continue reading →

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Using Elfeed

Posted on 2020-04-27 by jcs

Regular readers know that I’m a big fan of Elfeed for reading my RSS feeds from the comfort of Emacs. It has great searching and filtering capabilities so I can even find old, already read entries if I need to. … Continue reading →

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The Org Code Edit Buffer

Posted on 2020-04-26 by jcs

I use the Org-mode code editing buffer all the time either for adding some code to a post or for embedding a tweet or video. When I’m writing a blog post, I always have two windows displayed. On the left … Continue reading →

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The Corona Virus and Digital Wallets

Posted on 2020-04-25 by jcs

In a nice coda to my post on The Corona Virus and the Cashless Society, C/net has an interesting article speculating that COVID-19 will advance the uptake of digital wallets from companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon. The article is … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: The Best Editor

Posted on 2020-04-24 by jcs

Today’s Red Meat Friday offering is from Steve Purcell. It’s his pinned tweet: Emacs is the best editor. https://t.co/9uTyGsSxKo — Steve Purcell 🇪🇺 (@sanityinc) November 30, 2019 To some of us, this is completely obvious but others may find it … Continue reading →

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The Corona Virus and the Cashless Society

Posted on 2020-04-23 by jcs

Back in 2019, Jason Perlow wrote an article on the coming cashless society. In it, he bemoans having to carry a wallet and keys and all the rest of it. I understand his frustration because it echoes my own. Like … Continue reading →

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Learning Emacs With Macros

Posted on 2020-04-22 by jcs

Sahas Subramanian has started a series of Emacs tutorial videos with the novel idea of teaching Emacs through the use of macros. The first video demonstrates the utility of keyboard macros by using them to solve a simple problem. The … Continue reading →

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The Git lab Remote Work Report

Posted on 2020-04-21 by jcs

Gitlab has a report of a survey they did on remote work. It an interesting survey that includes a wide range of occupations where the work product is some sort of digital output. The report gives a nice summary of … Continue reading →

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