Monthly Archives: April 2020

Red Meat Friday: Is Emacs A Small Editor?

Posted on 2020-04-10 by jcs

I did a double take when I saw this tweet: I prefer small editors for programming like #emacs instead of fat and slow Java-IDEs. That is so true: https://t.co/Ic8RljDOmn — Daniel Gerlach (@gerlacdt) April 6, 2020 As everyone here knows, … Continue reading →

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Date Ranges

Posted on 2020-04-09 by jcs

I may have written about this before but this tweet: In Org-mode you can easily calculate difference between timestamps: – use C-! to enter timestamps – Place “–” between them (to make it a range) – C-c C-y (bound to … Continue reading →

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Emacs is a Well-Honed Tool

Posted on 2020-04-08 by jcs

Eamonn Sullivan has a post that describes Emacs as A Well-Honed Tool. If you’re an Emacs user, your immediate response is probably, “Well, yeah!” but Sullivan’s point is more than just Emacs is a great editor. There is, as he … Continue reading →

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Hardware Microphone Interlock

Posted on 2020-04-07 by jcs

Here’s a good idea. Apple laptops with the T2 security chip have a hardware interlock that turns off the microphone when the cover is closed. Apple stresses that the interlock is hardware based and can not be disabled by software. … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs as a Python IDE

Posted on 2020-04-06 by jcs

If you follow the Emacs scene, one of the questions you see all the time is how to configure Emacs as a Python IDE. Emacs, of course, offers rudimentary support for Python but that consists mostly of syntax highlighting and … Continue reading →

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Schneier on Zoom Security

Posted on 2020-04-05 by jcs

The COVID-19 pandemic is having many unexpected consequences. One of those consequences is to bring the Zoom video conferencing platform to the attention of almost everyone. Zoom appears to have the best-in-class video conferencing software as far as video and … Continue reading →

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An Annotated Bibliography with Org Mode

Posted on 2020-04-04 by jcs

Gregory Stein, over at Caches to Caches, has a great post on a novel application of Org Mode. Stein is an academic who reads a lot of papers. It’s important for a researcher to not only read the latest research … Continue reading →

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Ten Tips for Getting Started With Emacs

Posted on 2020-04-03 by jcs

Over at Opensource.com, Seth Kenlon an interesting post on 10 tips for getting started with Emacs. There are a couple of items I disagree with but most of the post is good advice. His first piece of advice is to … Continue reading →

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New Image on Blog Page

Posted on 2020-04-02 by jcs

Anyone who’s been around here for more than a day will recognize that Irreal now has an image at the top of the page. That’s because I just got a theme update and now’s there a big empty (framed) spot … Continue reading →

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Using Notion as a Zettelkasten

Posted on 2020-04-01 by jcs

The other day I was checking Ali Abdaal’s You Tube feed for new videos and I happened to see an older video that I’d watched earlier. It was about how Abdaal uses Notion as a resonance calendar. When I first … Continue reading →

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