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Monthly Archives: June 2020
A New Take on the Emacs Tutorial
Over at Emacs Notes there’s a post offerng a new take on the built-in Emacs Tutorial. There’s nothing special about the default tutorial. It’s merely a file describing Emacs functionality. It’s interactive, sort of, in that you can edit the … Continue reading
Protecting Yourself from Surveillance
Jesse McGraw knows a few things about black hat hacking. He was a participant himself and was convicted of corrupting industrial control systems. Over at Forklog he has an interesting article on some steps you can take to protect yourself … Continue reading
Selective Display
Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a post that reminds me of a useful command that I always forget about: selective-display. Borkowski uses it to make working with some large JSON files easier. Take a look at his post for the details. … Continue reading
Facebook and Whois
I don’t write about Facebook very often because many people that I care about are—inexplicably—Facebook devotees and if I wrote about Facebook to the extent warranted, I would likely alienate my friends and loved ones. Still, sometimes Facebook’s behavior is … Continue reading
Some Org Table Examples
John Herrlin has another nice post. This time it’s on using Org-mode tables. Like his post on Org source blocks, he concentrates on examples of how he, himself, uses Org tables. Both of his posts take, I think, an intermediate … Continue reading
Org Source Blocks
One of the great things about Emacs is Org-mode. One of the great things about Org-mode is source blocks. They enable literate programming, of course, but are also a great way of taking notes with code examples and a really … Continue reading
Privacy Pirates
Everybody—especially readers of Irreal—knows that our browsing habits and Web activities are being vacuumed up by the malignant Adtech industry but you probably have no idea of how out of control they are. Techcrunch has a terrifying and infuriating article … Continue reading
On Amazon and Walmart
I like Walmart. They have a wide selection of products that are easy to find and have prices that are lower than many other stores such as the local supermarket. But I hate going there. The aisles are crowded usually … Continue reading
Using an ODT Style Sheet With Org Mode
Over at the Emacs Notes blog there’s an interesting tutorial on how to style ODT output when exporting from Org-mode. The tutorial uses the “problem” of producing a manuscript for a novel. That’s a good example because literary publishers like … Continue reading
Emacs: The Editor for All Seasons
Derek Taylor is a Linux vlogger who was, apparently, undecided between Emacs and Vim. He likes them both, and he and I are in agreement that they are the two editors for serious developers. He’s been using Emacs more lately—although … Continue reading